Post Virus World Order

Your commands make me wiser than my enemies, for they are always with me.
I have more insight than all my teachers because your decrees are my meditation.
I understand more than the elders because I obey your precepts. (Psalm 119:98-100 CSB)

I am not a prophet and I am not speaking the Word of God given by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. What I write is based insights gained by reading the Bible on prophecies and applying it to current world events. Let me make some bold predictions of the impact of covid-19 on the post covid-19 world.

China
China have angered the world, or more specifically, United States and Western Europe. They will recognize Taiwan in retaliation. China will be forced to accept two China policy. They may even have to give up Hong Kong in exchange for the West not to pursue for damages caused by the covid-19 virus. China will decline and become a second-rate power until the end of the seven year tribulation, unable to challenge the rise of the neo-Roman empire.

Globalization
Globalization as it is today where multinationals build their supply chain purely based on cost and profit will end. There will be tribalization and de-sinicization of the global supply chain. Companies will factor national interest and defence into their supply chain.

Europe and America
The most powerful cultural unit and tribe, the so-called western democracies, the Judeo-Christian based European and American and maybe even Russian civilizations, will coalesce into a powerful coalition, laying the foundations for the future ten nation neo-Roman empire.

World Bodies
World bodies, such as United Nations, World Health Organization, etc will be re-organized to serve the western democracies. They will no longer feel apologetic about their imperial past as new or current right-wing Trump-like political parties come into power. They will not accept political correctness and demand free speech.

As the toes were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle. And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay. (Daniel 2:42-43 NIV)

The Coming World Government

With the restoration of Israel in 1948, prophecies kicked in again. We are living in times when the prophecies of the Bible is being fulfilled. And coming soon will be the one world government, one world religion and one world currency! What is blocking these today? There are three things:

1. Communism;
2. Evolution;
3. Islam.

For the one world government, one world religion and one world currency to happen, these three must be removed.

Communism is basically China. China is now vying for world supremacy with United States. The covid-19 virus will bring down China. That leaves evolution and Islam. I believe science will prove the first 11 chapters of Genesis to be true and evolution will die. That will leave Islam because Islam claim to be descended from Christianity. So proving Genesis does not disprove Islam. Islam will be taken down by the war prophesied in Ezekiel 38. With that, all obstacle to the one world religion will be removed. That will then lead to one world government and one world currency.

You will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land. In the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, I vindicate my holiness before their eyes. (Ezekiel 38:16 ESV)

So I will show my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD. (Ezekiel 38:23 ESV)

The Two Witnesses - Israel And Church

"You are my witnesses," declares the LORD, "and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me. (Isaiah 43:10 NIV)

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." (Acts 1:8 NIV)

Passover, Unleaven Bread and First Fruits 2020

The Lord's Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. On the fifteenth day of that month the Lord's Festival of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. For seven days present a food offering to the Lord. And on the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.'" (Leviticus 23:5-8 NIV)

The Lord spoke to Moses: "Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you and reap its harvest, you are to bring the first sheaf of your harvest to the priest. He will present the sheaf before the Lord so that you may be accepted; the priest is to present it on the day after the Sabbath. (Leviticus 23:9-11 CSB)

Passover: 7-8 April 2020
Feast of Unleavened Breads: 8-15 April 2020
Feast of First Fruits: 11-12 April 2020

This year, the Feast of First Fruits coincide with Easter.

Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch - as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. (1 Corinthians 5:7 NIV)

But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. (1 Corinthians 15:20-23 ESV)

Palm Sunday 2020

Tomorrow is Palm Sunday. On this day nearly two thousand years ago, our Lord Jesus rode on a donkey in Jerusalem and proclaimed Himself as the Anointed One. This also marked the end of Daniel's 69 weeks. It is also the only time Jesus allow Himself to be publicly proclaimed as the Anointed One, to fulfil the prophecies written by the prophets.

The prophecies
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. (Zechariah 9:9 ESV)

And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed. (Daniel 9:26 ESV)

The fulfilment
Now when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, "Go into the village in front of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me. If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, 'The Lord needs them,' and he will send them at once."
This took place to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet, saying,
"Say to the daughter of Zion, 'Behold, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.'"
The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them. They brought the donkey and the colt and put on them their cloaks, and he sat on them. Most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!" And when he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, "Who is this?" And the crowds said, "This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee." (Matthew 21:1-11 ESV)

Dating Palm Sunday

After those sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. The people of the coming ruler will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come with a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations are decreed. (Daniel 9:26 CSB)

Here are some links that calculate the triumphant entry of Jesus to Jerusalem and His crucifixion based on Daniel 9:26.

1. Dr. Harold Hoehner's Refinements of Anderson's Theory: Are They Sound?
2. Two Significant Problems With Harold W. Hoehner’s Chronology of the Life of Christ --Sam A. Smith
3. Latter Rain - The Seventy Weeks of Daniel Part VI by Thomas Ice

According to Barnes' Notes on the Bible, these events, the triumphant entry and crucifixion will happen after the completion of 62 weeks.

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And after threescore and two weeks - After the completion of the last period of four hundred and thirty-four years. The angel had shown in the previous verse what would be the characteristic of the first period of "seven weeks" - that during that time the wall and the street would be built in circumstances of general distress and anxiety, and he now proceeds to state what would occur in relation to the remaining sixty-two weeks. The particular thing which would characterize that period would be, that the Messiah would be cut off, and that the series of events would commence which would terminate in the destruction of the city and the temple. He does not say that this would be immediately on the termination of the sixty-two weeks, but he says that it would be "after" אחרי 'achărēy - "subsequent" to the close of that period. The word does not mean necessarily immediately, but it denotes what is to succeed - to follow - and would be well expressed by the word "afterward:" Genesis 15:14; Genesis 23:19; Genesis 25:26, et al. See Gesenius, Lexicon The natural meaning here would be, that this would be the "next event" in the order of events to be reckoned; it would be that on which the prophetic eye would rest subsequent to the close of the period of sixty-two weeks. There are two circumstances in the prophecy itself which go to show that it is not meant that this would immediately follow:

1. One is, that in the previous verse it is said that the "sixty-two weeks" would extend "unto the Messiah;" that is, either to his birth or to his manifestation as such; and it is not implied anywhere that he would be "cut off" at once on his appearing, nor is such a supposition reasonable, or one that would have been embraced by an ancient student of the prophecies;
2. the other is, that, in the subsequent verse, it is expressly said that what he would accomplish in causing the oblation to cease would occur "in the midst of the week;" that is, of the remaining one week that would complete the seventy. This could not occur if he were to be "cut off" immediately at the close of the sixty-two weeks.
3. The careful student of this prophecy, therefore, would anticipate that the Messiah would appear at the close of the sixty-two weeks, and that he would continue during a part, at least, of the remaining one week before he would be cut off. This point could have been clearly made out from the prophecy before the Messiah came.

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Good old Albert Barnes. Written nearly 200 years ago, his commentaries are still relevant. Always good to work on eternal stuff.

Find And Do

Test all things; hold fast what is good. (1 Thessalonians 5:21 NKJV)

1. Find out what is true;
2. Do what is right.

Seems to be very easy principles to keep, but few can do it.

For this reason, many choose the easy way out, by obeying political leaders, bosses or authorities, believing in news and expert opinions or even rumours, following the teachings of religions, philosophies, traditions, cultures without questioning. Even Buddha in the Kalama Sutta (羯臘摩經), tell us not to do that.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. (1 John 4:1 ESV)