In Isa 20.3-4, we have where Egypt (Europe) and Cush (remnants of the USA) will be dominated in a war with Assyria (Gog and Magog/Russia). In Isa 20.6 it says “in that day” and this refers to the future “Day of the Lord” at the Sowd level, so we have a prophetic allusion to the Atid Lavo here. The Messiah will have his coronation on Rosh Ha Shanah, year 6001 from creation. The resurrection of the righteous and the “gathering” of the righteous will happen at that time. They will be at the coronation of the Messiah, and there will be the wedding of the Messiah with his bride also.
Within the first ten days, between Rosh Ha Shanah and Yom Kippur, year 6001, the United States will be destroyed. As a result, there will be an emergency meeting in Europe of the NATO nations, and the False Messiah will come to power. He immediately makes a military treaty with Israel for seven years, and it will be signed on Tishri 11. Going ahead 2520 days of the Birth-pains, we come to Yom Kippur again. This is the day Yeshua returns to Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives (Matt 24.29-31).
We believe prophetically that the land of Babylon is the United States. The continental United States will be destroyed in one day. There will be many Americans living outside of the country, tourists abroad, the United States military stationed all over Europe and the world, and business people overseas that will survive this attack. These will join themselves to Europe.
So, Rev 17.3-5 says, “So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, which was full of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a cup full of abominations and of the unclean things of her immorality. And upon her forehead a name was written, a mystery, ‘Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and of the abominations of the earth.'” The remnants of the United States are sitting and being supported by the False Messiah.
Isa 20.3-4 says, “And the Lord said, ‘Even as my servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot three years as a sign and token against Egypt and Cush, so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush.'” The Assyrians were beating Egypt and Cush anciently. But, remember, this is also told in the context of “in that day” in verse 6. Assyria attacked Egypt, and prophetically this means that Russia will attack Europe, after the United States is gone. This is exactly what Europe feared. This “war” will last three years and be a conventional war because Russia wants Europe intact. That means this war will go from Tishri 11, 6001 to Tishri 10, 6004. Russia will be dominating this war with Europe and the remnants of the United States (Cush is Babylon-Gen 10.8-10) and the False Messiah. But, on Tishri 10, 6004 Russia will be defeated by God when they invade Israel. We will talk more about this when we look at Gog and Magog/Russia. Russia will feel confidant enough to invade Israel at this time because they feel they have the European front well in hand.
The False Messiah comes to Israel at the halfway point of the Birth-pains, Nisan 10, so something has happened. The Abomination of Desolation is set up, the Two Witnesses are killed and Israel flee’s into the wilderness. But there is a reason he has come to Jerusalem in this passage. Europe has become contaminated by something, possibly a limited nuclear attack, or possibly a plague of some sort. They must let the land restore itself for 40 years due to the destruction of this war with Gog and Magog/Russia (Ezek 29.11, 32.15).
Ezek 29.10-16 will carry us over into when Yeshua returns. Europe has been devastated by war many times. We have the wars with Napoleon, World War I and World War II for example. People have been trying to put the “old Roman Empire” back together since it fell. God will remove her from her position of being chief among the nations to being a third world area.
Now, we want to develop the concept of the “Nachash” further, so let’s go to Isa 27., where it says, “In that day (when Messiah comes) the Lord will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent (Nachash) with his fierce and great and mighty sword (his word-Rev 19.15), even Leviathan the twisted serpent and he will kill the dragon (Tannin) who lives in the sea (Yam).” Now, lets go to Gen 3.1 where it says, “And the serpent (Nachash) was more crafty than the beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden?'” Then Gen 3.15 goes on to say, “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise you on the head and you shall bruise him on the heel.” In Ezek 29.15-16 it says, “It will be the lowest of the kingdoms; and it will never again lift itself up above the nations. And I shall make them so small that they will not rule over the nations. And it will never again be the confidence of the house of Israel bringing to mind the iniquity of their having turned to Egypt. Then they will know that I am the Lord God.” Never again will Israel be confident in Egypt for help, the nation they were in treaty with in Dan 9.27. The False Messiah and his kingdom will be destroyed by the Messiah at his coming, thus fulfilling Gen 3.15 and Ezek 29.10-16.
Now, we have a term we have mentioned before and this term is “The Feast of Leviathan.” Job 41.6 says, “Will the companions make a banquet of him, will they divide him among the merchants?” So, let’s look at some passages on this. Psa 74.14 says that God crushed the heads of Leviathan and gave him as food to the creatures of the wilderness. This doesn’t mean they “ate Pharaoh” but it is a metaphor for his destruction because these terms are idioms referring to an “impending disaster and great slaughter.” We see the same thing in Rev 19.17-18, Joel 3.11-14 and Luke 17.31-37. Where it says in Luke that “two will be grinding together, one will be taken and the other left, two men will be in the field, the one taken and the other left” does not mean this is talking about the “Rapture.” We know this because they ask him where these were taken, and Yeshua says “Wherever the body is, there the eagles (vultures) will be gathered.” We have several things going on here here.
First, Yeshua is making an allusion to when the Romans will come. They were killed and some taken prisoner. The Roman “Eagle” will be gathered against them. Second, he is also referring to when the False Messiah comes against them out of the revived Roman Empire in the future. Some will die and some will be taken prisoner, and some will flee. Third, he is also referring to when Yeshua comes in judgment and we have the feast of Leviathan. The phrase “where the body is the eagles (vultures) will be gathered together” is an idiom meaning a “great and impending disaster is coming, a great slaughter.” We know that the unbelievers will be gathered first to Jerusalem for judgment (Matt 13.24-30). They will be killed and their body will be taken to the Tophet, the Valley of Hinnom south of the city. The “Feast of Leviathan” (or False Messiah) is where the Lord gathers the birds and the beasts to feast on the bodies of the slain who followed the False Messiah, or just didn’t believe (Rev 19.17-21; Ezek 29.5, 32.3-6; Isa 66.23-24). This judgment will happen between Yom Kippur, when Yeshua returns to Jerusalem, and the festival of Sukkot.
During Sukkot, there is a teaching about the Feast of Leviathan in the farewell to the Sukkah (Artscroll Sukkot Machzor, p 1020-1021). After seven years of the Birth-pains, believers have been in Heaven. They return and we have the Wedding Supper. This supper happens at the end of the Shavuah (seven years). The Wedding Supper and the reception will be the Festival of Sukkot, with a joyous celebration. Why do we have the negative aspect of the Feast of Leviathan? Because at the “Valley of Decision” at the bottom of Mount Moriah (Tophet), the unbelievers are gathered and the animals feast on their flesh. Everyone is going to a banquet, or a feast. The Wedding Supper with the Messiah is for the believer, and the Feast of Leviathan is for the unbeliever, where they are the dinner.
In Part 11, we will pick up here and continue our look into the greatest delusion ever told. We must keep in mind all the concepts that we have been going over, and the ones we are about to get into, because they all will play a role in how we will perceive this delusion when it all comes together.
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