In this pondering, please allow me to relate something to you and do this a bit differently than I usually do. This might be closer to a commentary, but it is still a pondering. I just want to talk to you from my heart and from what God is relating to me. Please open your minds and hearts today to the Spirit of God... and though I am penning this, please understand that it is something that applies to America and truthfully in a way to the whole world in this generation.

I was watching something last night... and the terminology, “the writing on the wall”, was used. I started thinking about the biblical writing on the wall, and opened my bible intending to go to Daniel 5 where it was located, and the Bible opened to the very page that I wanted, with the words MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN in big bold letters staring up at me. I thought... hmmmmm... that’s kind of strange. I then began re-reading the account given to King Belshazzar at the end of the glory of the Babylonian Empire. That very night, the end of the reign of the great kings of Babylon... the place where man had started spreading out again after the flood of Noah... the place known as the Fertile Crescent... and the mother of so much art and culture, and false demonic idolatrous religion and witchcraft while we are at it... the place that had such great kings as Nebuchadnezzar was about to fall.

Daniel 5:22-28 “ 22 And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this; 23 But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath [is], and whose [are] all thy ways, hast thou not glorified: 24 Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written. 25 And this [is] the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. 26 This [is] the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. 27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. 28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. “

Belshazzar, a Crown Prince standing as King in his father’s stead (he was more interested in the Zoroasterism Religion according to historians than ruling his kingdom), in trying to show his own personal pride and power, thought that he would show his utter control by bringing out the sanctified vessels stolen from the Temple in Jerusalem and party with them. He thought to show his total unconcern to the power of the God of the Hebrews. The problem is that Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews really is GOD. And something happened that night that this arrogant upstart as he acted in the most foolish way that you can possibly act... as though that there is no God and that you can make light of that which belongs to Him!

Psalm 14:1 “ To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David. The fool hath said in his heart, [There is] no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, [there is] none that doeth good. “

Proverbs 1:7 “ The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction. “

And Belshazzar saw with his own eyes on that last night of the kingdom of Babylon, the part of God’s hand writing on the wall by the lampstand those terrible words of judgment... and quite literally, the Bible says that it frightened him so much that his knees knocked together.

Its that point that some people get to when they suddenly WAKE UP and realize that they have blown it and they are wondering if there is now any way out from the mess that they are making. When Daniel gave the interpretation, he gave those 4 words and then interpreted what they meant. He spoke the Chaldean or high Aramaic language when giving the meaning. But apparently the language that was written was not Aramaic since not one person there including the Chaldeans there had any idea of what the words said. Even Hebrew would have been understood, though the meaning of the message might not have. Daniel, by the Spirit of God, knew both the words and what the message meant.

Every nation that God has brought judgment against and brought down, has turned its back on the Lord... and when the iniquity came to a “full”, then God brought judgment.  

We in America are not immune to judgment, and in fact, to whom much is given, much is required. And there has been more gospel and Word of God preached and taught in this country than in the history of any other in the history of the world. Yet, we as a nation have turned our back on God and His Word and commandments. We act as fools many times as if there is no God. We are now turning against Israel after years of being blessed for blessing Israel, we think we are wiser than God and now we force Israel to tear her defenses down to her blood enemies. We are responsible as a nation when our leaders whom we elect turn against the commandments of God and we sit by and say and do nothing.

Back in Genesis, when the Lord is making a covenant with Abram, and He tells about his seed that would be Israel who would come back into the land of Canaan where the Amorites lived, and how there would come a day when God would judge them and overthrow them and give Israel their land. God said this...

Genesis 15:16 “ But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites [is] not yet full. “

In the 4th generation, his seed would come back out of Egypt and take the land because then the iniquity... the spiritual sin of the Amorites would be full. There is a balance, that when it is full and the balance is tipped all of the way in God’s judgment, then destruction will come upon a people and a nation. There are things such as repentance and revival that can balance it the other way, but when a nation’s balance shows a filling... a fullness of iniquity or spiritual sin, then destruction comes and the very land will turn against you.

What were the iniquities of the Amorites... the Canaanites? A quick list included:
1.Homosexuality (Genesis 13:13; Genesis 19:1-29; Leviticus 18:22-30; Leviticus 20:13) 2.Incest (Leviticus 18:6-30; Leviticus 20:12-23) 3.Inordinate affection (Leviticus 18:19-30; Leviticus 20:18-23) 4.Adultery (Leviticus 18:20-30; Leviticus 20:10-23) 5.Idolatry (Leviticus 18:21-30; Leviticus 20:2-5; Deut. 12) 6.Profanity (Leviticus 18:21-30) 7.Bestiality (Leviticus 18:23-30; Leviticus 20:15-23) 8.Witchcraft (Leviticus 20:6,23; Deut. 18:9-14) 9.Whoredom (Leviticus 20:1-23) 10.Dishonor to parents (Leviticus 20:9-23) 11.Murder (Deut. 12:31; Deut. 18:9-10) 12.Stealing (Leviticus 19:11-13 compared with Leviticus 20:23) 13.Lying (Leviticus 19:11-16 compared with Leviticus 20:23) - thanks to Dake’s Study Notes for the quick references.

Does this list sound a bit familiar? Do these spiritual sins or iniquities sound like the personality of any nation that you know of today? There were some others that this list did not mention... one big one was the particular murdering of children in the worship of Molech. They would pass them through the fire and burn babies and children in the idol’s hands as flames consumed them. The murdering of children.
I WOULD POINT OUT THAT BETWEEN 40 AND 50 MILLION CHILDREN HAVE BEEN SLAUGHTERED SURGICALLY IN THIS COUNTRY THROUGH LEGALIZED ABORTIONS SINCE THE 1970'S. The innocent blood of these children cries out from the ground as the iniquity is filling for this country.

In the book of Ezekiel, there is a war that is fought between modern-day Islamic countries like Iran and Syria and Libya along with a land that in Ezekiel’s day was not a real power... yet today, it is a great world power... Russia or Magog, the land north of the Caucasian Mountains and the ancient home of the Scythians. It described cavalry units in the kind of armor that horsemen of Ezekiel’s day could not carry... like full length bucklers that foot soldiers held that would cover them from head to foot and make shields one with the other... but horsemen cannot carry bucklers... but it says that they were armored with bucklers... but it makes sense today. For modern day cavalry units are tanks and helicopters and are armored from top to bottom. It described a modern day warfare between Islamic countries with Russia as a shield for them attacking Israel. And in that war, there is another character that brings a challenge to Russia as it is raping the land of Israel. This describes the world war seen by the 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse seen in Revelation 6.  But in Revelation 8, this war turns nuclear and 1/3 of the Earth’s surface itself is burned down... hailstones... would rain down and burn the earth itself... and 1/3 of the earth will die. It describes a nuclear war and it even speaks of a nuclear winter that follows as the sun and moon are darkened for a while.

Who is this country that is so destroyed in this war that does drive Russia out of Israel? Who is this country that comes to a fiery end? Ezekiel tells us.

Ezekiel 38:13 “ Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil? “

Revelation 8:5-7 (NASB) “ 5 And the angel took the censer; and he filled it with the fire of the altar and threw it to the earth; and there followed peals of thunder and sounds and flashes of lightning and an earthquake.
6 And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound them.
7 And the first sounded, and there came hail and fire, mixed with blood, and they were thrown to the earth; and a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up. “

I used the New American Standard because it is closer to the original Greek Text as including more of what was there than the KJV in this case. Sheba and Dedan is Saudi Arabia, but the merchants of Tarshish gives no doubt to who the defender of Israel shall be...and who it is that is destroyed by fire in Revelation 8. Many have speculated about the merchants... the merchants who were like young lions in their methods of gaining wealth as possibly being America. But the more obvious sign is Tarshish itself. Tarshish is an ancient trading town in the Straits of Gibralter next to an island in Spain. That town is no longer a trading town. BUT IT HAS A VERY IMPORTANT PURPOSE. In fact, you could not go to that island at Tarshish today without a valid U.S. pass. Why? Because it is the modern day Naval Base Rota. It is the largest United States Naval Base in Europe. It is there through NATO. And any time that there is trouble in the Mediterranean, we sail our forces in there quickly through the “Gateway to the Med”, Rota or the ancient town of Tarshish.

Ezekiel prophetically looked ahead in our day and saw where the challenge to Magog or Russia would come from... the United States of America. If asked, you can point this one out as the one clear prophetic passage showing America in scripture without a doubt. We will fly our Air Force units out of Saudi Arabia and Naval forces out of Rota or Tarshish... and truthfully, outside of using nukes, Russia is no match for our regular military.

This last month, Russia was seen putting military advisors into the Gaza Strip for the Palestinians to give them military advice against Israel. They also were helping siphon missile technology out of North Korea to Iran (one of the countries it will ally with in this war against Israel) that will put Europe in danger, not to mention Israel from nuclear and conventional strikes by missiles out of Iran.

In Revelation 8, you see this world war described in Revelation 6 turning nuclear at the same time some very horrific natural disasters are occurring... perhaps from the description here and in Revelation 9, the supervolcano at Yellowstone might go off. Some indication that a meteor strike could occur as well. No matter which or both, Russia will take this opportunity when America is weakest in this war, to strike us with a first strike. You read on about the counterstrike against Russia that makes the waters and land poison with “wormwood” (by the way, the name Chernobyl means wormwood... a word synonymous today with radioactive fallout poisoning). European “peace keeping” forces will take control of Iran and Libya and Ethiopia, and will push the Russian forces back into Russia after this nuclear confrontation and will set up the Antichrist’s power base in Jerusalem. But 1/3 of the Earth will in the Greek... be burned down.

Revelation 8:7 (Amplified) “ The first angel blew [his] trumpet, and there was a storm of hail and fire mingled with blood cast upon the earth. And a third part of the earth was burned up and a third of the trees was burned up and all the green grass was burned up. " [Exod. 9:23-25.]

I find it fascinating that those who have a good prophetic record such as David Wilkerson, have for the past 20 years spoken of visions of America being destroyed by fire over and over again. I myself, before I fully accepted the call of God to step fully into the ministry that God has called me into had this recurring dream of a “firestorm” that would fall on the earth... that I would preach and teach and try to sound an alarm, and though many would hear me, only a handful in comparison would heed and would be taken to safety... and I would see the storm clouds gathering and the firestorm coming. That is where I get my moniker actually... FireStorm. From the week that I repented of running from my call, and stepped into it, I never again had the recurring dream. But, now, I see the storm clouds gathering with my own eyes. I need no dream to see it.

Acts 2:16-20 “ 16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; 17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: 18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: 19 And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come: “

So, before you tradition tries to turn me off from what I just said, please consider that the Bible supports is fully. And truthfully, this is becoming a very prophetic generation as the Lord is raising up a generation that is moving in the prophetic again... with a fresh hunger for God more than the world... and crying out an alarm for the Lord is coming back and the Day of the Lord is coming.

When speaking of the Canaanites or Amorites mentioned above, God said this about the iniquities that they committed, Leviticus 18:24-29 “ 24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: 25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants. 26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit [any] of these abominations; [neither] any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you: 27 (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which [were] before you, and the land is defiled;) 28 That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that [were] before you. 29 For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit [them] shall be cut off from among their people. “

Nature is literally rising up against us. The sun has entered a time of instability the past 20 years especially and has been recognized as global warming. What had not been recognized except for a few before now is that the main reason is the sun. All other planets in the solar system that has weather has experienced just a radical if not more radical climatic changes as the Earth has, and those planets have nothing to do with our pollution. The year long dust storm that was global on Mars is a good example. A planet-wide super storm that obscured our view of the surface for months and months. This is unheard of. Gigantic super storms and climatic changes on worlds like Venus and Jupiter... something is happening.

Solar storms from the sun have been shooting off flares at a rate since 2001 that has scientists mouths dropping open. It is both changing the magnetic field of the Earth (our main protection against the radiation of the sun), and is heating up the Earth in general.

5000 year old Ice Shelves that have been there since the flood waters of Noah backed down are now melting.

The Gulf Stream is disappearing from the desalination of the ocean’s waters, which will plummet the temperatures down actually in places like New York and England and give them weather like other of the same latitudinal areas such as Greenland. Global warming will freeze the north.

The magnetic field of the earth is being distorted by this increased EM radiation from the Earth, and you see the Earth’s center heating up and causing a destabilizing of the plates... thus Super Earthquakes.

NEXRAD radar picked up concentric waves going out from New Orleans 2 weeks before the Hurricane Katrina struck it in areas that weather satellites showed there to be no rain at all at the same time stamps. What was it picking up? It wasn’t rain! And it had New Orleans as its center! Some think that weather control technology was being used. Perhaps there is a simpler and scarier explanation. An aberration or hole in the magnetic field of the earth shooting E.M. pulses out from that central hole under New Orleans that drew that storm (and those cloud’s electrical force) right over the land like a magnet. We are now in the “finger of God” and judgment area if that is so.

And if you care to, check out F,E.M.A.’s lists of the biggest disasters and the dates that they happened, and cross-reference items in the news where the American government was within one day of those events pressuring Israel to make concessions to their enemies. Check it out!

In Matthew 25, when Jesus was talking about the Kingdom of Heaven... the saved folks... the 10 Virgins... all 10 were asleep at the midnight cry. That has always disturbed me. 1 Thessalonians 5 says that we don’t have to be in darkness or asleep as the world is in their sin and iniquity. But so many are not ready. There are so many Christians who are not ready... who do not have a passion to reach other for Jesus and are not revived themselves. There are so many that are lukewarm and compromised in sin themselves and not ready for Jesus to call them home. AND THE WORLD... its like they cannot see the writing on the wall at all.

IT CAME DOWN TO THE LAST NIGHT FOR BELSHAZZAR TO SEE IT... I have no doubt that God has been trying for some time to reach America before the iniquity comes to a full. See, this can be delayed by revival. The land is starting to vomit us out... storms and earthquakes and floods and droughts... the land is turning against us. God is trying to warn us... we have left the point where God is chastening a nation that did belong to Him and now judgment has been coming to a nation who has rejected God on the most part. The final judgment has not come yet because the iniquity has not yet come to a full... BUT IT IS COMING. Many of us can sense the season... we see it biblically predicted as the last days generation scenario coming to pass... from the events in Gaza and the middle East to China and its military moves and Russia and its leanings to cuddle Islam.

Is the writing on America’s wall and the leadership of America so blind with pride that they just cannot see it yet? Does destruction have to be literally at the door before the words can be seen clearly? If so, then it has passed a point of no return.

I put it to you that there is a remnant that can have revival. Remember the Acts 2 reference. Add this to it... 2 Chronicles 7:14 “ If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. “

I believe that the land around us can be healed and we can have revival... but I think that prophetically, the nation in general is rejecting God and the land is polluted. I believe that a last days revival is occurring right now... right now... but very little of it is in America. It Is happening in spots here and there... but the main thrust of revival across the land is in 3rd world countries right now. The 10 virgins... half were wise and had the oil... the fresh anointing in them and their lights burning... and half were foolish and had not taken the oil... they were lukewarm. Not speaking of the apostate church of Sardis... as the ones trying to mainstream pure iniquity into the church and still using the name of Jesus... they aren’t even in the 10 Virgin Parable... they are apostates who do that. But of the 5 foolish virgins which seems to characterize much of the American Church that are saved, but lukewarm and compromised...

Revelation 3:14-19 “ And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; 15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and [that] the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. “

They were blind in their pride. They equated material blessings with spirituality. They were naked and wretched before God and did not even know it. The writing could have been on the wall, but they could not even see it.

If the lukewarm part of the church cannot see the writing on the wall, then at what point will the “world” know that its too late and destruction is upon it? Perhaps when the missiles are already flying.

AMERICA, HEAR THIS... THE WORD OF THE LORD IN SCRIPTURE TELLS OF US... IT WARNS US... YOU DO NOT HAVE TO PERISH WITH THE WORLD... YOU DO NOT HAVE TO GO DOWN... IF YOU WILL BUT HEED THE WRITING IN GOD’S WORD, YOU HAVE THIS PROMISE! SEE, YOU CAN BE ONE OF THE 5 WISE VIRGINS WHO HAD THE OIL OF THE ANOINTING... WHO WAS REVIVED AND GIVEN THE PROMISE THAT THEY WOULD GO INTO THE MARRIAGE SUPPER.

To Philadelphia, the promise was given, Revelation 3:10-11 “ 10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. 11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. “

And Jesus said this after describing what would come in that last 7 years before the Day of the Lord and Armageddon... Luke 21:33-36 “ 33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. 34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and [so] that day come upon you unawares. 35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. “

Don’t let the cares and seductions and troubles of this life distract you! Don’t allow yourself to become lukewarm... watch and pray always that you can escape ALL THESE THINGS that will come upon the Earth.

Matthew 25:10 “ And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. “

Jesus spoke of that open door to Philadelphia... the faithful church... the on fire church. I don’t want to dehydrate with this falling away generation. I want revival. I am seeking and humbling myself and praying unto the Lord... repenting... yes, as a Christian, I am repenting and wanting more of God in my life. I want a fresh anointing... I want to be used of the Lord to help reap the harvest before quitting time. I want to not only hear the midnight cry, but have the oil to rise up and enter into the Marriage!

THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL, BUT MOST DO NOT HAVE THE SPIRITUAL EYESIGHT TO SEE IT!

Yes, the tribulation will affect the whole world... bring judgment to the unrighteous... help turn those who will repent to the Lord... especially of the house of Israel, God will be bringing the survivors there into the New Covenant who have not up until now received the true Messiah, Jesus into their hearts. It is the birth pains or tribulation of Israel in fact. That is much of the point of the thing. It has nothing to do with the church actually.

I want to be “caught” doing God’s Will and full of the oil of the Holy Spirit... fresh oil and enough to light the flame of my life and let my light shine. I want to have part of that Marriage Supper and not have the door shut to me. AND I WANT YOU TO BE IN THAT MARRIAGE SUPPER, TOO! HOW ABOUT IT?

I challenge you today to do what 2 Chronicles 7:14 says... humble yourself... pray... repent... seek the face of the Lord God... for yourself first, and revival and healing of the land afterward. Revival comes after we repent ourselves as the people of God. Then our loved ones and neighbors will be drawn to the Lord... and God will use us in that work. But we cannot give what we do not ourselves have. We need fresh oil. We need to be burning brightly for Jesus!

THE WRITING IS BEING WRITTEN... and in fact, in a way, it was written in the Word of God and I gave you some parts of that word from the Bible in this pondering. And now that we are in the generation of seeing it come to pass... so many have blinded eyes to the writing.

JESUS CHRIST IS COMING SOON... why do we live like there is no God... why is it that the people of God live so many times like there is no God in sin and defiance against the Lord who loves them and gave so much to give them life and hope. Why do we live like there is no consequences to our sin, when there is biblically... and in reality. Why do we live in such pride that we cannot see our own peril?

Belshazzar had no idea that he was sealing the doom of his kingdom that night in that final act of defiance. I think of Mr. Bush this week, who after speaking of his faith in Jesus Christ, is negotiating with the blood enemies of Israel in defiance to God’s Word... promising to smooth the way for them to take more of Israel’s land... and put their forces in a better position to attack Israel. And I wonder at what point that America’s iniquity will come to a full?

I don’t know when the MENE MENE... given twice for the gravity... when the time is up.

I have no idea when the TEKEL... the balance will swing all the way over.

In our case it won’t be UPHARSIN or PERES... same Aramaic word actually... in our case, it will be MAGOG and maybe FIRE... something along those lines biblically.

We know we are in the season... how close is it? How close??? Why are we not doing what God called us to do? Why are we as in the parable standing around the marketplace ignoring the Lord of the Harvest as He is trying to get workers to work the harvest before it is too late to reap? Why do we not awaken out our sleep and walk in the Spirit as we are told to do?

Ephesians 5:14-20 “ 14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. 15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, 16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord [is]. 18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; 19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; 20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; “

This is the will of God for us. THEN WHY ARE SO MANY NOT DOING HIS WILL? Why are so many in fact living like there is no God, while they attend God’s churches and use His name and still live like HE and His will do not matter.

AWAKEN IN JESUS CHRIST’S NAME!


FireStorm








Written on October 18, 2005 by James Coldiron’s hand as God directed.

Copyrighted 2005 by James Dale Coldiron and Voice of the Watchman Ministries