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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Destruction in a Day.

Chapter 2: One Fulfillment: Man's Most Powerful Weapon

Chapter 3: No Respect For Life

Chapter 4: The Coming Holocaust.

Chapter 5: Horrific Prophecy

Chapter 1

Destruction in a Day

Imagine sitting on the shores of the Euphrates River, dipping your hands in the precious water, resting on the ancient banks at the cradle of civilization.

These shores have seen nearly everything, from the dawn of human civilization after the Flood to the building of the tower of Babel. They have seen the rise and fall of empire after empire, including the empire of Nebuchadnezzar, the Persians and the Medes, the Greeks, the Romans, the Byzantines, the Ottomans, the British, and the rise of Saddam Hussein.

Over these gentle hills have peered some of history's most famous and infamous men.

Alexander the Great decided to build the headquarters of his kingdom here. Darius ruled from here. Nimrod, the mighty hunter before the Lord, roamed here.

Daniel, the prophet of the Lord, prophesied here, and as a captive slave, ruled the foreign empire that had taken him under its yoke.

Somewhere along this river, in an area perhaps now under water, Adam and Eve once reclined in the garden of the Lord, and Adam named all the animals as he searched for a helper suitable for him.

History along the Euphrates River goes back as far as man himself. And, just as it was host to the dawn of history, the Euphrates River will be witness to the end of history in one of the most awesome spectacles in the history of war:

And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful. And he saith unto me,

The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. 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 17:12-17

The Book of Revelation tells an intriguing story:

Ten kings give their power and strength to the antichrist, who promptly leads the alliance into a war against God. God handily defeats the nefarious coalition, and in the end, they are humiliated.

But after their defeat, the ten kings are no longer enthralled with the antichrist, and they turn on him, attacking his capital city, Babylon, destroying it with "fire."

Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire; for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more...The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city! And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

Revelation 18:8-11 & 15-19

The passage above paints a tremendously vivid picture, a picture that has led some to believe they know what kind of destruction comes so rapidly on the great city of Babylon.

Partner, I want to be clear here: nobody knows exactly what methods God will use to fulfill the prophecies in Revelation (or anywhere else, for that matter).

The ways of God are beyond our understanding.

For instance, the scribes and Pharisees thought they understood what kind of man the Messiah would be, but when He came, they didn't know Him at all, because they, when reading the Scriptures, had not allowed for God to be God. They pigeonholed Him and thought that by their understanding

He would be forced to fulfill prophecy according to their teaching.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

Isaiah 55:8-11

God has given us the Word to read, and He has given us the Holy Spirit to help us understand, but while we are on this earth in fleshly tabernacles, we are not privy to all of His ways.

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

1 Corinthians 13:12

Our understanding right now is in part, we are not yet given the understanding of all things (we will have it later in glory, according to the Apostle Paul).

I said all that to say this: we can surmise, theorize, summarize and hypothesize, but that's all it is, speculation. Until God has fulfilled the prophecies that are yet unfulfilled, our understanding of those fulfillments is imperfect.

Our understanding amounts to educated guesses. We know

God, and based on that knowledge of Him, we can make an educated guess as to how He will do what He has promised to do.

But His ways are still higher than our ways, and He can still surprise us by the incredible ways He thinks of to do things that we never would have imagined if we had a million years to imagine it.

Chapter 2

One Fulfillment: Man’s Most Powerful Weapon

When God created man, He gave man a blessing He did not give to the animals:

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Genesis 1:26-27

The animals were all created with some sort of intelligence, some more than others. Some animals are relatively unintelligent, while others, such as dolphins and whales, are surprisingly smart.

A recent article in the Associated Press even revealed the surprising development that a common crow had developed the ability to fashion tools out of the objects it found around itself, an ability associated only with animals of advanced intelligence like chimpanzees.

Animals can be surprisingly clever. An octopus, put into a tank with a Mason jar full of food, will figure out in only a few minutes how to twist the lid off the jar and get to the food inside.

Some dogs intently watch their owners, eventually figuring out how to open doors and do pretty much whatever it takes to get where they want to go and do what they want to do.

Monkeys have even learned to talk with human beings, using sign language they learned, an ability formerly thought to exist only in humans but since witnessed in diverse life forms from dolphins to elephants.

Animals are very clever. But animals lack one thing that was given to humans by God: they lack the ability to create complex abstract thought.

Man was able to send a craft to the moon containing men, successfully land on the moon, walk around, collect samples, and then return to the earth, all because of abstract thought.

Albert Einstein's theory (now law) of relativity played a major role in the space program, and the moon landing in particular, because it accurately predicted the effects of gravity and space travel to such a degree that men could aim a spacecraft at a location where the moon wasn't even at, but it would be by the time the craft got there.

That kind of accuracy required advanced and complex abstract thought. In fact, at the time of the theory's release in the early 1900s, common understanding was, there were only four mathematicians in the entire world who possessed the mathematical skill to fully comprehend the theory.

Einstein escaped to America during the World War II era, and during that war, he was enlisted by the U.S. government to work on a project that would later become the most-regretted success of his existence: the Manhattan Project.

Einstein was not involved hands-on in the large part of the project, but he was instrumental in many of its aspects, and most of the work was firmly based on theories and laws he had earlier revealed.

The result was both exhilarating and horrifying. The scientists on the Manhattan Project created the world's first atomic bomb, and they unleashed a destructive force that is beyond the imagination.

From the beginning of history, man has used what are now deemed "conventional" weapons.

And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against, Abel his brother, and slew him.

Genesis 4:8

We don't know what Cain used to kill his brother, or if he used a weapon at all. But in man's long, bloody history of violence toward his fellow man, the list of weapons is long.

The earliest men probably used wood sticks or clubs as weapons; we don't know, because the evidence has long since rotted away.

We do have evidence of man's next weapon, however. He discovered that knocking a thin stone against another stone hardened and sharpened the edges of the thin stone, making a very powerful weapon to cut, stab and impale his enemies when attached to the end of a rod.

With the discovery of metal, man almost immediately went about the business of creating a newer, more effective weapon. Spearheads now were reusable, and more durable, not to mention the fact that they killed more efficiently than sharp rocks.

Swords were invented because man wanted a way to cut other men without being close enough to endanger himself.

Man discovered the power of a bent rod to propel an arrow through the air and kill his enemies from long distance, hence the bow and arrow were created, long one of the most effective weapons in man's arsenal.

For some, the bow and arrow weren't quite deadly enough. Looking for advantage, they discovered that if they set the arrow on fire, they could burn down their enemy's camp, or his castle.

Even that wasn't bad enough for some people. They created "Greek fire," an early form of napalm, which is simply a bunch of sticky ignited fuel, thrown with the idea of sticking to and burning the enemy.

But even that long-distance weapon wasn't enough for some. In the thirteenth century, someone discovered that gunpowder, if ignited at the end of a tube with a projectile on top of it, would thrust the projectile out at tremendous speeds, fast enough to kill.

Man invented the rifle, the pistol and the cannon to take advantage of this incredible invention for more destruction, and the Middle Ages were all but over.

However, as the guns got bigger and more powerful, some men invented tanks to withstand the force of the projectiles. Armored warfare was introduced.

When man, again using complex abstract thought, discovered how to fly, the implications for war weren't immediately recognized. But when they were, man's destructive bent was once again realized, as the war planners realized a huge hunk of gunpowder could be dropped from an airplane and destroy hundreds of enemy fighters without risking hundreds of allied lives.

By the time World War II started, man had invented even more weapons, but all suffered from the same shortcoming, allied lives had to be risked in large numbers to deploy the weapons, because the weapons were not effective at killing enough enemy soldiers or causing enough destruction.

As the war in Japan dragged on after Germany had surrendered, America realized it could be locked in war in the Pacific for decades. It decided a knockout blow had to be struck. And the decision was made to drop the most powerful and destructive weapon in the history of the world. Man began the nuclear age by obliterating three Japanese cities with weapons whose destructive power was beyond imagination. With only three weapons dropped from a plane, hundreds of thousands of people were killed.

Japan immediately surrendered. The war was over.

Man's love affair with this new, more effective way to kill people had only begun.

Nuclear weapons obtain their frightening power from the fundamental energy released when an atom is split, energy on a scale none of us can adequately imagine.

Once that cat had been let out of the bag, the world was beyond stopping.

After World War II, the Communist Soviet Union was desperate to obtain nuclear weapons because it believed it was in imminent danger from the United States, which was the only nation on earth at the time to possess the awesome power of the atom.

Using plans stolen by Americans who spied for Moscow, the Russians quickly caught up with the United States, building its own nuclear weapons and beginning the arms race.

In the late 1950s and the 1960s, the catchword was space. Many people missed the entire point of the race to space, which was not necessarily to orbit the earth.

The model for an intercontinental missile is based on the idea that you can't get there from here.

In other words, a missile launched from point A only has so long before gravity pulls it to earth. If point B is half a world away, the missile will hit the earth long before it gets there.

However, if the missile has a high enough arc, it can reach anywhere on the globe. Intercontinental missiles are based on the concept of launching them into space, where they arc, reenter the atmosphere and arrive at their targets, carrying their deadly cargo.

With the invention of intercontinental ballistic missiles, the nuclear arms race reached a heated pitch. Now Russia and the United States could literally press a button and blow each other into oblivion.

As the nations stacked up nuclear weapons, it quickly got to the point that either of them could destroy the entire planet by simply pressing a button.

Think about that for a second, partner.

God has equipped man with the ability to create weapons with the destructive force to literally vaporize the entire planet.

With that much destructive force, the nations came together and signed treaties to not use the weapons except as a means of last resort.

America created a nuclear doctrine in which it forbade itself to use nuclear weapons except in defense, and to never use a nuclear weapon against a non-nuclear nation.

Russia also created a similar doctrine, though neither side actually trusted the other to keep its end of the bargain. It was the same old story of mistrust that has caused wars from the beginning of man's existence.

Since these weapons have such power, enough power to kill millions of people with one pull of the figurative trigger, the nuclear nations of the world (which by now included France, England and China) made a pact: they had to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of nations that did not share their restraint.

Chapter 3

No Respect For Life

On September 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked four jetliners and rammed three of them into buildings, killing thousands of people and shocking a nation and the world.

What was so shocking besides the deaths was the complete disregard for human life. The terrorists were hoping to make a political statement, and to make that statement, they did not hesitate to use the biggest weapon they could get their hands on, in this case, jet fuel-packed airliners.

Immediately, the fear around the world began to pop up: what if these terrorists had access to nuclear weapons? Did anyone believe they wouldn't use those weapons in a heartbeat?

If they would callously kill thousands of people to make a statement, what wouldn't they do?

Then the hard, cold reality began to set in, one of the world's largest proponents of terrorism, Iraq's Saddam Hussein, was relentlessly pursuing nuclear weapons.

In 1995, Hussein admitted as much, and defectors had since confirmed that he was in the process of acquiring nuclear weapons. One even surmised that, by the fall of 2002, Hussein was only weeks away from having a nuclear weapon and the ability to deliver it on a medium-range missile that could reach Israel and perhaps even south Europe.

During the Gulf War in 1991, America had deployed massive bombs with the goal of destroying Hussein's bunkers, huge underground structures in which the research and development of weapons of mass destruction was taking place.

United Nations weapons inspectors later found evidence that the chemical weapons and biological weapons programs had been severely hindered by the bombings, but they found little evidence of any nuclear program, much less detriment to it.

Puzzling as that was, the world largely ignored it, even though Israel had taken the extraordinary step ten years earlier of unprovoked air strikes on an Iraqi nuclear reactor. This action was based on intelligence that had warned Israel that Iraq was making fissile material (fuel) for nuclear weapons at the facility.

However, the United Nations inspectors could find no evidence.

After the United States overwhelmed Kosovo in 1999, the reason became clear; the United States had used massive "bunker-busting" weapons on the Kosovo mountains in efforts to destroy its underground bunkers. After the Americans backed off, Soviet MIG fighter jets were removed, unscathed, from underground bunkers and taken to more secure locations.

Then the problem became clear: America's bunker-busting weapons, while powerful, were not powerful enough. Advanced tunneling techniques enabled rogue nations to dig bunkers farther down than even the most powerful conventional weapons could reach.

At the same time, defectors from Iraq confirmed that Hussein had reinvigorated his nuclear weapons program, protecting it from even the most prying eyes in deep underground bunkers that had withstood the American onslaught, unscratched.

Hussein, seeking to dispel Western tensions, took journalists on tours of his dilapidated nuclear facilities to demonstrate that they had long ago been shut down.

The defectors, however, pointed out that Hussein's most powerful work was going on underground.

The United States quietly snuck in a budget line requesting funds to develop a nuclear weapon that would allow it to destroy bunkers and deter manufacturing of weapons in Iraq.

The brass at the Pentagon made their perspective clear: most rogue nations are aware of the United States' military doctrine against using nuclear weapons on non-nuclear foes. That gives them a free reign to bury their facilities out of the reach of conventional weapons and continue their research unabated.

The U.S. doctrine was invented because of the horrific destructive power of nuclear weapons—they're just too big to be used without unacceptable consequences.

Rogue nations know that, so they're not afraid that the U.S. would use the weapons against them.

However, the brass argued, if America possessed a smaller class of nuclear weapons, in the 5 kiloton range, using the weapons would not be nearly as destructive, while still being far more powerful than any conventional weapons.

History bears out the power of such small weapons. In 1970, in a test at Yucca Flat, a 10-kiloton nuclear weapon was detonated 900 feet beneath the ground. The resulting explosion spewed a radioactive cloud of dust and rock 10,000 feet into the air.

Imagine that for a second, Partner. An explosion 900 feet underground, that's THREE football fields, blew through 900 feet of earth and sent rocks and dust hurtling 10,000 feet into the atmosphere.

And a 10-kiloton nuke is considered small.

Chapter 4

The Coming Holocaust

Nuclear weapons are not terrifying only for their explosive power, though that is certainly one of the most frightening things imaginable. After they have done their destructive work, nuclear bombs and missiles leave a residue of radiation.

Nuclear fallout can kill for years, decades, even centuries after the bomb that left it is gone.

A line from a famous movie about nuclear weapons went like this: "If this bomb goes off, this will be a really bad neighborhood for about 10,000 years."

Radiation does bad things to plants and animals, including causing genetic mutations and eventually poisoning humans to death.

Thousands of residents of the then Russian city, now Ukranian city of Chernobyl are still suffering from the meltdown of that city's nuclear reactor in the 1980s. They have astronomical rates of cancer, disease and other sickness that most experts relate directly to the meltdown.

Even relatively benign forms of radiation such as X-Rays can damage humans, so doctors who use X-Rays as diagnostic tools use special protective gear to minimize their risk.

After a nuclear explosion, all life around the explosion site will simply cease. The fallout that comes later will maim, sicken and kill thousands more than the initial bomb did.

If the world ever gets into a nuclear war, the consequences could be devastating.

Not only would the destruction from the nuclear explosions be huge, but the fallout could literally extinguish life on the planet.

The Bible seems to indicate that nuclear destruction is at least one of the possibilities for the end times.

First, there is the War of Gog and Magog.

Israel is a nuclear power, meaning it has nuclear weapons and the ability to deploy them.

Israel is rumored to have had nuclear weapons since a few days before the 1967 Six-Day War, when it hastily constructed two nuclear bombs, as it became clear war was unavoidable.

Leaked reports state that Israel's nuclear doctrine is called the "Samson option," referring to the Biblical judge who, in the midst of his greatest defeat, killed more of his enemies in his own death than he had in the rest of his life.

The imagery is frightening. Israel understands that detonating nuclear weapons against its enemies would devastate Israel itself, because it is a tiny nation surrounded by enemies and water.

Setting off a nuclear weapon in a nearby nation would devastate Israel.

Notwithstanding, if it's left no choice, the tiny nation is resolved that it will use its store of nukes to take its final stand.

Chapter 5

Horrific Prophecy

The Bible indicates that just such a thing may happen. Again, partner, understand that this is only one of many ways God could fulfill Bible prophecy. It is entirely possible that this passage refers to nuclear destruction, and it's also possible that it doesn't:

Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel: And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand. Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD. So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.

Ezekiel 39:1-7 God promises that He will send "fire" on Magog.

Partner, Magog stands for Russia.

Russia's capital, Moscow, is due north from Israel. A missile launched from Israel could easily reach Moscow and do unbelievable damage.

Such a scenario is entirely imaginable, since in Chapter 38, God prophesies that Russia will launch a massive invasion with a coalition of Israel's enemies, and the invasion will be with huge numbers of troops and weapons.

Such an attack could easily trigger Israel's "Samson option," as the Jewish state found itself facing (from a natural perspective) certain destruction. If Russia was attacking, the logical thing to do is counterattack, a missile launched from Israel destroying the Russian capital would certainly count as a massive counterattack.

However, that passage in Ezekiel is not the only suggestion of nuclear holocaust coming:

And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog. And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land. Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD. And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search. And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog. And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.

Ezekiel 39:11 16

In an effort to "cleanse the land," Israel will "sever out" men whose jobs it is to clean up the dead members of the Russian coalition. Since these men are being "severed out," it is clear that they are not the men who today serve as Israel's burial class.

Instead, it will be a special job, created specifically to bury the dead of the Russian coalition to cleanse the land.

The most intriguing evidence comes as God says travelers who see a bone will be instructed to come nowhere near it; instead, they're to notify the special department, who will come by and dispose of the remains properly.

Such a procedure, as pointed out by many commentators, is consistent with nuclear cleanup.

In other words, when God sends down fire and sulfur from the skies against Russia and its coalition of armies (Ezekiel 38), it may be that he's talking about a nuclear strike that forever corrupts the remains of the people who are killed by it.

Even that, though is not the end of the evidence.

Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. 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. Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. 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. 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. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: 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. 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. And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one. 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. And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited. 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

In this coming battle, night will be lit up as the day, the mountainous land will be made flat as a plain, and the enemies of Israel will die while they're standing up as their flesh and eyes melt away!

Partner, that sounds like a nuclear blast. It sounds like the destruction that comes from the most powerful weapon man has ever devised.

Again, God is capable of fulfilling prophecy in any way He pleases, but it is certainly doing no damage to the scripture to say a possible interpretation here is of nuclear destruction.

One more piece of evidence was uncovered earlier in this book. After the antichrist gets alliance from ten kings and they attack the Lord, He unleashes destruction on them of unimaginable proportions. In fact, if the passage in Revelation is talking about the same battle as the passage in Zechariah, the defeat of the ten kings and the antichrist will be terrifying indeed.

After their humiliating defeat, the kings will turn on Babylon and destroy the proud city, burning it with fire in ONE HOUR.

Now, Partner, this is important, because the Bible says it is the men who do this, not the Lord Himself.

The only way men can currently burn a city in one hour is to unleash nuclear weapons.

Even the most powerful conventional weapons, such as the American military juggernaut, can't destroy an entire city in one hour.

Air strikes, cruise missile launches, massive conventional bombs and artillery shells launched from warships offshore couldn't do that kind of damage in one hour.

However, what all those conventional weapons couldn't do in a day could easily be accomplished in one hour through the use of nuclear weapons, as proved when the United States bombed Japan at the end of World War II.

If these Bible verses are indeed predicting nuclear destruction, that means something very few Bible teachers have spoken about: the ten kings must be nuclear powers; at least one of them, anyway.

It has long been speculated about who the ten kings are. But the current consensus in most reputable circles is that the ten kings will be Islamic nations that join the new Babylonian empire spoken of in Revelation.

If that's the case, at least one of them will have to have acquired nuclear weapons by the time of the battle of Armageddon.

In any case, however they accomplish it, destruction on a par with a nuclear explosion will rock the city of Babylon and all the kings of the earth will gather for one final battle with the Lord—a battle the Lord Himself will fight and win!

Hallelujah!

Partner, these events continually point to only one truth, we are in the end times, and the Rapture of the Church could happen at ANY TIME!

That's why your support of our efforts to reach the lost with the Gospel of Jesus Christ are so appreciated. As we near the end, our mission is ever more urgent, ever more hurried. We must work while it is yet day, because "the night cometh, when no man can work" (John 9:4).

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Dr. Cerullo has also authored more than 160 books. Few ministers have had such an impact on the destiny of the nations of the world. Morris Cerullo's life has been sacrificially dedicated to training and spiritually equipping pastors, lay-people and evangelists to reach their nations for Christ with a supernatural endowment of God's Power.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Destruction in a Day.

Chapter 2: One Fulfillment: Man's Most Powerful Weapon

Chapter 3: No Respect For Life

Chapter 4: The Coming Holocaust.

Chapter 5: Horrific Prophecy