Side Bar: Endtimes and the Polarization of America
If you haven’t noticed, we are seeing a more obvious polarization of America. Some are so upset about what is happening in America that they are actually moving to other countries.
I am also seeing this happening in families as family members distance themselves from other family members. We might also see this same kind of distancing in the workplace.
The Endtime Anti-Messiah/Christ
Yet to appear on the world stage is the prophesied Anti-Messiah - a worldwide dictator, who will also have a polarizing effect on the world.
God's Endtime Servant
Another polarizing Endtime event is the arrival of God's Endtime Servant whose mission is to prepare the righteous for the return of the Messiah/Christ.
Five Cities in America worship Jehovah
Isaiah predicts that this polarization in America will come to an apex as the righteous gather to five cities.
"In that day five Hebrew-speaking cities in the land of Egypt [America as Isaiah's Endtime Egypt] will swear loyalty to Jehovah of Hosts. One shall be known as the City of Righteousness." Isaiah 19:18
The Endtime Separation of the World
Isaiah predicts that there will be an entire worldwide separation of the wicked and the righteous.
Separation of the Righteous and the Wicked
Avraham Gileadi, PhD
An entire separation of the righteous and the wicked occurs at the end of the world. While a glorious new age dawns for those of God’s people who repent, doomsday in all its horrors overtakes those who don’t. After sending prophets to warn humanity one last time, God brings on his judgment: “Come near, you nations, and hear! Pay attention, you peoples! Let the earth give heed, and all who are upon it, the world, and all who spring from it. Jehovah’s rage is upon all nations, his fury upon all their hosts; he has doomed them, consigned them to the slaughter. . . . For it is Jehovah’s day of vengeance, the year of retribution on behalf of Zion” (Isaiah 34:1–2, 8).
The “year of retribution on behalf of Zion” entails Jehovah’s delivering his people from the power of their enemies at his coming to Zion: “I had resolved on a day of vengeance, and the year of my redeemed had come” (Isaiah 63:4); “According to what they deserve, he will repay them: wrathupon his adversaries, reprisals upon his enemies; to the isles he will render retribution. From the west men will fear Jehovah Omnipotent, and from the rising of the sun his glory. For he will [come upon] themlike a hostile torrent impelled by the Spirit of Jehovah. But he will come as Redeemer to Zion, to those of Jacob who repent of transgression” (Isaiah 59:18–20).