Daniel 11 pt. 5: The Final Warfare of Israel (The Loud Cry Verses 44-45)

These tidings out of the east and north consist of the last message of mercy to be given to the world. The Papal power is likened unto Jeroboam, but Jeroboam’s successor was Ahab, of whom we are told: “And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat…” Ahab was particularly noted in the Scriptures for his priestess wife, Jezebel, who persecuted the prophets of God and led all of Israel into even stronger forms of national apostasy under Baal worship. Any who did not honor Baal among Israel were put to death.
Yet there was a prophet named Elijah who feared the Lord, kept the covenant of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel; keeping the commandments of God, with their statutes and judgments commanded to Moses; and worshipped the true God of Israel. His faith was a distict contrast to the prophets of Baal; and under his prophesying, he declared it would not rain for 3.5 years, and the land had no rain for this time. Ahab, king of Israel, and his wife, were in fierce resistance to this Reformer who called the sins of the people into account. “And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel? And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father’s house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.”
(1 Kings 18:17-18)

As Ahab and the apostate tribes of Israel were troubled, so will the Papacy be troubled when the same messages are delivered to him from the last day Elijah, who will turn the hearts of disobedience Israel to the fidelity of the truth. “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD…Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.” (Malachi 4:4-5) The message to uphold the law that the Papacy has trodden underfoot shall be proclaimed from tongues ignited by the spiritual flame of fire calling men to repentance, “lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.” (Mal. 4:6).
This is a message for “all Israel”; not the ten tribes only, but for spiritual Judah & Benjamin also. The message will be against the apostate power of the Papal restoration, and against the apostasy of Protestantism weilding this same power over the shores of America to enforce the worship of the Papal dogmas of Sunday under the Trinity, and persecuting those who keep the holy Sabbath rest in the commandments of God. This message is declared as the message of the “third angel” giving the message with “a loud voice”; the message is a denunciation against these very ones.
“And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”
(Revelation 14:9-12)

Notice that the ones who receive “no rest” day or night are the those who honor the beast (the Papal church/state) and his image (Protestant America church/state- click here to see more); who enforce the mark of the Papacy. But it is announced that if any do not turn from these sins, they will be smitten with a curse. Those who give this message are identified with those who “keep the commandments of God”. The Elijah message is to prepare the people for the return of Christ, to receive the blessing and not the curse. Revelation 22:14 tells us this message of the loud cry of the third angel must be received if they are to enter into the heavenly glorious land: “Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.”
The reason this message comes up from the east is because it is signified as the “angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels… Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed a hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of Israel.” (Rev. 7:2) This message that comes with a loud voice is the sealing message to seal the redeemed who will stand faultless and pure before the throne of God upon heavenly Mt. Zion: “And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads…these are they which were not defiled with women (apostate churches); for they are virgins. These follow the Lamb wheresoever He goes…These were redeemed from among men…”
(Revelation 14:1,4)

Some people believe these 144,000 that aree sealed are literal Jews, but Daniel 9’s determination against the fleshly seed of Israel makes that impossible. These souls who are sealed by the angel with the loud voice from the East are the people signified by the tribes after the seven times; who are called to recognize their identity as tribes of Israel. Thus, they are called to remove their feet from error and apostasy. If they reject light from heaven; they stand in no more favor with God than did the Jews who crucified Christ. If they fail to recognize this, and crucify the light of heaven, they begin to repeat the history of the apostate tribes of Israel after the flesh who were destroyed because of their sins. This message is to go forward to declare to the people their transgressions and sins (Isaiah 58:1); it is to be made known that an apostate church that rejects light from heaven is identified as prophetic Babylon in the Scriptures, because they choose rather to adhere to the doctrines and practices of heathenism than to the teachings of the God of Israel. It is the swelling of this Loud Cry message which troubles the King of the north, and when it is received by those in his kingdom, who begin to proclaim the message, he is troubled by the tidings from his own northern kingdom. When the Northern King forces unconverted men into membership into the various apostate churches, the churches will swell with corruption; when this happens, the church numbers herself with the world, is declared to be fallen, and is ripe for judgment. /
In seeking to force God’s children to be part of her apostate communion, cries will be heard as from Israel of old while in Egypt. It is for this reason that the call is made from the servants of God at this time, as it was heard through Moses to Egypt: “And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn: And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn.”
(Exodus 4:22-23)
Thus, a people was to come out of the oppression of Egypt and the Pharaoh then, that they might enter into the glorious land. Likewise, all who are truly Israel and know the Voice of Truth will follow Him wherever He calls (John 10:3-5,16), even as a Shepherd who calls his sheep. Thus is the message of the loud cry is given to Israel who are in the midst of the apostate church of the northern kingdom (Papalism and the fallen churches):
“I saw another angel come down from heaven…And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her…” Here is the first part of the loud cry, declaring the sins of the church in enforcing pagan doctrines upon the world in the name of Christ. The second follows it: “And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities… in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.”
(Revelation 18:1-6)

As Joseph received a double-portion of the blessing, with Manasseh and Ephraim, there is a second calling out of the Catholic church for it’s sins and corruption, but also a double-portion of judgment for it’s wickedness. Those who are receive this sealing message will leave the fallen churches and take their stand with the remnant. “Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.”
(Ezekiel 37:19)
Both kingdoms will be one in the hand of Christ, having one king over them, as it was before the apostasy of the ten tribes in the glorious land. Faithful Joseph and the tribes of Israel will consist of the “the remnant” who will be “joint-heirs with Christ” (Romans 8:17): “Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.” (Amos 5:15)
The remnant who heed the loud voice of the sealing angel will leave the hand of Ephraim, which signifies those among the tribes in the hand of the King of the north, and be placed into the hand of the Lion of of the Tribe of Judah, who will reign upon the throne of David. As such, the King of the north “shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.”
The Scripture speaks of a time when it will be too late to receive this message. Like the foolish virgins who did not put oil into their lamps, and were shut out of the wedding, “I will send a famine in the land” says the Lord, “Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the Word of the LORD, and shall not find it. In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. They that swear by the sin of Samaria (the place where Jeroboam, son of Joseph, reigned)…shall fall, and never rise up again.” (Amos 8:11-14) Such is the fearful results of neglecting the light, and spurning the precious privileges and opportunities presented in understand the truth as it is in Jesus.

Around this time, the King of the north shall become established against the message of the loud cry of the third angel. The seas represent the “peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.” (Revelation 17:15) The “glorious holy mountain” does not signify the “glorious land” of America, which had it’s glory pass from it when it exercised oppressive power. The glorious holy mountain is symbolic of Mt. Zion, where the 144,000 will stand with Christ when He reigns. This is symbolic of the true church of the Son of God: “Ye have come to mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant…”
(Hebrews 12:22-24)

In the earthly Jerusalem, in the city of Judah was located Mt. Zion, where the Sanctuary was established. In like manner, the heavenly Sanctuary is established in the heavenly Mt. Zion: “Send help from the sanctuary, and strengthen us out of Zion;” (Psalm 20:2) This is the mountain which will fill the whole earth when the image of the kingdoms of this world are destroyed, according to the dream of Daniel 2. The message of John the baptist is to be repeated with added strength: “Repent ye, for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.” (Matt. 3:2) The Papacy prevents the message of Elijah’s call to repentance, to prepare for the Kingdom of God, from coming to the people. He likewise prevents the people from coming to the glorious holy mountain.
Isaiah prophesying about the establishment of the glorious holy mountain, the true church, in the last days: “The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.”
(Isaiah 2:1-3)
This is not fleshly Judah, but the spiritual remnant; it is not earthly Jerusalem, but “the Jerusalem which is above” (Gal. 4:26) To this “all nations shall flow unto it”; but Satan knows this, and has devised many ways of seeking to prevent this loud cry message from being received by the people.
In planting his tabernacle where he can best obstruct the reception of the tidings of the east and north, he creates a wall preventing the “innumerable company of angels” from the Sanctuary to move upon the servants of God that they might bear there message. This is where the Satan’s grand design of the Fatima apparition reaches it’s climatic prophecy, of a most deceptive design. The apparition who claimed to be Mary, whom the Catholics regard as the god of strongholds, demanded the consecration of all opposing forces to her, and then Satan removed them from power to give people a sense that Mary was to be highly honored. A threefold prophecy of Fatima seemed to come to pass as spoken by the deceptive spirit, which laid the foundation for the purpose of what Satan was seeking to secure. It was having established devotion to Mary via the church reigning over the kings of the earth that she called for. Once this was secured, Satan knew the loud cry of the third angel’s message, which was built upon the two previous angels, was to go forward.
Listen carefully to the vision which was shown by the apparition to the three children of Fatima: “At the left of Our Lady (Mary) and a little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the splendour that Our Lady radiated towards him from her right hand: pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice: ‘Penance, Penance, Penance!'”
What a prophecy! How deeply deceptive! Satan puts out plainly the loud cry of the third angel, giving a threefold cry to repent. Holding a sword in it’s left hand, signifying disfavor of this institutional devotion representing Mary: the Catholic church. The angel is even shown as being of higher authority, yet is demonized by the apparition. The angel is symbolized by a sword of fire, setting the world on fire; a message of judgment. As it was said of the two witnesses during the dark ages, “And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.”
(Revelation 11:5)

The testimony of the third angel, when resisted and rejected, sees judgments being poured out upon the land; yet when it is received, the message becomes as flaming tongues of fire amongst those to whom it is given. The Spirit of God is poured out and all who receive the message bear witness by pouring forth the straight truth.
Yet Satan speaks of the “arm” of Mary being raised, which is the state power. As “arms” would stand on the part of the Papacy (Dan. 11:31), even so Mary’s arm, through the kings of the earth, shall suppress the message of the third angel, and seek to quench it’s fearful warnings, and prevent it’s wonderful blessings. In the message, Satan, that old serpent that deceived our first-parents, designs that the Loud Cry of the Third Angel’s message shall be looked upon as a false message. Such is the nature of the great delusions that shall manifest themselves at the end; Fatima is only a sample of many such delusions which Satan has prepared against the holy testimony of God’s saints.
These delusions were not arbitrary permitted by God to come over the people that they might reject the truth. Rather, like the French Revolution was the natural outworking of Papal policy at it’s end, the natural result of accepting these delusions was because of rejecting the Bible in favor of the words of falsehoods preached from the pulpit.
Satan knew the Loud Cry was coming to turn people away from him to the true God. In every effort, he sought to keep the people in darkness, deceived, complacent, and indifferent. He designs that the ministers of the various denominations shall be honored as the Catholic church regards the Pope; that church creeds shall be as Papal bulls, subverting the need to study the Scriptures. It is assumed that every word from the minister, priest, pastors, and teachers should be regarded as supreme authorities on what constitutes truth, even when the Scriptures condemn his teaching and course of action.
In this hour, those who have not taken any pains to study their Bibles to recognize the truth and discern the deceptions become helpless. The over-confidence of ministers leads to them in “giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils” (1 Tim. 4:1) The acceptance of these ideas causes men to brace themselves to resist anything contrary to their preconceived ideas of truth; great blindness is upon the people. Few have made the genuine effort to throw off the darkness that they might understand the Scriptures for themselves in order to learn it’s meaning.
Adding further weight to his deceptions, because of the carelessness and indifference of the people, he is permitted to seal the deception as they receive the mark of the beast. These are prepared by the Arch-deceiver to be under delusions similar to Fatima: “And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”
(2 Thessalonians 2:11-13)
As the Papal church came under a strong delusion in Europe for the rejection of truth with the Fatima apparition, the fallen churches across the world shall meet with a similar delusion.
Satan will transform himself into an angel of light, professing to be Christ Himself. The apostles who have long been resting in their graves awaiting the resurrection at Christ’s return will seem to have visited from heaven, as Mary did, urging that Sunday sacredness was to be the correct order of heaven. We are told of this time in prophecy when the people will be under the delusion of seeking the dead as though they were alive: “And when they shall say to you, “Seek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisper and mutter”, should not the people seek their God? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living? To the law and to the testimony. If they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” (Isaiah 8:19-20)
This great hindrance, which Satan used in Fatima, was to the end that more souls would be lost. Gabriel was hindered from coming to Daniel by Satanic agency to give the understanding of the warfare of Daniel’s people that should take place. In like manner, Gabriel explains what befalls Daniel’s people in the latter days; but one of the most significant things is that the King of the north would seek to hinder the final proclamation that the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Nevertheless, the true light will shine, and all who are honest will take their stand with the remnant people of God, who keep His commandments, and have the Spirit of prophecy.
“But he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.” The King of the North should fall. Even this was portrayed in the vision of Fatima, but with the appearance that the fall of the Papal church would be a great evil to take place. On a pilgrimage to Fatima on May 13, 2010, Pope Benedict accurately stated: “He deceives himself who thinks that the prophetic mission of Fatima is concluded…there are indicated future realities of the Church which little by little are manifesting themselves… and therefore it is the sufferings of the Church which are announced.” The sufferings of the church are signified by it’s fall; but not only it’s fall, but also the fall of the ministers of every church which had acted a part in deceiving mankind to stand under the banner of Popery.
As it was related in the account of Fatima: “A Bishop (was) dressed in White ‘we had the impression that it was the Holy Father’. Other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big Cross…before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way; having reached the top of the mountain…he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him, and in the same way there died one after another the other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious, and various lay people of different ranks and positions.”
The mission of the Papacy is to set itself “in the place of God”. This warfare inevitably leads many to be overthrown. The Scripture tells as regarding the top of the mountain: “Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy.” (Ezekiel 43:12) The slain that the Pope was responsible for reached unto heaven, even the Most Holy place. Then the destruction of the apostate churches represented in the Scripture are shown.
Of Joseph, it is said: “Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.”
(Amos 5:6)

Of the little horn, it is said: “I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.”
(Daniel 7:11)

Of the Harlot who commits fornication with the kings of the earth, it is said: “And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.”
(Revelation 17:16-17)

The end of the King of the north is grievously foretold to occur at the sign of the coming of the Son of God, coming in the clouds of heaven.

“Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all the tribes of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.”
(Revelation 1:7)

With this end, we are carried into it’s continuation of chapter 12. The warfare “was long” for Israel; the deceptions were great; the enemies vigilant to overthrow the children of God, yet God has ever had a people to bear witness to the truth on the earth, and His truth will triumph gloriously, redeem wonderfully, and establish us eternally. In this warfare, though it be a most piercing cross, be faithful at all costs and thou shalt receive a crown of life. The sufferings, privations, trials, and sacrifices “are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.” Then we shall recount all that we suffered in these few short years, and say together with all of the saints, “Heaven is cheap enough!”