Why Russia Will Not Attack America - Church of God - NEO

I n the 36th chapter ofEzekiel, the Eternal addressesthe House of Israel:"Prophesy unto the mountainsof Israel ... Thus saiththe Lord God to the mountains,and to the hills, to therivers, and to the valleys, tothe desolate wastes, and tothe cities that are forsaken.... But ye, 0 mountainsof Israel, ye shall shootforth your branches, andyield your fruit to my peopleof Israel; for they are athand to come .... And Iwill multiply men uponThe Geneva handshake that brokethe ice between the superpowers.you, all the house of Israel, even allof it: and the cities shall be inhabited,and the wastes shall bebuilded: and I will multiply uponyou man and beast ... " (verses I,4, 8, 10-11).Yes, the House of Israel is picturedreturning to its original land,not from a condition of wealth andprosperity from Britain and Americanot in the position of a peoplevictorious in a great world warbutas a slave and captive people,scattered through the nations ofthe world. All prophecies picturingthis rescue and regathering ofIsrael at Christ's coming give usthe same prophetic picture.Both Houses of IsraelUnitedIn chapter 37, the firstpart pictures the "valleyof dry bones." This represents(verse II) thewhole House of IsraelincludingJudah. It has adual significance. It picturesthe rebirth and resurrectionof Israel as anation, from captivity,dispersion and slavery.It pictures, too, theliteral bodily resurrectionof the individualwho had already died,after which the knowledgeof the truth spiritualknowledge shallbe revealed, and he shallbe converted, and God'sSpirit shall enterwithin, and he shall besaved.Beginning with the15th verse, the illustrationof the two sticksshows the two houses,or nations, Israel andJudah, being oncemore united, underChrist at his SecondComing, in the land ofIsrael." ... Thus saith theLord God; Behold, Iwill take the childrenof Israel [from theBritish Isles andAmerica from a positionof wealth and affluence as recentvictors in the world war? No,but] from among the heathen,whither they be gone, and willgather them on every side, andbring them into their own land:and I will make them one nation inthe land upon the mountains ofIsrael; and one king shall be king tothem all: and they shall be no moretwo nations, neither shall they bedivided into two kingdoms anymore at all: neither shall they defilethemselves any more with theiridols, nor with their detestablethings, nor with any of their transgressions.... And they shall dwellin the land that I have given untoJacob my servant, wherein your fathershave dwelt ... they, and theirchildren, and their children's childrenfor ever . ... Moreover I willmake a covenant of peace withthem; it shall be an everlastingcovenant . .."the New Covenant(verses 21-23, 25-26).At Peace in the Holy LandNotice, now the story flow thetime sequence: The prophet hascarried us through the sins of hispeople, the coming invasion andcaptivity and dispersion, and thecoming of Christ as Deliverer torestore the fortunes of Israel. Wehave come to the time when boththe Houses of Israel and Judahshall be reunited into one nation,rescued from captivity and dispersionand regathered again in theirland, once again made prosperous,having learned their lesson, nowliving God's way, under his laws,enjoying his richest blessings, bothmaterial and spiritual!And now we come to chapter 38.This chapter finds Israel restoredin her land "the land that isbrought back from the sword"(verse 8). We find Israel now atrest, dwelling safely, totally unpreparedfor war having "neitherbars nor gates" (verse II), in thedesolate places of the land of Israel,now inhabited (verse 12) yes, inhabited(same verse) by the peoplewho are once again restored togreat material prosperity "whichhave gotten cattle and goods, thatdwell in the midst of the land."Notice it!This prophecy does not picturethe British Isles and America. It picturesthe Holy Land. It pictures all12 tribes having been taken therefrom a dispersion and captivity andslavery, gathered out of the nationswhere they had been scattered, nowonce again beginning to prosper.Notice it: The time of thisprophecy is after not before, butafter the Second Coming ofChrist after the great Delivererhas come and rescued our peopleand restored us to the land of Israelafter Israel and Judah arereunited. Certainly the "latteryears" (verse 8).The place of this battle is notBritain or America it is the HolyLand. " ... thou shalt come into theland that is brought back from thesword, and is gathered out of manypeople, against the mountains of5