Threshing Hour

Dreading Armageddon & the Great Apostasy? In 1973, we were taught the world is heading for a cataclysmic war but believers in Jesus were not to worry because we would be raptured, whisked away before it began. For those left behind, however, a charismatic world leader would emerge and broker a seven-year peace-treaty between Israel and the Arab nations. This would then disintegrate into World War III in which two-thirds of the Jews would be massacred, i.e. double the toll of the Holocaust. This view has been widely promoted by the Schofield Reference Bible (1909), Hal Lindsay's The Late Great Planet Earth (1970) and Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins' Left Behind series (1995) but half of these events will never happen. The very name Har-Magedon, a prophetic name for Jerusalem used by John and inspired by Zechariah, was to reveal that this battle will be an utterly overwhelming victory for Israel and the Jews, preceded by an outpouring of the Holy Spirit in which 90% will become 'Jews for Jesus', as explained in Book 4, Silencing the Witnesses. And what of Babylon the Great? In the 16th century Luther, Calvin, and the Reformers believed it was the Roman Catholic Church, the all-powerful European institution in their day. However, so much changed in the 20th century with the reforms of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965); in 2008, Benedict XVI pronounced that Luther's teaching of 'justification by faith' was right all along. In this book, Graeme shows that Babylon the Great is much older than Catholicism - almost as old as Creation - as well as much larger and more pervasive than we may have suspected.