SUDDENLY
SUDDENLY
Sunday, October 11, 2015, the Year of Our Lord
Pastor Carolyn Sissom
In these days of “Suddenlies”, from one Sunday to the other, we are watching as the nations and political powers are being overturned. This week Obama surrendered the Muslim Brotherhood operation in Syria to Putin. Last week the Speaker of the House of Representatives resigned. His heir apparent, Kevin McCarthy, withdrew from the Speaker’s race.
A few weeks ago I compared the judgments against Obama with the ten plagues brought against Pharaoh. The Lord plagues against Pharaoh were released in threes. The number 10 represents a complete testing.
The Lord spoke to me in 2013 of three judgments he was bringing against Obama.
1. The Lord had declared him impotent among the nations.
2. The Lord had declared him impotent in the United States.
3. The Lord had declared him impotent in his marriage.
We have watched as each one of these unfolded and Obama hardened his heart in each instance.
1. He lost the respect of our allies and enemies. In the hardness of his heart against our allies, he has made alliances with our enemies.
2. He lost respect from the American people and the ability to govern using the Congressional branch of government. In the hardness of his heart, he has been governing issuing executive orders.
3. In his marriage --- He has escalated the gay pride agenda. In the hardness of his heart, he was able to use the Supreme Court to legalize gay marriage, thus bringing dishonor to the sanctity of his own marriage.
As we have watched these judgments unfold, we the people, and certainly we the church, have grieved. Like children of Israel, these judgments have also fallen on us. After the first three in Egypt, God kept his own walking in immunity. Also, one of the ways the first three were unique was Pharaoh’s magicians were able to duplicate the miracles.
All of these we have discussed, yet I bring these before us again because it is apparent the Lord has again released a greater wave of judgment upon Obama. I cannot say the Lord has spoken to me as clearly as he did in 2013. Yet the pattern appears to continue
1. This week Putin (Russia) humiliated Obama by aligning with Assad and bombing the Muslim Brotherhood’s alliance with the Syrian Rebels. The Obama administration has backed the Muslim Brotherhood in the overthrow of Egypt, Libya and Syria. Iran further humiliated Obama by joining with Russia by sending in their ground troops. (This is ongoing and yet to be determined what will happen if Obama again hardens his heart against God.)
2. Obama’s agenda to overthrow the Second Amendment has now lost him further respect with the United States citizens. (This again is ongoing).
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Last Wednesday night at prayer, as is our custom, we yielded to the Lord for Him to use our members to pray for what is in his heart. My mind was on Syria and Putin’s move into the Middle East.
However, the Lord arrested me and had me begin to pray for Kevin McCarthy. The Lord revealed some things to us (which I won’t print in these notes). We began to pray the Lord would place his chosen man in that office. Even our own Jo Ann Carpenter who is very knowledgeable about the inner-workings of government, said, “It has already been decided. He will be elected.”
But, the next day, Kevin McCarthy withdrew as a candidate for the Speaker of the House---another shaking and overturning by the Hand of the Lord--- Church let us pray for our government and those who are in authority that they will be given their authority by the Hand of the Lord and not by the establishment. A couple of years ago when I was in Washington, D.C., the Lord spoke to me that I couldn’t trust any branch of our government.
In Ezekiel 21:27 – the principle of God’s overturning is always done in threes.
I believe the Lord is shaking and sifting the church and the government. I believe we have come into that time when everything that can be shaken will be shaken.
Heb. 12:26: “Whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this word, yet once more, signified the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Wherefore, we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire.”
Now concerning Syria,--- The Lord’s fundamental truth of the people of a nation fleeing during war, famine or plagues, is a principle of the judgment of God. Syrian refugees are fleeing.
Joel 3:8: “I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off, for the Lord has spoken it.”
This is God’s dealing with abusers and their crimes against people. God is both prosecutor and judge who identifies with the abused. Justice will be swift. The charges are twofold---you took my silver and my gold (vs.5). You sold the people…sending them far from their homeland.
Amos 1:9 – Tyre is accused of mass deportation of God’s people to Edom (also Zech. 9:3). The penalty assessed against the perpetrators of these crimes is that their own sons and daughters will be delivered into the hands of the people of Judah; and will be sold to the Sabeans, traders of Sheba is southwest Arabia who would funnel the slaves along the eastern trade route.
These prophetic words by Joel and Amos have historically come to pass, yet the Lord’s dealings with evil have not changed.
GOG, THE LAND OF MAGOG---I do not apologize for again brining forth a teaching from May 15, 2008 on Ezekiel 38 and 39. The Word of God does not change and preaches the same from generation to generation.
In our study of Ezekiel 38 and 39, the Lord opened my eyes to the identity of Gog representing every evil force that is marshaled against the" Whole House of Israel"(39:25). Chapters 38 and 39 are one prophecy and tell of a northern confederacy of nations around the Black and Caspian seas with Persia. and North Africa. These nations are ruled in the realm of the spirit by the spirit of communism and the spirit of Islam.
(I am familiar who Gog is presumed to be historically as well as the future ruler of Russia).
These nations include Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, Georgia, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, North West India and Russia; plus Persia (Iran) and North Africa (Ethiopia and Libya). If this passage is apocalyptic, as this writer believes it is, then Gog is Satan personified as the chief prince in this league of nations. I did some research on the internet using the "string", "Northern confederacy of nations around the Black and Caspian Seas". These nations have economic and environmental confederacies in place. As we have studied apocalyptic literature in the Holy Bible, we clearly identify the Prince of Persia and the Prince of Grecia as demonic chief princes over the Middle Eastern and Mediterranean nations. According to the prophecy in Ezekiel 38 and 39, these powers and principalities will come together under one demonic Prince, (Gog). Russia and the northern powers have long been persecutors of dispersed Israel along with the Islamic nations.
We are now watching as Russia and Iran have moved into Syria and Iraq. (39:1-2) "I am against you, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal and I will turn you back, and leave but the sixth part of you, and will cause you to come up from the north parts, and will bring you upon the mountains of Israel." (38:20b) "All the men upon the face of the earth, shall shake at My Presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground." It would seem the birth pains we have been watching for the past 7 years of the Obama administration’s international policies have now made way for Russia, Iran and the Kings of the East to control these oil rich nations.
Metaphorically or spiritually the mountains of Israel refer to God's end-time people and the Kingdom of God as well as the Nation of Israel (The Whole House of Israel – Ez. 39:25). Each one of these demons are spirits that will be loosed on the earth in the latter days upon the sons of God so that these powers of darkness can be defeated. (Rom 16:20) "And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen." I do not see that the literal interpretation and the spiritual interpretation are in opposition with each other. Now in the 21st Century we see the spirit of anti-Christ moving across the earth through Islam. All of these nations have embraced this spirit. Even Russia with the spirit of communism i.e. the spirit of Russia is a government of destruction, cruelty, suspicion, oppressive and sets one against another. In all of these nations, terrorism, fear and deception are the powers and principalities. God is going to put a hook in the jaw of all these spirits and destroy them (Ez. 38:4). God is going to bring these spirits to the Mountains of Israel (Nation of Israel and Sons of God i.e. The Whole House of Israel) (39:25) and destroy them literally and spiritually. “And all the nations of the earth shall know that He is the Lord Our God.”.
Joel 3:2-6: “ I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for My people and for My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted My land. They have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink….”
We are watching as Christians and Muslims are being sodomized and used as sex slaves in the Middle East.
Like most of you, I have prayed through the years, “O Lord, please don’t let the United States be among those nations who will come against Israel.” Yet, the word of God says, “all nations”. Here we are. We have a president elected by the people, who has aligned himself with the Muslim Brotherhood against Israel and the Church.
The Church has the same blessing and heritage as Israel. As Israel is persecuted by our President, so are Christians persecuted by our President and his administration. We will be aligned with Israel as God’s people as these days unfold before us.
Let us rejoice and be glad. The Lord has chosen you to be part of His great mighty army when he shall roar out of Zion, and utter His voice from Jerusalem; and the earth shall shake; but the Lord will be the hope of His people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
It does appear that the Gog-Magog nations have joined with the Psalm 83 nations to destroy Israel. Obama’s alignment with the Muslim Brotherhood whose agenda is to convert the world to Islam with the government of the Sharia Law as the world government. The leaders of Sharia law defend the use of violence against citizens.
The ancient populations listed in Psalm 83 are here superimposed upon their modern day equivalents.
The Psalmist Asaph is praying to the Lord to put an end to the confederacy. He prophecies that God is to judge the earth. “O God judge the earth; for you shall inherit all nations.”
1. Your enemies make a tumult.
2. They lift up their head.
3. They have taken crafty counsel against Your people.
4. They have consulted against Your hidden ones.
5. They have said, Let us destroy Israel from being a nation and
6. Let us blot out the name of Israel so it will not be remembered.
7. They have consulted together with one consent.
8. They are a confederate against You.
9. The nations have united against you to help the children of Lot.
“That men may know that you, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, are the Most High over all the earth.”
Carolyn Sissom, Pastor
Eastgate Ministries, Inc.
Scripture from K.J.V.; Bibliography; Dake’s Annotated Reference Bible; Ernest L. Martin, PH. D., 2001; The Ten Kings, Part II of II
See – Sermon Notes –www.eastgateministries.com
2/3/13 – Isaiah 17 - The Burden of Damascus
3/18/12 – Psalm 83 – Ten Nation Confederacy
5/15/08- Ezekiel 38 & 39 - Gog-Magog