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Volume 4 Five Major Judgments

by Ernest Angley

Subject: Sheep nations and goat nations

Time: 3rd coming, end of Battle of Armageddon

Place: Earth

Reason for judgment: Treatment of Jews

October 1991
Results: Goat nations destroyed; sheep nations remain

When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the
Topics: Judgments
holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of
his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations:
and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from
the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left
(Matthew 25:31-33). Three groups are involved in this judgment: the sheep nations, the goat
nations and the Jews. Jesus did not count the Jews with the other nations but called them
brethren. When Jesus takes His place on the throne of glory, He will first judge the nations, all
nations on the basis of their dealings with the Jews. Just as a shepherd divides the sheep from the
goats, the Lord will divide the nations. The sheep nations (those nations supporting the Jews) will
go to the right; the goat nations (those nations fighting against the Jews) to the left.

Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father,
inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an
hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger,
and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in
prison, and ye came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord,
when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When
saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw

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we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? And the King shall answer and say
unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of
these my brethren, ye have done it unto me (Matthew 25:34-40).

To those who did not care for the brethren Jews: Then shall he say also unto them on the left
hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his
angels. Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an
hungered, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, an did not minister
unto thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye
did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into
everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal (Matthew 25:41,44-46).

Mistreating the brethren Jews is the same as mistreating Jesus. God has already judged nations
and kingdoms for this. Under Pharaoh, the Israelites were in great bondage; and God raised up
Moses to deliver them. Let my people go! Moses told Pharaoh. And Pharaoh commanded the
same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, Ye shall no more
give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for
themselves. And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay
upon them; ye shall not diminish aught thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry,
saying Let us go and sacrifice to our God. Let there more work be laid upon the men
(Exodus 5:6-9). At this point of Jewish persecution, God began to send His judgments.

In Exodus 7:20,21, we read that Moses and Aaron did so, as the Lord commanded; and he
lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh,
and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned
to blood. And the fish that was in the river died, and the river stank, and the
Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was blood throughout
all the land of Egypt.

Pharaoh didn't relent when the waters were turned into blood, and so God sent a plague of frogs.
In Exodus 8 we learn how this plague was to affect the Egyptians: And the river shall bring
forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy
bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy
people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneading troughs: And the frogs shall come
up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants (Exodus 8:3,4). Aaron
stretched out his rod over the waters, and frogs came up to cover the land. But Pharaoh's heart was

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hardened.

God sent another plague: Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod and smote the dust of
the earth and it became lice in man and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice
throughout all the land of Egypt (Exodus 8:17). This is God at work, God giving judgment to a
nation.

Pharaoh's heart remained hardened to God and the Israelites. The next judgment fell. And there
came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants'
houses, and into all the land of Egypt; the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm
of flies. And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time, also, neither would he let the
people go (Exodus 8:24,32).

Because Pharaoh would not let the Israelites go, more calamities fell: Behold, the hand of the
Lord is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the
camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain.
And the Lord did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the
cattle of the children of Israel died not one (Exodus 9:3,6). God's judgment of plagues.

Pharaoh's heart was still hardened. And the Lord said unto Moses and unto Aaron, take to
you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in
the sight of Pharaoh. And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall
be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast, throughout all the
land of Egypt (Exodus 9:8,9). The Lord was bringing great suffering—curses, not blessings. God
can be as angry as He is loving and kind. Recording His judgments that fell in Bible days, God
wanted to be sure we would believe the judgments to come.

God rained down hail on the Egyptians: Moses told them it was to come. Behold, to morrow
about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in
Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now. And Moses stretched forth his rod
toward heaven: and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the

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ground; and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt. So there was hail, and fire
mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of
Egypt since it became a nation (Exodus 9:18,23,24). God's judgment of plagues.

Locusts came. And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD
brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was
morning, the east wind brought the locusts. And the locusts went up over all the land
of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them
there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such. For they covered
the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb
of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained
not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of
Egypt (Exodus 10:13-15). This judgment is a small foretaste of the judgment of plagues the Lord
will rain down in the Tribulation Period. God is warning that He will do all He has promised in the
book of Revelation during the Jews' seventieth week.

But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of
Israel go. And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that
there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt. And
Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all
the land of Egypt three days: They saw not one another, neither rose any from his
place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings (Exodus
10:20-23). God has all power. On the Egyptians came darkness that could be felt, and on the
Israelites, light. Nothing is impossible with God, but man is so deceived today that he thinks God
can do no more than a man. The Egyptians became believers in God's power by the time God had
finished with them. They believed that God was God, and Pharaoh had to declare it.

The time is coming when every knee with have to bow to God and every tongue confess that Jesus
Christ is the Son of God.

And the LORD said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and
upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall
surely thrust you out hence altogether. And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About
midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt: And all the firstborn in the land of
Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto
the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of

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beasts. And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there
was none like it, nor shall be like it any more. But against any of the children of Israel
shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the
LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel (Exodus 11:1,4-7). God
remembered how the Egyptians killed the boy babies when Moses was born. God never got it out
of His system. Many things God has not gotten out of His system; and He will bring judgment
because of them, judgment upon the disobedient, the wicked, the sinful.

What a cry went forth in Egypt: death, death, death in every unprotected household! In the
Tribulation Period, the Bible tells us, death will ride freely upon the earth.

And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go
back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters
were divided And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry
ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst of the sea, even all
Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. And it came to pass, that in the
morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of
fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians, And took off their chariot
wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the
face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians. And the LORD
said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again
upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen. And Moses
stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the
morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the
Egyptians in the midst of the sea. And the waters returned, and covered the chariots,
and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there
remained not so much as one of them. But the children of Israel walked upon dry
land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand,
and on their left. Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the
Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore (Exodus 14:21-30).

After all the plagues, all the judgments, God destroyed the Egyptian army. This is a small picture of
what the Tribulation Period will be like when the waters of judgment close in to destroy nations in
the battle of Armageddon. God let the Egyptians go to the Red Sea, His place of judgment. In the
Tribulation Period, God will again bring the disobedient to His place of judgment. God rained
down plague judgments upon the human race in Old Testament days, and warns that judgment will
fall again. Just before the Egyptians drowned, they recognized God and His power, that He fought
for Israel against them. But it was too late for them.

How many of the Egyptians were destroyed in the Red Sea? All who had pursued the Israelites. In

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the Tribulation Period, God will destroy the goat nations, those who have mistreated the Jews.
Open your eyes. What God says He will do, He will do! For the Lord thy God is a consuming
fire, even a jealous God (Deuteronomy 4:24).

Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou
hast heard, and live (Deuteronomy 4:33)? You've had an experience, Israelites, and you had
better remember it. Remember God's love, remember that God delivered you, spoke to you. You
actually heard the voice of God speaking to you—and you lived. God took a nation from the midst
of another nation. Not since the time God created the Earth has such a thing been heard, or hath
God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by
temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a
stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did
for you in Egypt before your eyes? And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he
chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power
out of Egypt (Deuteronomy 4:34,37).

A mighty deliverance of one people prepared another people for further judgment. In our day,
God will give a mighty deliverance to His obedient Holy Spirit-filled people: The Rapture. And
then the thunder clouds of tribulation will close in. God is getting ready for another judgment.
Nations will come against the Jews, but the Lord will fight for them again just as He fought for
Israel against the nation of Egypt.

God told Israel He would drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than
thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day
(Deuteronomy 4:38). God drove out seven nations and gave the land to the Jewish people. On
seven nations God brought judgment.

God loved Israel so much, upheld them to the extent that in one battle the sun stood still, and
the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not
this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and
hasted not to go down about a whole day. And there was no day like that before it or
after it, that the Lord hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the Lord fought for Israel
(Joshua 10:13,14). What victory, what power God gave the Jews!

Five kings of five nations fled before Israel and hid themselves in a cave. And Joshua said, Roll
great stones upon the mouth of the cave, and set men by it for to keep them. Then
said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out those five kings unto me out

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of the cave (Joshua 10:18,22). Is Joshua going to forgive them? What will he do? Joshua did just
what God wanted done. And Joshua said unto them [the Jews], Fear not, nor be
dismayed, be strong and of good courage; for thus shall the Lord do to all your
enemies against whom ye fight. And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them,
and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the
evening (Joshua 10: 25,26). This is the judgment of God for leaders of wicked nations. He
destroys them. God is a God of judgment as well as a God of love. Those who won't accept His love
will face His judgment.

We read in the book of Esther that God placed the judgment of death on a man called Haman
because he tried to destroy the Jewish people. Haman had promised to pay to the king's
treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them (Esther 4:7). Haman, no doubt, was a wealthy man,
and he offered to pay the king for the destruction of the Jews. What the king didn't know, however,
was that Queen Esther was a Jewish girl. Her kinsman, Mordecai, gave one of the king's
chamberlains the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy
them, to shew it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she
should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him and to make request before
him for her people (Esther 4:8).

Esther know that it meant death if she went in before the king unbidden and he did not hold out
the golden scepter to her. The king had not called for her in thirty days, and she was determined to
approach him. If I perish, I perish, she said (Esther 4:16). In order to save her people, Queen
Esther, her maidens, and the Jews in Shushan fasted three days, When she approached the king
she received his favor. "What is your petition?" he asked. And Esther answered, If it seem
good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I
have prepared for him (Esther 5:4). The king agreed, and Haman was invited to the banquet
where again the king promised her petition would be granted, even to half his kingdom. Esther
then invited Haman and the king to a banquet the next evening. Delighted, Haman left; but seeing
Esther's kinsman ruined his mood to the extent his wife and friends suggested that he build a
gallows for Mordecai.

That night the king couldn't sleep, and he commanded the book of records to be read. In the
reading, he discovered that Esther's kinsman had uncovered a plot against him. He found further
that no reward had been given. Now Haman came bustling into the court to speak to the king
about hanging Esther's kinsman. Before he could say anything the king asked, What shall be
done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his
heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself? And
Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour, Let the
royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king
rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head: And let this apparel and
horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may

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array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on
horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be
done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour (Esther 6:6-9).

Imagine Haman's shock when he realized the king was talking about honoring the very man he was
plotting to kill! Not only that, the king asked Haman to be the one to bestow honor on Mordecai
the Jew.

When these things were done, the king's chamberlains hurried Haman off to the banquet Esther
had prepared. Again, the king asked Esther what her petition was. Esther the queen answered
and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life
be given me at my petition, and my people at my request: For we are sold, I and my
people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for
bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not
countervail the king's damage. Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto
Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do
so? And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman
was afraid before the king and the queen. And the king arising from the banquet of
wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request
for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him
by the king. Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the
banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther was. Then said
the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out
of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face. And Harbonah, one of the
chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which
Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth in the
house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon. So they hanged Haman on
the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
(Esther 7:3-10).

But the damage put into motion by the king's decree had to be undone. Letters had been sent into
all the king's provinces to destroy, to kill and to cause to perish all Jews, both young and old,
women and children. The king couldn't undo the decree, but he could add to it. He gave the Jews
the privilege to protect themselves. The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities
throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought
their hurt: and no man could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon all
people. Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and
slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them
(Esther 9:2,5). To remember this great victory, the Jews every year celebrate the days of Purim.

God has fought for the Jews again and again. We read in Isaiah of the time God sent an angel to kill

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185,000 soldiers of the enemies of God. Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote
in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when
they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses (Isaiah 37:36). That
ended that war. The remaining army departed before they were slain, too.

God had warned the Israelites not to worship the gods of the nations they had driven out of the
Promised Land instead of the true and living God, but they didn't obey. God was angry. Babylon
invaded the Holy Land. The king of Babylon destroyed the holy temple of God, carrying away all
the valuables, burning the rest, leaving the land desolate.

Even then God did not forget the Jews. Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will raise up against
Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a
destroying wind; And will send unto Babylon fanners that shall fan her, and shall
empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about
(Jeremiah 51:1,2). That is exactly what happened. The Medes and Persians took over Babylon.
The walls around the city of Babylon were so thick that three chariots could run abreast on top of
it. It also was high. No enemy, they thought, could ever penetrate that wall. But God saw to it that
the city was taken. Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be
not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the Lord's vengeance; he will render
unto her a recompense (Jeremiah 51:6).

What Babylon did to Israel would be avenged; God rendered unto her a recompense.

We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every
one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up
even to the skies. Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the Lord hath raised up
the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it;
because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple (Jeremiah 51:9,11).

God didn't forget that the Babylonians had destroyed His temple, the house that was built to honor
and glorify His name. God had ordered what was to be in that house, every vessel, every design.
But the king of Babylon had carried them away. Behold, I am against thee, O destroying
mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine
hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt
mountain. And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for
foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the Lord (Jeremiah 51:25,26).
And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the Lord shall be
performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an
inhabitant. And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an

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astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant (Jeremiah 51:29,37). Before these

things took place, God foretold them.

Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of
Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the
midst of her. As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall
the slain of all the earth (Jeremiah 51:47,49). Babylon killed the Jews, and God foretold the
judgment that would fall because of it.

Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height
of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the Lord (Jeremiah
51:53). No matter how strong Babylon became, God would send spoilers; God would bring her
down.

Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice;
when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered: Because
the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken,
every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompenses shall surely
requite (Jeremiah 51:55,56). Babylon would be desolate forever. Then shalt thou say, O
LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it,
neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever. And it shall be, when
thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast
it into the midst of Euphrates: And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall
not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are
the words of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 51:62-64).

Prophecy after prophecy in the Old Testament has been fulfilled, and those that haven't soon will
be. We live in a day we can look back in history and see that the fulfillment of these prophecies has
taken place in Egypt, in Babylon.

God has also prophesied about Russia. She has mistreated many of the Jewish people. Of all the
nations holding to the Jewish people, none have held on like Russia. God promised judgment to
Russia, or the North countries, just as He promised judgment to Egypt and Babylon. This
judgment will also be part of the Tribulation Period judgment of the Jews spoken of in the third
major judgment. And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog [the leader] shall
come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my
face. For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day
there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; So that the fishes of the sea, and
the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep
upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my
presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall,

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and every wall shall fall to the ground. And I will call for a sword against him
throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be against
his brother. And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will
rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an
overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone (Ezekiel 38:18-22).
Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that
day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it? And thou shalt
come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of
them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army: And thou shalt come
up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter
days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I
shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes (Ezekiel 38: 14-16). And it shall come
to pass in that day. That I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the
valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the
passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it
The valley of Hamon-gog. And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of
them, that they may cleanse the land (Ezekiel 39:11,12). God will give the North countries a
place of graves in Israel, not victories. The North countries will trigger the battle of Armageddon.
They will desire a spoil in Israel. Thinking that the land will be easy to take, Russia will go down.
She will be mistaken, for she will fail to take into account the God of Israel. Pharaoh and the king
of Babylon did not count on God, and they were destroyed.

And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to
come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel: And I
will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy
right hand. Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and
the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and
to the beasts of the field to be devoured. Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have
spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that
dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the Lord. So will I make my
holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my
holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in
Israel. Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I
have spoken (Ezekiel 39:2-8).

Read of the destiny of Russia as recorded in Ezekiel. Know what is to come; understand what will
happen to the goat nations. The Bible tells it all.

And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and
out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are
the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and

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of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty
(Revelation 16:13,14). Three unclean spirits like frogs, they're demons—where are they going? To
the kings of the earth to gather them to the great battle of Armageddon. Those devils give such
power that the kings will think they can't be defeated by Israel.

For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to
this time, no, nor ever shall be (Matthew 24:21). Remember what happened in Egypt, in
Babylon; think of the wars down through the years. Jesus tells us in Matthew that this tribulation
will be greater than anything thus far.

Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of
thee. For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be
taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go
forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city
(Zechariah 14:1,2). And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all
people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people
of the earth be gathered together against it (Zechariah 12:3). Only God could bring this
about; only God could unit those nations against Israel, force them all to come. What a time for
Jesus to return to earth!

Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations as when he fought in the
day of battle (Zechariah 14:3). The fury with which the Lord fought for the Jews when they were
obedient to Him, He will display again. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount
of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave
in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very
great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it
toward the south (Zechariah 14:4). Staying in a hotel on the Mount of Olives when I was in
Jerusalem, I would think, Jesus is coming one day. This mountain I'm lodging on will split wide
open! I rejoiced to think of the return of the Lord to earth.

God will make the way for the Jewish people who look to Him, the Jews who accept Jesus as Lord,
as their Messiah—and, remember, one third will.

And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he [Jesus] that sat upon him
was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His
eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name
written, that no man knew, but he himself (Revelation 19:11,12). This is Jesus of battle, the
roaring Lion of the tribe of Judah. No longer the Lamb, Jesus will come to bring judgment upon
the nations.

And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word
of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses,

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clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that
with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he
treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God (Revelation
19:13-15). Jesus will come to smite the nations, not just one nation but all the goat nations gathered
to fight the battle of Armageddon. When it looks as though total chaos rules, as though the whole
nation of Israel that God had gathered back is going to be destroyed Jesus will appear on the scene.

The nations to be ruled with a rod of iron are the sheep nations, the nations that did not come
against the Jews. Once a year these sheep nations will have to go up to Jerusalem to worship, or
the Lord won't send rain on their land.

And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND
LORD OF LORDS (Revelation 19:16). It's King Jesus, King of kings and Lord of lords. And I
saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls
that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper
of the great God; That ye may eat the flesh of the kings, and the flesh of captains, and
the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the
flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great (Revelation 19:17,18).

The same cry went forth for Russia; God called the fowls of the air, the beasts of the field to come
to the great supper of God Almighty. Now He is crying again to the fowls to come and eat the flesh
of all men, the wicked who have mistreated the Jews. Many will be in that number. Some from the
sheep nations, of course, will be slain, also, as they fight against the goat nations.

And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to
make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army (Revelation 19:19). The
beast is the Antichrist. When he sees Jesus sitting on the horse with His armies, he will think he
can defeat the very Son of God. He is a deceiving devil, bringing with him men who think like he
does. This army that will go forth against Jesus will find death awaiting them.

Isaiah the prophet foretold Armageddon. Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and
maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants
thereof (Isaiah 24:1). What terror this describes! Do you want to be in this war? The nations are
getting ready for Armageddon right now. When men cry peace, sudden destruction will strike.

The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have
transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate;
therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned and few men are left (Isaiah 24:5,6).
Out of the population of the whole earth, few men will be left alive, comparatively speaking. This
world is headed for Armageddon, traveling faster each day. Throughout the whole earth, the
effects of Armageddon will be felt.

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The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage and
the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again
(Isaiah 24:20). The earth will never be the same. The Lord is going to judge the nations, and then
the one-thousand-year Perfect Age will begin. Jesus will set up His Kingdom right here on planet
earth.

And there were voices; and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great
earthquake such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake,
and so great. And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the
nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the
cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath (Revelation 16:18,19). The great cities
throughout the world will fall when this catastrophic earthquake takes place, the cities of the
nations. Think of Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Tokyo, London and all the other great cities
—falling. The spirit of Babylon is remembered.

And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. And there fell upon
men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men
blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was
exceeding great (Revelation 16:20,21). Mountains fleeing before the wrath of God as He walks
the earth….

Once I experienced the Lord walking the earth. As His feet came down on the earth it sounded like
paper crushing with each step. Never would I have thought to witness something like that!

Hailstones weighing almost one hundred pounds fall as men blaspheme God, curse and despise
Him. And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that
have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon
their feet and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall
consume away in their mouth (Zechariah 14:12). By this method God will destroy those who
fought against Jerusalem. Their flesh will vanish, their eyes melt in their sockets, their tongues
melt in their mouths. It's Armageddon; it's the wrath of God. God will have had enough.

And the beast [the Antichrist] was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought
miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the
beast, and them that worshiped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of
fire burning with brimstone (Revelation 10:20). At the close of the battle of Armageddon, the
Antichrist and the false prophet will be taken alive and cast into the lake of fire. And the
remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword
proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh (Revelation
19:21).

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What happens to Satan at this time? And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having
the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the
dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand
years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him,
that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled:
and after that he must be loosed a little season (Revelation 20:1-3). The Antichrist, the false
prophet are in the lake of fire, and now Lucifer is thrown into the bottomless pit.

It's time for the nations to be judged: Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand,
Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels
(Matthew 25:41). The Lord is talking to the wicked, the hateful, the evil. The sheep nations are to
the right, the goat nations to the left. Remember the scripture at the beginning of this booklet:
When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then
shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations:
and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from
the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then
shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit
the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world (Matthew 25:31-34).

This is the fourth judgment, the judgment of the nations.

Subject: The goat nations and the sheep nations

Time: The return of Jesus Christ at the end of the Battle of Armageddon

Place: Earth

Basis: Treatment of the Jews by the nations

Result: Goat nations destroyed; sheep nations enter Perfect Age

The Gentile dispensation will close with the Bride of Christ being taken out. Are you ready to meet
the Lord? Are you ready for Jesus to come? Are you expecting Him? If you need Jesus in your
heart, lift up your hands and pray the sinners' prayer with me: Oh God, save my soul! Forgive me
of my sins. I'm so sorry, Lord, that I sinned against you, but I have come home. I'm going to serve
you, Lord, the rest of my life. I believe that Jesus died for me, and I will live for Him. I believe the
blood of Jesus washes away all of my sins, all of my sins. Come into my heart, Jesus, Come on in!

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If you meant that prayer, He has come. He is all yours. Start reading your Bible, praying daily to
Him. He will hear you. Some fasting will help, true Bible fasting.

Thus saith the Lord: Weigh my judgments just as you seek to weigh my love. Weigh my promises
of destruction just like you weigh all of my good promises. Declare unto this generation that the
Lord will come. Declare unto this generation that the God of all flesh is moving with love and
anger. Declare to this generation that their hour is a short hour. Declare to this generation that
it's time for them to bow in obedience before the great I-Am. It is time for this generation to repent
and humble themselves in the presence of their God. It is time for this generation to open their
ears that they may hear, open their eyes that they might see. It is time for this generation to go to
my Word and caress it all and embrace it all and believe it all. It is time for this generation to
know the hour in which they live. It is time for the wicked to be told that judgment will soon be
theirs. It is time for the wicked of your household to know that judgment will soon be theirs. It is
time for all peoples throughout the earth to hear my message of love, my message of love, and my
message of destruction, judgment and damnation, saith the Lord. Be bold in my Spirit. Be alive in
my Spirit, and have the tongue of gladness and the tongue of love and the tongue of my fire, saith
the Lord; and speak the things of God. This is your hour of victory if you will yield daily to me,
saith the Lord.

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