mcElmurry ~ BIRTH PANG NUMBER 25

BIRTH PANG NUMBER 25

May 28, 2010

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The great earthquake of Revelation 16 is the great shaking of Joel 3 at the final battle of Armageddon. The earthquake creates the spring flowing east from where the Temple once stood. It is the spring of Joel 3:18, Ezekiel 47, and Zechariah 14.

Revelation 16:15-19 – Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. [16] And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. [17] And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. [18] And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. [19] And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

Joel 3:14-18 – Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. [15] The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. [16] The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. [17] So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more. [18] And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, AND A FOUNTAIN SHALL COME FORTH OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD AND SHALL WATER THE VALLEY OF SHITTIM.

Ezekiel 47:1 – Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, WATERS ISSUED OUT FROM UNDER THE THRESHOLD OF THE HOUSE EASTWARD: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar.

Zechariah 14:8,9 – 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.

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Chapter 27 – God Forms a Spring on a Temple Mount

November 30, 2001

Ezekiel 47:1 – Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar.

Birth Pang Number 24 ended with the creation of the fault scarp shown in Figure 42 (click on Figures above). God has been creating thousands of fault scarps, just like this one, all across the earth since the dawn of creation. Figure 42, in the lower right hand corner, pictures an extract, from a standard geological text, that shows a normal fault scarp. Please note that God has been using fault scarps for countless centuries to produce springs of water. The text states: "A fault line is sometimes indicated on the surface by a succession of springs which emerge along the line of displacement." It was not by accident God made a basic limestone formation as the first one thousand feet of rock strata under Jerusalem. Limestone is the perfect rock for the generation of beautiful, clear springs, when uplifting of limestone layers occurs.

When rain falls upon limestone it forms a weak, carbonic acid, which slowly eats away at the basic composition of limestone, so that the water permeates downward through the limestone. It is this process which eventually forms vast underground water reserves and streams on top of impermeable rock layers below the limestone. The topography of Jerusalem and its environs is one of permeable limestone over impermeable rock layers. This karst type of landscape has produced a system of underground water reserves and streams. This system slopes downward from the middle ridge of the Judean Mountains eastward under the city of Jerusalem. It is the watershed zone for the springs in and around Jerusalem. The royal cistern of Solomon's Temple, which now underlies the courtyard immediately to the north of the Dome of the Rock, is supplied by permeation and limestone springs. This system is only a part of a vast underground water supply stretching north, west, and south of Jerusalem. Sorek Cave is located just fifteen miles west of Jerusalem within the Avshalom Reserve. Permeation of water downward has created this great limestone cave, and upon the floor of this great cavern are pools of clear water. These types of underground water reservoirs exist all across the earth's surface. Figure 43, from a geological text by Tarr shows the immergence of springs at the surface from underground reservoirs. In his text, New Physical Geology, Tarr states: "Water percolating through soluble rock, like limestone, dissolves the rock along joint planes and bedding planes. This often results in the formation of long, irregular, underground valleys, or caverns, such as the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. In such places much of the drainage is underground. There are large surface streams and few tributaries, the chief water supply coming from the springs that bring the cavern water to the surface." There are numerous springs to the immediate south, west, and north of Jerusalem, as well as one under it, and another under the old city of David.

Figure 42 shows the exposed scarp (or bluff) generated by the lifting along the line through the Tyropoeon Valley. This lifted zone consists of layer after layer of permeable limestone, and at its base is a thick layer of impermeable flint and hard dolomite. When this layer of permeable limestone is lifted, its water zone, flowing above the flint and dolomite, will suddenly burst forward as a limestone spring just to the north of the Dome of the Rock. This is the spring of Ezekiel 47:1. Figure 44 shows the geological formation that will exist after the lifting. There will be a continuous feeding of meteorologically stored water into the system throughout the millennial reign of Christ. As rain falls upon uplifted western Jerusalem, and its Judean watershed, it will seep slowly downward through the limestone to constantly re-supply a great invisible reservoir perched above an impermeable layer of rock. This is quoted from a standard earth science text, concerning this type of spring: "However, one type of hillside spring is likely to flow continuously. This is a spring formed at the zone of contact between permeable and impermeable rocks. Water filters down through the permeable rock and comes to the surface on a hill side when it meets the impermeable rock layer." The Bible indicates Ezekiel's spring will flow continuously throughout the millennial reign of Christ, and this is exactly what happens when strata, like that under Jerusalem, is lifted.

There are some commentaries that identify the waters found in Ezekiel 47 as "spiritual" waters, not literal waters. But this is not the case, for we are told in this chapter that: (1) the waters empty into a river, (2) the river empties into a salty sea, (3) the fresh water eventually removes most of the salt, and (4) fish will live in the freshened water. I have great difficulty in accepting "spiritual" water that has "physical" fish living in it.

Once the spring has been formed, the remnant of Israelites, which God brought through the Tribulation Period, will see the spring where Solomon's Temple once stood. They will take the blueprint narrative instructions, contained after chapter 39 in Ezekiel, and will build the Millennial Temple such that the waters will issue out "from under the threshold of the house eastward," and such that they come "down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar."