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������� THE DAY OF YAHWEH ‑By Bertrand L. Comparet ‑#11
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������� Thu, 1 Nov 2001 09:00:29 ‑0800
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���������������� THE DAY OF YAHWEH
���������������������������� By Bertrand L. Comparet
���� The prophet Joel left a message written for our day. This was a
warning which, if we had heeded it, would have kept us out of the
troubles we now face both from within our nation and from outside.
Like all the men of his century, he was familiar with war and
trouble. War was almost the normal condition of the kingdoms of
that day. Then conquerors did not help their defeated victims back
to prosperity, as we have done. If the losers were not
exterminated, they were either enslaved or put under heavy tribute
taxes, after first being looted by the conqueror. Therefore, it took a
startling vision to arouse Joel to the excitement he displays in this
short book. It is not like anything seen or heard before.
���� Joel begins, "The word of Yahweh that came to Joel, the son of
Peethuel: Hear this ye elders, and give ear all the inhabitants of the
land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your
fathers? Tell ye your children of it and let your children tell their
children and their children another generation." There had been
nothing like it in the past, neither was it for the near future. This
prophecy was to be preserved for many generations. Joel's
prophecy deals with the day of Yahweh, something which hasn't
come yet. All the signs of both prophecy and current history prove
to be just a short time ahead of us today.
���� The day does not come without long preparation. It is the result
of a very extensive cause and it develops���� gradually over many
years. Joel speaks of the signs of that development and how it
ripens into the final conflict of the age. We cannot get the complete
picture by reading just the book of Joel, the Bible was not written
this way. Many men have written whole volumes on only one book
of the Bible, but never have they given us a true and accurate
picture. The writings of each prophet must be confirmed
and amplified by further details given by other prophets. This
mutual corroboration is the only proof of the genuineness of each
one. Several other prophets have written of the great and dreadful
day of Yahweh, we will see how they amplify Joel's prophecy.
���� The day of Yahweh erupts into the greatest world war ever
known. This war has its beginnings in the long period of the unseen
war of evil against good. By this conflict, we are being broken down
and softened up for the final attack. Yahweh has blessed us with
great strength, because we are His people, the enemy does not
dare to attack us until that strength has been wasted. (Water, Food,
Gun & Ammo control?)
���� The attack really begins from within, by infiltration, corruption
and treachery. Mere numbers will not make a nation strong enough
to conquer the world, or to defend it. Its real strength depends upon
the economic resources, which can supply the army with modern
weapons. The numbers of our soldiers were not enough to tip the
scales in either world war. We won because we could overwhelm
the enemy with an enormous flood of weapons and munitions. The
way to defeat us would seem to be to break
down our economic strength.
���� Lenin said, "We will make the United States spend itself into
bankruptcy". Stalin and Khrushchev have said many times that
they would make our strength collapse from internal troubles. For a
whole generation, our government has been infiltrated and infested
with men who are Marxists. They are completely devoted to the
ideal of totally destroying our whole economic and political system
so they can replace it with socialism.
���� These men who are communists, in everything but name,
always call themselves liberals. This was also
foretold in the Bible. Isaiah 32:5 encourages us to wait for a time
when, as he said, "The vile person shall no longer be called
liberal."
���� Joel 1:4 compares the work of these men to a plague of insects
saying, "That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust
eaten; and that which the cankerworm left hath the caterpillar
eaten." We know that he was not speaking of a succession of real
insect plagues, for the locusts leave nothing edible for other
insects to eat. It is symbolic of something, which impoverishes us.
���� Do other prophets give us further clues? Yes!! Haggai 1:6 shows
that we produce much, but have little for ourselves. "Ye have sown
much, and bring in little; ye eat, but you have not enough; ye drink,
but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none
warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put into a bag
with holes."
���� We earn the wages, but can't keep them. We produce the food,
yet many are hungry. Where does our production go? That is what
Joel is talking about. We know that Yahweh is bringing upon us the
innumerable masses of Russia and Asia as the natural, inevitable
punishment for our misdeeds. In Ezekiel 38:16, speaking of
Russia's coming attack upon us, Yahweh says of them, "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."
���� In Joel 2:25 Yahweh again speaks of "the locust, the
cankerworm, and the caterpillar and the palmerworm, my great
army which I sent among you." Since we already know that these
insects are used here only as a symbol, this identifies them as
being part of Russia's general communist apparatus.
���� We produce more of everything good than any other country in
the world, yet we are getting less and less of it. Our wages go into a
bag with holes, because the pro communist liberals, in our
government, are bleeding off more and more of our earnings to
distribute among our enemies, so our enemies may be made
strong. Remember how the liberals always give more to so called
neutralist nations and those, which openly side with Russia, than
they give to our few friends?
���� Remember how they always insist that our aid must be given
with no strings attached. There is no requirement that those who
receive our bounty shall not help our enemies. All this is part of the
Red plan to make the United States spend herself into bankruptcy,
as Lenin said. It is to soften us up for the kill.
���� Joel 1:5‑6 tells that this is the preparation for the final military
attack, so he tries to awaken our leaders. "Awake ye drunkards and
weep; for a nation is come up upon My land, strong and without
number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek
teeth of a great lion."
���� There is no reply; those who are not corrupt are sound asleep.
Who should have given the alarm first? The priests and ministers,
for this is all prophesied in the Bible, and they should know it. They
should warn the people of the impending punishment for our
abandonment of Yahweh's laws. They should be leading the people
back to repentance, seeking Yahweh's pardon before the disaster
strikes.
���� In Joel 1:13‑14 he urges the leaders, "Gird yourselves and
lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all
night in sack cloth, ye ministers of Yahweh: sanctify ye a fast, call a
solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the
land into the house of Yahweh your God, and cry unto Yahweh."
There is no answer. All that our ministers can suggest today is that
we cry unto Russia and make the devil's peace with them on the
devil's own terms.
���� Joel sees the inevitable disaster. It is no use to turn to man, but
only to Yahweh. "Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at
hand, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come. Oh
Yahweh, to thee will I cry!"
���� To those of us who study Yahweh's word, the present world
situation is so clear, because He foretold it all 2,500 or more years
ago. The entire picture is there for all to see, if they will only
believe Yahweh. However, they prefer to believe the politicians
and the left wing commentators. Yahweh has this to say in
Jeremiah 9:3 about them. "They bend their tongues like their bow
for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for
they proceed from evil to evil and they know not Me, saith
Yahweh."
���� Other prophets confirm this. Isaiah 56:10‑12 records, "His
watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs,
they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Yea,
they are greedy dogs, which can never have enough, and they are
shepherds, which cannot understand; they all look to their own
way, every one for his gain. Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine,
and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be
as this day, and much more abundant." We have turned against all
who gave warning. How many have been terrified into silence? As
Amos 5:10, 13 told us 2,700 years
ago, "They hate him who reproves in the gate, and loathe him who
speaks the truth. Therefore, he who is prudent will be silent at that
time: for it will be an evil time."
���� Joel 2:1 cries his earnest warning. "Blow ye the trumpet in Zion,
and sound an alarm in My holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of
the land tremble: for the day of Yahweh cometh, for it is nigh at
hand." Nahum 2:1 confirms this. "He that dasheth in pieces is come
up before thy face: keep the munitions, watch the way, make thy
loins strong, fortify thy power mightily."
���� Since we will not reform and avoid the need for war, then
prepare at once. Russia, which has shattered many nations, stands
before us. We must stockpile munitions, increase our fortifications
and watch every way the attack may start. Yahweh's warnings
always fall on deaf ears, this time also. As Yahshua is reported as
saying, to the Pharisees of His day in Matthew 16:3, "O ye
hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not
discern the signs of the times?" In Luke 21:35 Yahshua also
prophesied of the coming day of Yahweh. "As a snare shall it come
on all them that dwell on the face of the whole
earth."
���� Joel 3:9‑11 now announces the coming of the war. "Proclaim ye
this among the nations; prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let
all the men of war draw near; let them come up: beat your
plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears: let
the weak say, I am strong. Assemble yourselves and come, all ye
heathen, and gather yourselves round about." Joel 2:2 states, "A
great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like,
neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many
generations." We know that this is the attack by the Asiatic hordes
led by Russia, spoken of in Ezekiel 38 and 39, "A great company
and a mighty army."
���� Joel 2:38 pictures the use of terrible new weapons and a total
war of complete devastation. "A fire devoureth before them; and
behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the Garden of Eden
before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and
nothing shall escape them." They move with terrible swiftness, for
they have a modern mechanized cavalry of tanks and troop
carriers.
���� Both Russia, in World War 2 and China in the Korean War,
showed a total disregard of the slaughter of their own men, forcing
them to attack straight ahead. This was in spite of artillery barrages,
regardless of losses, to overwhelm their enemy under the tide of a
human sea and mine fields. Joel 2:3‑8 also prophesied these
tactics. "As horsemen, so shall they run. They shall run like mighty
men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall
march every one on his way, and they shall not break ranks:
neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his
path."
���� Isaiah 5:26‑30 also foretold the coming of this nation that hath
the teeth of a lion. Isaiah tells us, "And he will lift up an ensign to
the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the
earth: and behold, they shall come with speed, swiftly. None shall
be weary nor stumble among them; None shall slumber nor sleep;
neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of
their shoes be broken: Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows
bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels
like a whirlwind. Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like
young lions: yea, they shall lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it
away safe and none shall deliver it. And in that day they shall roar
against them like the roaring of the sea: and if none shall look into
the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in
the heavens thereof."
���� The communist hordes do plunder the conquered lands of
everything of value, from pens to factory machinery. "They leave
only a day of clouds and thick darkness. The earth shall quake
before them; the heaven shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall
be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining." This terrible
picture is painted in Joel 2:2, 10.
���� Meanwhile, what of the enemies within our own ranks, the
liberals in our government who betray us at every opportunity?
They have not repented, they cannot! Jeremiah 13:23 says, "Can
the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may
ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil." Isaiah 26:10
pictures them thus. "Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will
not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal
unjustly and will not behold the majesty of Yahweh."
���� They are still traitors. Joel 2:9 says, "They shall run to and fro in
the city; they shall climb upon the wall, they shall climb up upon
the houses; they shall enter in at the window like a thief."
���� So the picture develops. Our preparation for defense lags, both
because our leaders will not give the warning to arouse the nation
to full activity and because liberals within our ranks still sabotage
every effort to oppose the gathering might of Asiatic communism.
Meanwhile the enemy masses against us all the hordes of the
heathen, getting ready for the military attack.
���� In Joel 3:11, he realizes that our human and material resources
are not enough to stand against this massing of all the powers of
evil against us. Only by Yahweh's help will we be able to defeat
them, so he implores Yahweh's aid. "Assemble yourselves and
come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about:
thither cause Thy mighty ones to come down, O Yahweh."
Yahweh's reply is swift. Isaiah 3:12 warns, "Let the heathen be
wakened, and come up to the valley of Yahweh's judgment: for
there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about."
���� Other prophets support this. Yahweh told in Isaiah 54:15,17,
"Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by Me:
whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.
No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every
tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of Yahweh and their
righteousness is of Me, saith Yahweh."
���� It takes more than just Joel's personal prayer to accomplish this.
We, as a nation, must return to Yahweh
and seek His help. Joel 2:15‑18 warns us, "Blow the trumpet in
Zion; sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: Gather the people,
sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders. Let the priests, the
ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let
them say, Spare Thy people O Yahweh, and give not Thine heritage
to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them; wherefore
should they say among the people, Where is their God? Then will
Yahweh be jealous for His land and pity His people."
���� Isaiah 13:3‑11 confirms this. "I have commanded My sanctified
ones, I have also called My mighty ones for Mine anger, even them
that rejoice in My highness. The noise of a multitude in the
mountains, like as a great people; a tumultuous noise of the
kingdom of nations gathered together: Yahweh mustereth the host
of the battle. They come from a far country, from the end of
heaven, even Yahweh and the weapons of His indignation, to
destroy the whole land. Howl ye; for the day of Yahweh is at hand;
it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. Behold, the day of
Yahweh cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce
anger, to lay the land desolate: and He shall destroy the sinners
thereof out of it. And I will punish the world for their evil, and the
wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogance of the proud
to cease, and I will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible."
���� Isaiah speaks of the weapons of Yahweh's indignation. We saw
these in detail in Ezekiel 38 & 39, which clearly refers to the same
war. They tell how Yahweh destroys the innumerable hordes of
Asiatic communism with His weapons. Yahweh does it with
earthquakes and volcanic upheavals, storms and floods, pestilence,
panic and mutiny among the Red troop which fight each other in
their madness to escape the horrors that come upon them. They
are completely destroyed.
���� This is much more than just a war between nations, however
great. It is the day of Yahweh, which is the climax, the judgment of
the age. Joel 3:12‑14 is confirmed in the book of Revelation, given
900 years later. Yahweh tells him, "Let the heathen be awakened,
and come to the valley of Yahweh's judgment: for there will I sit to
judge all the heathen round about. Put ye in the sickle, for the
harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the vats
overflow; for their wickedness is great. Multitudes, multitudes in
the valley of decision: for the day of Yahweh is near in the valley of
decision."
���� Now we are on familiar ground. Remember Revelation 14:14‑20,
"And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud One
sat like unto the Son of man, having on His head a golden crown,
and in His hand a sharp sickle. And another angel came out of the
temple, crying with a loud voice to Him that sat upon the cloud,
Thrust in thy sickle and reap; for the time is come for Thee to reap;
for the harvest of the earth is ripe. And He that sat upon the cloud
thrust in His sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped. And
another angel came out of the temple, which is in heaven, he also
having a sharp sickle. And another angel came out from the altar,
which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to Him that had
the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle and gather the
clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe. And
the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of
the earth, and cast it into the winepress of the wrath of Yahweh.
And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came
out of the winepress even to the horse's bridles, by the space of a
thousand and six
hundred furlongs."
���� By our apostasy from the laws of Yahweh, by allowing those
who are the sworn enemies of our Redeemer Yahshua, to
immigrate, infiltrate our businesses and professions, our
government, even our churches we have let evil triumph. We see
every effort to rally the nations against evil frustrated. We see
communism set up submarine bases and rocket launching pads
just 90 miles off our eastern coast. They will next establish
footholds in South America. We see our own government's power
to defend us sabotaged from within, by the fellow travelers who
serve Russia's purposes.
���� We see our own diplomacy serving Russia's ends better than
ours, always handing Russia an unearned victory, which Russia
lacks the power to get for herself. These generations have seen the
power of these infiltrators in our financial institutions and in our
government, build up Russia from a starving chaos. Russia was
ready to collapse of its own weakness and our government, under
the influence of these alien Jews, helped build Russia to the
monster, which today threatens the entire world with slavery or
death.
���� We have seen them take China away from a friendly
government, by depriving it of the weapons to defend itself, and
hand it over to our deadly enemies as a power potentially even
greater than Russia. We present to the world a contemptible picture
of confusion, vacillation and cowardice in all our international
relations. By all human standards, we are far gone in the process of
collapse and destruction. However, Yahweh is not limited to human
standards. Hosea 4:6 gives both the trouble and the cure. "My
people are destroyed by lack of knowledge: seeing thou hast
forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children."
However, Yahweh still provides the solution, for in Hosea 13:9‑10
He promises, "O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in Me is
thine help. I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee
in all thy cities".
���� Yahweh promises us deliverance telling in Joel 2:20, "But I will
remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a
land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea and his
hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up and
his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things."
���� After Yahweh restores His way in the nation He will even give us
back the prosperity, which the liberals among us squandered
among our enemies. In Joel 2:25 He says, "I will restore to you the
years which the locust hath eaten."
���� So we see the entire picture. It is now too late to avoid the
world‑shaking catastrophe, which threatens us. It will begin as our
enemies have planned it. However, Yahweh has never let our
enemies destroy us, nor do more than punish us to bring us to our
senses. He will not let us down this time. War such as the world has
never seen, will break out in the near future. Yahweh will turn it into
the day of Yahweh, the Day of Judgment for the heathen and the
wicked nations. Yahweh will preserve those who trust in Him.