Look around, the signs are everywhere
Publisher’s note: Captain Hestilow is an acquaintance of mine who has a very sharp eye on world events and makes very astute observations via the lens of his many years of study and research of Biblical Prophecy.
Very recently, he discussed what we have been seeing playing out on college campuses across this great land, and I am grateful that he has graciously allowed me to share his thoughts, including a scriptural introduction by Dr. M. R. DeHaan with my readers.
I believe that what Captain Hestilow and Dr. DeHaan have to say is critical information for the times we are living in as prophetic events unfold right in front of us, and I look forward to more of his thoughts in the future.
Captain Terry M. Hestilow, (US Army, Retired): For those who are demonstrating and chanting “death to Israel!” Something to think hard about.
I have been working on a rewrite of four radio sermons of Dr. M. R. DeHaan, M.D., circa 1955. In one of the sermons dealing with “The Rapture of the Church,” and the daily news feeds today (2024) I thought that all of us would benefit from the opportunity to read an important prophetic word from Zechariah, an Old Testament prophet.
I am including an introduction to the Scripture passage from Dr. DeHaan’s text. It is my prayer that many today will consider what the Word of God through Zechariah speaks about what I believe is a time very soon. This is most serious. Time is short.
Terry M. Hestilow, Captain, Infantry, U.S. Army, Retired April 28, 2024
Dr. DeHaan:
Then there will follow a period of approximately seven years of terrible judgments on the earth, called the tribulation, the day of Jacob’s trouble, and indignation of the Lord, mentioned hundreds of times in the scriptures and described in great detail in the last book of the Bible, the Revelation. At the close of this period, when the nations are gathered against Jerusalem, the Lord Jesus Christ will suddenly return WITH HIS CHURCH which was caught away before the tribulation, and He will destroy the wicked enemies, deliver the nation of Israel and set up His Glorious Kingdom for one thousand years, the literal millennium upon the earth.
Zechariah says in unmistakable terms in Zechariah 14:1-12:
1. Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2. For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3. Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
5. And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
6. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7. but it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
8. And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
9. And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name One.
10. All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin’s gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king’s winepresses.
11. And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
12. And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.” Zechariah 14:1-12
“But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.” Matthew 13:16