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There has been much discussion about a place of refuge in the latter days and specifically during the Great Tribulation. The Holy Scriptures are stacked with promises of God's divine preservation and protection, even during the very same time as world history for this present premillennial age is coming to its appointed climax. All Bible prophecy points to this awesome future time of trial and witness, of tribulation and glory.

Christians with a Biblical world view and reading Psalm 2 know for a fact that this present world system, the 1700 year old Constantinian Accord of the Christian Church and the secular kings of Europe is nearing the end of its shelf-life. It has seen many wonderful things and terrible histories as well. But from the outset it was a marriage of compromise, an ecclesiastical consort with worldly princes. It was an arangement of expedience for protection and security. It was was not meant to last forever.

For 2975 odd years, ever since the Breach of Jeroboam, the lost House of Israel, hidden in plain sight in the West, has been without its rightful sovereign, the Shiloh of mention by Jacob in Genesis 49. It is the royal Jewish House of Judah that holds the true scepter, the throne, and sovereignty it once had under King David and King Solomon. It is that sovereignty in the royal House of David, even under the Son of David, that must be restored to the Church. Only Messiah in the hearts can do that, and then later with the Second Coming of Messiah to His Holy City, Jerusalem.

The returning Christ, the Son of David, the Lion of Judah, is the key to the full reconciliation, reunion of the two houses, and full restoration of Israel. He will be proclaimed in the future 70th Week of David. And His Good News of salvation and deliverance will continue to expand globally in the hearts of the redeemed, bringing into His gates people from every nation, race, and tribe. Messiah will return to His Holy City Jerusalem as Deliverer of the captives of Zion out at Mystery Bozrah, and Deliverer for the Jewish defenders of His Holy City at the siege of Armageddon.

There must be and there will be a conclusion and a climax to this present humanistic age. And why? Because it is ruled by profane men, accountants, politicians, and technocrats, who so far seem only attentive to economics and politics. Being dismissive of the sovereign oversight of the God of Israel they cannot see above the horizon. They are unable or unwilling to comprehend the spiritual dimension to the unfolding story. Nor can they appreciate His all encompassing Peace Plan to reunite both Houses of Israel, bring in the end-time Harvest of souls, and bring world history of this age to its appointed consummation.

Does this world need a Deliverer? Absolutely! As the hierarchies of fallen men go global, in the compromise the corrupting influence of political power and wealth of position they become self-serving. Men are inclined to wax worse and worse, just as the scriptures state. It is because of their their carnal ways they are bound to bring this world into deadly peril. As spoken of by Messiah in the Olivet Discourse a nuclear breakout at the very end of this age will occur, only be halted by the intervention of Messiah. Those evil days will cut short, and the reign of the Antichrist and False Prophet will be terminated, right on the day appointed. Yes, Jesus Christ, Yeshua Hamashiach, is the One who will "save the planet". See Mark chapter 13 verse 20.

So we need not upset ourselves about the moral decline of the West, its open borders of self-harm, and the national suicide going on. Yes, in the wanton lawlessness its flags are being burned by angry men and women. The prophet Daniel in Daniel chapter 9 verse 26 identifies them these destructive sacrilegious mobbing "the people of the prince who is to come".

These people have been with us since Cain slew Abel. They are the same profane mobbing people who cried "crucify Him", and burned the Temple against the orders of General Titus. Many of these unhappy triggered "woke" souls may belong to the coming Antichrist right now. But perhaps not forever. It may be that by God's grace many of them will be saved, and delivered from the folly they drifted into.

We cannot deny it. Lawlessness is endemic in throughout what was once Western Christendom. It is just as King David wrote in his prophetic song in Psalm 2. There is a conspiracy going on within the nations. The principalities and powers are conspiring to stop the witness of the servants of Messiah. They are being driven by their lesser angels to deny the access of Messiah to the hearts of men. On the other front they are desperate to deny Messiah His return to His Holy City, Jerusalem. Both of these campaigns by the bad apple angels on God's Heavenly Court will fail. Asaph, the songwriter for King David gives us a look-see into what goes on up there on the Divine Council and God the Father's stern rebuke and promise of judgment. King David included it for us in his song list. It is there to read in Psalm 82.

Yes, as we survey the end-time we need to take courage. Because all is not lost. Not by a long shot. And while the fear agenda is being pushed heavily by evil principalities and powers and brought into law by the men they own, God is still in control. He is sovereign over the unfolding of what our German friends from the House of Gad call "heils geschicter", or Holy History.

The boundaries and limits of the raging nations are set by God Almighty. He stands as it were at the seashore, even as the billowing foaming waves crash on the shore. Job heard Him saying,

Job was shown this. It was his defense against his accusers, and his blessed assurance,. God is in control. He will make all things right.

Then at the consummation He will be gathering all His covenant to Himself, carrying them across the threshold into the glory He has planned for them.

The vanity of profane men seemingly knows no bounds. But they will run up against those bounds with the return of the Son of David. The fool has said in his heart that there is no God. In the mirror of their own narcissism Illuminists see themselves as highly sophisticated and well able to bring in their Utopian dream, a New World Order powered by man and machine, controlled by man and computer, guided by man and his programs, and every bit as successful as Gene Roddenberry's "Federation" in "Star Trek". But the humanistic dream can and often does turn out to be a nightmare, like "Babylon 5". Dark angels hover over and around their human underlings to concoct these vain imaginings. By this means a host of intelligent and otherwise sane people are being seduced and brainwashed into what is described in this book, "The Lie of the serpent".

Those who know their history realize that humanistic God-denying Utopians and the dreams and ideas they spawn, have given rise to some of the most tragic histories this world has ever seen. The killing fields of Cambodia are a case in point, taking a quarter of the population, especially ones who wore glasses, and looked like they may be responsible intelligent souls. Can we conceive of the terrible depth in this horrific evil. Is a single strata of peasants the recipe for a perfect world? Or will it inevitably lead to the emergence of new tyrants, and the rise to power of the very worst people we could ever have imagined? This terrible and bloody history emerged from some lofty socialist ideas that were spawned in the Communist coffee houses in Paris.

The occultic Thule Society was a powerful influence in the formation of the national socialism of Hitler's Germany. We need not mention the lofty humanistic ideas of Marx and Engels and their application in Russia and in China. Rudolph Rummel in his book "Death by Government" estimated about 61 million deaths under Russian communism between 1917 and 1987, this according to the University of Hawaii System. He later revised this estimate upward to approximately 148 million deaths for all communist governments from 1900 to 1987.

The Chinese communist genocidal outrages against humanity were even greater. 75 million were shot dead or otherwise disposed of in the "Great Leap Forward" and the "Cultural Revolution" under Mao Tse Tung. See this movie, "China Cry" put out by Vision Video and available to watch on YouTube. These were profane secular leaders, driven by cold economics and the expedient politics. These were the Machiavellian machinations of unbridled godless, man-centered humanistic power. Can the pagan sceptics really point to religion as the main cause of wars?

New Age globalist oligarchs and elitists will affirm confidently that "all things considered" they have everything under control, and that mankind under AI and transhumanism can achieve the "singularity" and man can become god . Utopian socialists imagine that they will "do better next time". But they are deceived. The Holy Scriptures affirm quite the contrary. Humanistic godless rule in the latter days will cause only greater tragedy. Messiah will have to intervene to "cut short" the time of these terrible outrages against humanity and the hidden attacks upon the ecosystems of this created world.

Men, left to their own devices, are not getting better and better. They are getting worse and worse. The truth is that they are being coaxed along into deeper and deeper darkness by their lesser angels. Such people, aided and abetted by an indolent lukewarm Laodicean church will take this world down with them, to a point of crisis where the God of Creation as the ultimate Crisis Manager must step in, awaken His covenant people from their slumbers, to engage the spiritual war. In the temporal arena on God can intervene to stop the deadly uncontrolled outworking of humanistic folly.

So what is going to happen? In a future time under godless leadership the nations of Israel and Western Christendom will give up their sovereignty to make a seven year covenant with a godless global peacemaker. He will stand aside to let the committees of multi-faith religion rule for the first 3.5 years. The promise will be given of nuclear disarmament and world peace. This will work for a while. John saw a compromised harlot riding and attempting to rule the ten horned beast system. He was initially in admiration of what he was seeing. He had never seen a dominant church before. Then he went on in his vision to see the inevitable outcome. We can read about what John saw in Revelation chapters 17 and 18.

3.5 years later, at the midpoint of Daniel's 70th week, the antichrist will be possessed by the beast demon of the Abyss to become a blasphemous beast, the 666 Antichrist. The evil spirit of "self" that God's covenant people have compromised with here below and thereby loosed in the heavenlies above will emerge in malevolent power. He will become the "man of sin" they have invited to be their global leader. He will then will turn on them, this entire created order here below into great tribulation and great peril.

Eventually this world will be brought to the very edge of global catastrophe. The prophet Joel, (see Joel 2:30,31), Jesus in the Olivet Discourse, (see Mat. 24:29,30,31) and John, (see Rev. 6:12,13), all tell of a future time right at the end of this age after the tribulation has ended in those final 30 days of the 1290 days spoken of by the angel Gabriel in Daniel 12. During these days of the cosmic signs the sun will turn to darkness, the moon to blood, and an epic meteor shower with stars falling. Right there at the end of this age at day #1260 some unprecedented world event will have seen the atmosphere of this planet polluted to produce these great cosmic signs. The prophet Joel speaks of "blood and fire and pillars of smoke". See Joel 2:30. This looks very much like nuclear bombs going up as a mushroom cloud.s "pillar of smoke" amidst terrible bloodshed, threatening us with total global disaster, right at the end of this age. Only the intervention of Messiah will be able to step in and halt this.

The prophet Joel links these cosmic disturbances with the close approach of the Day of the Lord. See Joel 2:31. Joel goes on to tell us that people are still being saved at this late hour, even as Messiah delivers Jerusalem from the armies of the raging of nations at the Battle of Armageddon. See Joel 2:32 The cosmic signs of the sun turning to darkness and the moon to blood would appear to signal the beginnings of a nuclear war, a global catastrophe which will only be stopped and put a halt to by divine intervention of the return of Messiah. See the words of Jesus on this matter in the Olivet Discourse in Matthew 24:22 and Mark 13:20. The cosmic signs of the sun turning to darkness and the moon to blood will be a sign of impending doom and gloom for the wicked. And yes, many others who have neglected God and now regret this deeply will be mourning when they see Messiah come.

But Joel's message also includes some very good news. The cosmic disturbances mark the climax of something very wonderful. This is something that Bible teachers have not reported to us. Because in association with these late cosmic disturbances the prophet Joel saw the climax of the Holy Spirit outpouring.

Yes, the Holy Spirit will be fire up inside the Great Tribulation, right from the start on the fulfillment of Yom Teruah, the Feast of Trumpets. This awesome end-time spiritual awakening is part of

This is something our dispensationalist Bible teachers are not telling us. They paint the whole seven years at the end of this age as a chamber of horrors, with no Holy Spirit, no salvation, no viable or substantive witness of the saints, and no end-time glory. This is a grievous lie, insofar as it it demeans the character of God.

He is the Shepherd-King, who as one might expect, brings ALL His family home at the end of the story. It is His vowed intent and purpose is to commission His Servant, greater Israel with Him, and all their companions, to be His witnesses, to be "a light to the Gentiles", to take His great salvation "to the ends of the earth". Here we see the Great Commission being presented in the Old Testament.

To state the obvious, the Holy One of Israel has given His life blood for His family, ALL of them. Not one of them will fall from His hand. Not one of them will be "left behind". He is like "The Man from Snowy River". At the sounding of the tekia, the needed action will be taken. Our Messiah is bound and determined to bring the wanderers home, every mother's son of them!

So, among God's Elect this end-time flooding of all flesh by the Holy Spirit will only bring increasing awakenings and revival. And as the prophet Joel clearly outlines for us, this wave of glory that comes with the End-Time Holy Spirit outpouring will power up and come to its appointed climax at the end of this age!

The Holy Spirit outpouring Peter spoke about 2,000 years ago is the same Holy Spirit outpouring Joel spoke about many hundreds of years before Christ. This Holy Spirit outpouring which began at the fulfillment of the Feast of Pentecost back in the year of the passion of Christ will increase to fire up many wonderful and historic awakenings powering up right on through the Great Tribulation to finally come to a peak and CLIMAX with the Apocalypse or unveiling of Messiah! Can we set aside the yellow eschatology we have been taught? Can we get a handle on this good news? Can we open our hearts and minds to receive God's encouragement as we approach the end-time witness in the latter days?!

Yes, this world is in deadly peril. But there is good news to be found, even inside the end-time drama. Someone will eventually come to deliver His beloved people. Then after the Judgment at the Last Day space-time will unzip, the heavens open as a scroll, and in the Day of the Lord He will loose the angels of wrath upon His enemies. (See Mat. 13:30). These hideous creatures will carry their people off to destruction. (See the words of Jesus on this matter in Mat. 24:28 and Luke 17:37). The wicked as tares will be gathered first. (See Mat. 13:30). He will also come in to complete His great deliverance, to gather His people in the Resurrection-Rapture, thank God!

Our returning Messiah will come and cut short the folly of men, who will have been careening toward total global apocalyptic disaster. He will save the planet, a planet in rebellion, save it from utter destruction; and as we read the Gospel accounts, apparently just in the nick of time. This much we know.

But what of God's Elect during those final seven years of this age? What will happen to these precious people as they come into the hands of those evil Utopians, the crisis managers of secular humanism and the then dominant the harlot rulers of religious humanism who presumptuously want to anoint the Holy Place right now and establish their Kingdom Now and force in their ecclesiastical takeover before the coming of Messiah? How will they fare in those first 3.5 years under the harlot system?

What happens after the midweek abomination of desolation and during the subsequent reign of the 666 Antichrist? Will there be some sort of refuge, for 666 rejectors, especially for women and children during that time? How will God's covenant people be protected during the Great Tribulation and the final 3.5 years of this age?

We know a false messiah will rise up in the latter days, along with his minions. His worshipers are already gathering and celebrating. Just look at our culture today as it slip-slides into godless anarchy and barbarism.

Profane people prefer profane leaders. Republics eventually decline into democracies. And like the democracies on pirate ships, democracies of people who reject God end up as mobocracies. Then in the chaos that ensues and the battle begin they switch over to being autocracies again.

Mob anarchy without a spiritual stabilizing influence will lead to chaos. And that opens the door to militant crisis managers. Without a return to God revolutions lead on dictators and tyrants. Remember what happened when the French Revolution adopted human reason as their guide and rejected God? They got the Reign of Terror. In this awful anarchy the mobs in the street took the lives of many fine French people at the guillotine. As the cycle continued it led to dictatorship under Napoleon. Then came decades of the Napoleonic Wars, a crushing defeat on the battlefield at Waterloo, and on the seas at the Battle of Trafalgar. The French, a very intelligent, gifted and talented people, were left devastated. The only recoutrse left for good French people was to leave the country and migrate to a better life in the English-speaking world. Today they are in a spiritual void, and have written the nihilistic play "No Exit". They are in a state of existential emptiness in their culture, an angst of the soul from which they and are yet to see a spiritual revival and recover.

No, the mob can never be trusted. The godless anti-Messianic mob called for Barabbas to be released and cried out for Jesus to be crucified. It was the godless woke mob, not the Romans, who burned the Temple. General Titus himself drew sword and tried to hold them back. The apostle Paul sought refuge under the justice afforded by Rome when a mob had made a pact to kill him.

Jesus prophesied that His covenant people, the ones He has called to Himself, would reject Him. 2,000 years ago He came in His Father's name. And His people didn't receive Him. Jesus went on to say that in a future time some pretender will come along and present himself in his own name. This Luciferian narcissist will be proclaiming the "god of Self", who is Lucifer, the one who boasted, "I will be like the most High God". This false messiah, this imposter, will be lifted up by the Judeo-Christian masses. Amazingly, many of the people God has called will be right in there with the profane people of this world. The people God has called to Himself will make a big mistake. They will choose a man who is a worshiper of "Self". What's more, they will proclaim him and install him as their world leader. Jesus laid out this very clearly. He said,

Quite clearly God's covenant people will find themselves at the apex of Western history. Will they need a refuge?

What will happen to God's chosen people when the Kraken wakes at the midpoint of the future 70th Week of Daniel? What will be their destiny during those final 3.5 years of this present evil age? Is it all just a chamber of horrors and nothing else as our current Bible prophecy teachers affirm? Or do we have a God who empowers His people in God's witness during their hour of trial? And do we have a God who provides a place of refuge during this awesome future time? And do not the Holy Scriptures show Him intervening at the climax of humanistic foolishness at the end of this evil age?

Those who know their God understand certain things that profane and nominal Christians do not understand. A true Bride will always love her Bridegroom. She will be faithful, loving him to the end, come what may. A genuine bride will be totally committed to her Beloved, even unto the death. For her there is no grief. Nor is there any pain in this witness. When the challenge to her devotion comes she will speak out willingly on behalf of the One she loves. Not for one moment will she stop to think of the consequences of her testimony. She will not hesitate to present her witness to her Bridegroom even before hostile men prodded on by their dark angels. The frantic and terrified principalities and powers of this present world system cause great fear, anger, and agitation among the children of disobedience. The human stooges know nothing. But the angelic rulers pulling their strings do. They know that this end-time witness of the saints during the 5th seal will lead on to the 6th seal. And at this point Messiah will return and seal their doom.

So the final witness of the saints during the great Tribulation is an issue of unconditional sold-out Agape love. This is the divine anointing that empowers the information war and a victorious climax in the Apocalypse, the unveiling of Messiah. This is the zeal that captures the hearts of the true saints, drawing them into the arena of the latter days and signing them up to run the final leg of the relay race of the ages. Here too we see the Benjamin company and the Tribulation Saints of Revelation 7. And this is the victory that places them at the head of the parade of the saints, the First Resurrection company John saw in Revelation 20:4 and Rev. 20:5,6.

So this is not a theological mind game we are having here. It is a devotion. It is in this devotion that a true Bride will prepare herself as a wise virgin. There is an infilling of the Holy Spirit. In this she will have her reserve of oil against the coming night. And no man or devil will be able to discourage her or bring her to the point of "burnout". When the midnight hour comes and the lamps are burning low a true Bride will not turn back as others will in the Great Falling Away. She will go on the fullness of the Holy Spirit, joining others in the great camp revival of the latter days. She will take her resolve, leave her place of comfort, and with her lamp shining brightly go out into the dark night to meet her Bridegroom. This is the divine romance of the latter days, a glory that beggars description. And yet it is not spoken about.

Total commitment sounds extreme to us in the western church. We have been raised up and immersed in a smorgasbord of religion, a world of "choice", pre-nuptial contracts, and business contracts with embedded clauses laying out "grounds for termination of the contract". But it will be a new fully committed Tribulation Church, a Congregation set apart in holiness that will bring in the final witness. When it comes to its appointed end this will be the testimony that will trigger the Apocalypse of Messiah. This is "the few", the "little flock", the small 1% broken vessel company in the army of Gideon.

Remember the small company of 300 men in the army of Gideon? Lighted brands were hidden in their earthen vessels as they surrounded the army of the Midianites. When the vessels were broken the Light of God's divine Presence shone forth dispelling the darkness. This bright shining company with all those lamps burning brightly caused the enemy to panic. By this means, and not the sword, the enemy was routed, killing each other as they fled. This was the shining witness that brought a great and glorious victory for Israel under Gideon that day. This is not just a Bible story of a past event. It is a pattern of things to come. The Light of the God of Israel is still being hidden in human lives, even a treasure hidden in earthen vessels. There will be a showdown, a final battle between God and Lucifer at the end of this age. Many earthen vessels will be broken. And the Light of Israel will be shining forth. This is the Light that shines in the darkness. And the powers of darkness, not being able to stop this, will be soundly and totally defeated.

True Christian believers know that there is a spiritual battle to be won and that they are vitally and personally involved in this. There is a race to be run. And it must be run all the way to the finish line. They know that eventually some company of saints must complete the relay race and bring the baton across the line at the end to win that race. They also know that holy history awaits this moment. They know that they are personally engaged in this and are also corporately involved as a company. They also understand that in this final epic leg of the relay race they do not run just for themselves. They run on behalf of the entire Nation and Congregation/Church of the God of Israel. They run on behalf of all the saints who have ever lived, from every nation, race, and tribe, Jew and gentile, from both sides of Calvary. See Revelation 7:9,10. All who have cried out to God and found salvation in Him await that final witness. The whole creation and the entire angelic host in the realms above stands on tiptoe awaiting the revealing of the sons of God. See J.B. Phillips translation of Romans 8:18-21 A grand climax and a glorious celebration awaits all the Elect at the conclusion of the race.

What has happened here? Surely they have entered into a serendipity. They have found the oil of anointing and with it the oil of gladness. They are happy to face the trials and face the outcome, whatever it might be. This is the company of the "man-child" given birth to by the woman of Revelation chapter 12. The woman we see in Holy Scripture, the same woman that we saw in Genesis is in confinement and in travail in the latter days. We were told back then that she would give birth to a Seed, even Christ, the promised Seed of Abraham. The Holy Spirit speaking through Moses in the Torah declared that the Seed that would enter the woman and later be brought forth out of the woman would crush the head of the serpent to terminate his rule here in this cosmos. That promised Seed is Christ, Messiah, the Anointed One. And here we see the grand conclusion to the saga. It finally comes to pass as the end-time saints bring their "final witness" to Christ. This is an issue that goes beyond legality and cold theology. The saints bring in the final witness even as a Bride testifies of her love for her Bridegroom. It is "unto death do us part". And as the final 3.5 years of this age comes to its appointed climax the Woman we see in Revelation 12 gives birth to the "man-child".

Is there a physical survival issue here? There certainly is for the woman. This is especially true for women and children in the future era of 666. The God of Israel will gather His little flock as a mother hen gathers her chicks. He will perform this great deliverance in the Year of Jubilee. The Bible clearly states, twice, that she will be given the wings of a great eagle. See Rev. 12:6 and Rev. 12:14. He will provide for her passage to a place of safety and nurturing for the 1260 days, 3.5 Biblical years of the coming Great Tribulation.

Is there a physical survival issue for the man-child here?
No. Not at all.
The whole issue of physical survival is not even in the picture.
It is totally irrelevant.

Such is the Way of Benjamin.
His mother Rachel wanted to call him "Ben-Oni",
"Son of my Sorrow" as she lay dying.
But his father disagreed.

Jacob declared, "No, his name is Benjamin!
Son of My Right Hand!"

During the latter days, just as we saw with Gideon's army of 30,000, there will be a great falling away of those who formerly held to the faith. Like the seed sown on stony ground that grew up for a season then withered and dried up there will be a great apostasy. And there will be a Great Falling Away of many of those who were once Christians. Our Apostle Paul spelled this out for us very clearly in 2Thessalonians 2:1-4. A time of darkness is coming. And at the time of the midnight cry as the lamps are sputtering and burning low many will awaken from their slumbers to realize that they have no oil to resupply their lamps. An awful moment of truth will have arrived. They will not be able to go out and meet the Bridegroom. There is a warning against spiritual negligence and unpreparedness here. See this YouTube video

What will be happen in the latter days to get us into such a low state? There will be trials and tribulations which in those who are not prepared a terrible compromise of the faith.

And there will be an element of the church that becomes a runaway bride. In fact there will be a rout, a veritable desertion of the faith that was once delivered to the saints. Many of the ones who are deserting the faith will be the ones to make a covenant with a false messiah. See John 5:43. And let us not be unmindful of this. During those days a Harlot Church will be rapidly gathering angry former Christians and recruiting them heavily in their efforts to take global dominion. John saw this incredible vision of the harlot riding ten horned beast of the New World Order. He describes the specter in Revelation 17:3,4,5,6. He was absolutely amazed, even flabbergasted at what he was seeing.

Such are the consequences of sheepishly going along with the crowd. A compromised lukewarm Laodicean Church causes faith to languish. Are we content to go along with the crowd, headed straight towards this unhappy state of affairs? Or should we seek the fullness of the Holy Spirit now, while there is still time?

The Holy Scriptures are plain. The Holy One of Israel states clearly that He will be gathering all of Jacob, that being all 12 tribes, both houses of Israel, the full Congregation-Commonwealth of Israel, all His covenant people, "as the sheep of Bozrah." He will gather all of His called out covenant people, the redeemed from every nation-race and tribe at places or a place we might call Mystery Bozrah.

This place of exile given to us in Scripture. In Micah 2:12-13. And in Isaiah 63 we see that this mysterious place alluded to is Bozrah, a word that means "sheepfold".

There is a sovereign nation and a biblically recognizable people behind the name Bozrah. Bozrah is a ruin of a city in Edom. The ancient land there southeast of the Dead Sea belongs to the children of erstwhile godless Esau, the Edomites no less. . From Revelation 12:6 and Rev. 12:14 we see that this is a place of exile and of nurturing And the cross reference in Micah 2:12,13 indicates

And why? Because of the confined space in the rock canyons and the powerful explosive nature of modern weapons. Even mortars and artillery would be devastating in such confined quarters. But bombs and missiles are now quite able to deliver ordnance hundreds of miles with pinpoint accuracy. One air burst fuel bomb down in those deep gorges would turn the whole canyon into an raging inferno. All the oxygen would be sucked out, asphyxiating the people.

We saw these things happen during the terrible firestorms set off in closed spaces during the allied bombing raids of Hamburg, Cologne, and Dresden during World War II. The people in those enclosed canyons would be incinerated or be asphyxiated in their caves. That would be the end of all the people seeking refuge in Petra.

If there is a modicum of good news to be gleaned from Micah's prophecy why do Bible prophecy teachers of the merchant church keep it hidden? The well-documented story of "Mystery Bozrah is being switched out and replaced by false story of a supposed Jewish escape to a rock canyon in Petra in the time window of the Battle or siege of Armageddon.

This is truly unfortunate. Because it belittles the epic grandeur of the End-Time Exile In Mystery Bozrah, as well as hiding from view the Messiah, coming to His sheepfold as the Breaker, the Deliverer, in the Magnificent Bozrah Deliverance See In Micah 2:13 and In Isaiah 63.

The Bozrah story tells of a massive ingathering and deliverance of God's people at the end of the age. It involves the covenant people of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The time of "Jacob's trouble" is very much in focus here. Also the "affliction of Joseph".

So, what will be going on there in this place of refuge? Are the sheep of God's pasture held captive under the jurisdiction of the wild, untamed, and Godless children of Esau? And what should be our disposition to Esau as he challenges Jacob in the latter days? Does the book of Genesis give us a clue to that final meeting between the two patriarchs, the sons of Isaac and Rebeccah? What wonders might there be there, recapitulated again, for us to behold?

The phrase "sheep of Bozrah", and the fact that Bozrah means "sheepfold" and the fact that Bozrah was a pastoral city in Edom, the land of the children of Esau, are interesting. In fact, they are all valuable clues; that is, if we are interested in connecting the dots.

The Edomites are a big story in the latter days. These people as prophesied are still living amongst us in the rich places of the earth today. An epic future time, the 70th Week of Daniel, will see the Edomites rise up in even greater ways than we are now seeing, and just as Isaac prophesied. (See Gen.27:39,40) The wild children of Esau will shake off the yoke of civil behavior and rise up to be given dominion, just like the Herods were under Rome.. Esau will begin to lord it over nurturing Jacob and over God's covenant people as we come into the latter days. These will be sorts of times of trial that engender patience.

The prophet Micah sees the second coming of Messiah bringing the grand conclusion to the entire saga. He sees the Shepherd of Israel entering His sheepfold in the hours before dawn. Out there, when His people are held "as the sheep of Bozrah" He intervenes in spectacular fashion. He returns on eagle's wings over Bozrah, entering into His sheepfold as "the Breaker".

This wonderful Bozrah Deliverance prophecy is hidden. It is "cloaked" by the powers that be. And why might that be? Perhaps it is because a Bozrah deliverance presupposes a previous Bozrah exile. And might the captives of Zion be in view here? In this present time of ease and plenty, this would be a very unpalatable sermon topic to dish up.

We are looking here at an epic internment, in tents. Will families be preserved? Or will men and women be separated, as we clearly see with the Jewish house in Zechariah chapter 12? That has been a repeated historical pattern in prison camps but not so much internment camps. Misbehavior may be expected to be severe in the sifting. Nevertheless, the Holy Scriptures affirm that for the woman of Revelation 12 in some sort of confinement out there in a wilderness place, there will be a nurturing. God's covenant people. This is cross-referenced by John the Beloved as he describes the flight and exile of the woman of Revelation 12 during the last 3.5 years of this age.

This cloaking of the End-Time mystery Bozrah story by the religious powers is probably something we should expect. Perhaps we should not be too concerned when middle of the road Christians do not receive Biblical truth when it is presented to them. It is said that people get the level of truth they deserve. But the real story does indeed emerge. Quite clearly the Flight to Bozrah is to a place of refuge. The Bible clearly states that this end-time gathering is "away from the face of the dragon". So, dare we entertain the thought that God is presenting us with some good news here, to counteract the news that is difficult for us to face?

So is the exile of God's covenant people "as the sheep of Bozrah" will probably turn out to be a much bigger story than we have been told. And the exile to a place of safety may be out at the ends of the earth. Here are some scripture references specifically mentioning "the ends of the earth".

Why is this story kept so hidden? The rulers, both political and religious, are well aware of past Church history. They probably cloaked the "sheepfold of Bozrah" story because they fear that this sensitive information concerning mystery Bozrah, (should it get out), may trigger some major societal disruptions.

And they are right. Carnal Christians have a very sad track record. Then too, past Church history in times of Biblical rediscovery and reform has been very bloody. When unconsecrated uncommitted Christians are frightened and angry they are inclined to become loose cannons, acting out in inappropriate and violent ways.

And so for the present time the entire Bozrah drama of the latter days may have to remain hidden under the religious wraps. The cover story involving latter day Judah in Israel escaping to a supposed place of refuge in nearby Petra down by the Dead Sea may stay for a while as the cover story. It may be a case of "for your eyes only". But the real story, the beginning of a massive epic Second Exodus involving Mystery Bozrah will be a blockbuster. This whole unfolding end-time drama will far greater than the former exodus out of Egypt.

Micah 2
Hebrew Names Version of World English Bible

12.  I will surely assemble, Ya`akov, all of you;
I will surely gather the remnant of Yisra'el;
I will put them together as the sheep of Botzrah,
As a flock in the midst of their pasture;
They will throng with people.

13.  He who breaks open the way goes up before them.
They break through the gate, and go out.
And their king passes on before them,
With the LORD at their head."

Micah 2
King James Version

12. I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee;
I will surely gather the remnant of Israel;
I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah,
As the flock in the midst of their fold:
they shall make great noise
by reason of the multitude of men.

13. The breaker is come up before them:
they have broken up,
and have passed through the gate,
and are gone out by it:
and their king shall pass before them,
and the LORD on the head of them.- Micah 2:12-13 KJV

Many are asking the question, "What should be the Christian response to the New World Order?" Should Christians take up arms and seek out a place of refuge in the wilderness? Can Christians entertain any hope at all of avoiding all the surveillance we have around us today? What if Christian patriots gather for protection in a large armed compound? Will they be safe? Remember Waco? How easy is it for a tank, perhaps a tank with a flame thrower, to deal with foot-soldiers? How easy is it for a drone high in the dark sky above to loose a small missile at 4 a.m. in the morning when everyone on the ground is asleep? What if our Christian patriots are in a cave full of food and water and arms? How do they prevent the arrival of an Apache helicopter, and an ordnance like a Hellfire Missile from being delivered by some means into the mouth of the cave, exploding, and sealing them inside? What sort of