The Genesis Apocalypse of Abraham
Abraham’s son, Isaac foreshadows Jesus. There is a clear resemblance, a typological connection between them.
As believers and followers of Jesus, our lives should increasingly resemble Jesus’ life, which in turn resembles Isaac’s life.
The resemblance is primarily spiritual in nature. The spiritual aspect is always true and has eternal importance, but at certain special times, at God’s appointed time the resemblance can also be expressed apocalyptically.
Many recent signs appear to signal an approaching moment of birth as a special end times journey due to begin.
The story of Abraham and Isaac reveals great blessings to come with end time events. But a pattern of birth pains warns that pandemic is followed by war and destruction.
If this proves to be true for our time, we are told not to worry. Lot was rescued from war and destruction two times. Similarly, God's child (Jesus) escaped the dragon in Revelation 12v5.
The two pandemics of Abraham’s time in Egypt (Gen 12) and Gerar (Gen 20) formed bookends in a series of major birth pains. Abram and his whole family escaped unharmed.
The birth of Isaac, the child of promise confirmed great blessings for God's people at the conclusion of these apocalyptic calamities.
The story of Abraham’s offspring, Ishmael and Isaac together, sits parallel to the life of Jesus, beginning at birth with an escape from the dragon, which for Jesus was the King Herod moment and the slaughter of the infants, (Rev 12v5). This is a repeating pattern of events.
“For the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy.” (Rev 19v10b)
The birth and life of the final generation will match the pattern revealed in Jesus. The pattern is foreshadowed in the types and parallels of Scripture that point to Jesus, of which the Genesis apocalypse of Abraham and Isaac is an important example.
A difficult birth
Abraham’s wife Sarai, and Zechariah’s wife Elizabeth were both childless, barren, and advanced in years when angels announced a special child would be born (Gen 15v4 & Luke 1v7-17).
Today the world is ageing. Many study the time of the end, but rarely is the birth considered.
However, prophecy and apocalypse actually begin with birth.
The church was born on Pentecost through fearful clouds of war in which the son of God was crucified, and Peter quoted Joel: “… I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke.” — Acts 2v19
Trouble is coming on the world, but a difficult moment of birth pains will be a great awakening for the church, a Pentecost moment as the ultimate ‘christ child generation' of the last days will be safely delivered.
“The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord. And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. — Acts 2v20-21
The child of promise brings great Christmas joy. Isaac means, “He Laughs”. This birth will bring hope to God's people who escape some very dark events in the last days, the ‘birth pains’ of the final generation.
Why do dreadful calamities strike at the vulnerable time of birth?
We will examine the ‘chiasm’ of birth pains leading up to the birth of Isaac in which calamities occur in mirroring formation:
A - B - C - D - C’ - B’ - A’.
This pattern is called a ‘Chiasm’.
Chiastic structure produces a mirroring effect that spans 10 chapters of Genesis, Chs 12 - 21, from the call of Abram (the ‘birth’ of his journey) to the birth of Isaac.
The sequence of mirroring events move through pandemic, war and destruction, and covenant, to the central focal point of the chiasm, the birth of Ishmael in Genesis 16.
The Isaac Ishmael struggle represents an intensified struggle between flesh and spirit for the post-apocalyptic generation.
Hagar and Ishmael represent the flesh and bondage to covenant law, while Sarah and Isaac represent the freedom and joy of the Spirit (Gal 4, Rom 8). This will be especially relevant to those born into the apocalyptic journey of the last days as we look forward to inheriting the new creation.
Several Old Testament types reveal a flood of war and destruction that come as a kind of baptism at birth. Baby Moses escaped pharaoh's slaughter in a little ark foreshadowing the King Herod moment. Noah's flood was the same, revealing the birth / baptism to be a large scale apocalyptic event. Immanuel escaped the great king of Assyria who came invading as a flood up to the neck — Isaiah 8v8.
Major war and rumours of war are expected with the birth of the final generation as described in Daniel 11v36-44, but God will bless His people, and ‘the end will be yet to come.’ (Mat 24v6-8). It’s just a moment of birth.
The Testimony
God's plan of salvation is revealed as a testimony. It begins at birth with some associated signs and warning events, and then a blessed life is lived and good work is done until the ultimate test and the victory is won — ultimately our death and resurrection.
The latter test is revealed as great sacrifice, or tribulation. Abraham was required to offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice, but this became God's greater act of salvation (Gen 22).
At the cross Jesus made the greatest possible sacrifice and rose victoriously, opening the way for all God’s people to follow him, and receive the promised inheritance, the glorious reward.
This testimony of God is lived many times in Scripture, having multiple fulfillments.
Abraham and Isaac’s testimony establishes a prophetic pattern. Israel lived out the testimony several times in various ways.
Jesus fulfilled God’s plan of salvation perfectly. Now we must follow, and God will help us, especially as we are born into the calamity of the last days.
From the call of Abram until the birth of Isaac, the dramatic series of events represent severe birth pains that come with the arrival of the anointed child of divine promise. But here a blessed life and powerful ministry begins.
However Abraham and Isaac lived as strangers in the land of Canaan — the land of the one cursed by Noah. It represents a land under a curse, like a post-apocalyptic journey.
God also revealed how His blessings would ultimately arrive:
Before Isaac was married God tested Abraham once more. It was a kind of great tribulation…
God told Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, the son he loved. They were acting in faith and when the final moment of slaughter arrived. On Mount Moriah Abraham stood over his son with knife in hand — when God intervened (Gen 22v9-18).
God stopped Abraham, and provided a ram for the sacrifice so that Isaac’s life was spared.
Then Sarah died (Gen 23) and Isaac was married (Gen 24).
This story of sacrifice is prophetic and points to both the cross of Christ Jesus, and to the final great tribulation of God’s people at the end of the age before the long awaited wedding of Christ and the church.
The exact time of Isaac's near sacrifice was not recorded in the Bible, but according to some ancient Jewish books such as Jasher chapter 22 and the Seder Olam, it occurred when Isaac was 37 years old. Sarah was overwhelmed with emotion and passed away at that same time (Jasher 23). Sarah died aged 127 years (Gen 23v1).
The book of Jubilees also offers addition information regarding the festivals. The offering of Isaac occurred at Passover. Therefore it may have been 3.5 years later, a period very significant in prophecy when during the feast of Tabernacles, at the age of 40 Isaac married Rebecca (Gen 25v20).
Isaac brought Rebecca into his mother’s tent (or Tabernacle), and was comforted after his mother’s death (Gen 24v67).
This is the 40 year journey of prophecy.
There are three parts to the testimony of Abraham and Isaac:
— the call, chiasm and birth,
— then blessings continue until…
— the sacrifice.
Isaac’s marriage completes the story.
This is the pattern of the life of Jesus, and the final generation will fulfil it too. The ultimate wedding will take place when the church meets Jesus at his second coming.
The story of a lifetime for the final generation:
First comes the call, like a birth in which the birth pains will be a kind of baptism in calamity that reveals a powerful blessing.
(World war three is expected, with great acts of divine grace and mercy promised.)Then comes a journey, a good life and ministry in obedience to God.
(Gospel work will continue during testing times to come in the last days until...)Finally a great sacrifice and wedding day. This is also a death and resurrection, or the ultimate exodus.
(The great tribulation will occur when the Antichrist rules the world immediately prior to the second coming of Jesus in full glory and power.)
Many Scriptures confirm this three stage pattern while adding further detail to form a great prophetic harmony. Biblical themes align to reveal God’s plans for the life long journey of the final generation.
In Matthew 24 Jesus gave an overview of the apocalypse in three parts:
— Beginning with the birth-pains of war and calamity, (v4-8)
— Then despite persecutions the gospel will be preached to all nations until… (v9-14)
— The abomination that causes desolation — the final cross-like crisis (v15-28) which will become our greatest victory when Jesus returns. (v29-31)
Then Jesus said,
“Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.” (Mat 24v34).
When the apocalypse begins the above verse will provide a rough timeframe — All prophecy will be fulfilled within the lifetime of the final generation.
Just as Jesus spoke to the first generation of Christians he also speaks to the last, because Jesus is the first and the last, the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end.
Prophetic Revelation is the story of Christ Jesus himself (Rev 1v1-3 and 19v10).
Abraham and Isaac established the prophetic pattern. Moses and Israel confirmed it. Jesus fulfilled all law and prophecy perfectly — without abolishing it. Therefore it remains for us to follow. As the body of Christ, we will accomplish the testimony of God in the last days. (Mat 5v17-18).
All who know Jesus and follow him understand how God's plan of salvation is ultimately accomplished.
Revelation 10v7
“But in the days when the seventh angel is about to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be accomplished, just as he announced to his servants the prophets.”
The greatest battle is fought and the most glorious victory won over sin and death at end of the story, at the cross.
Through his obedience Abraham learnt about God’s kind provision when he was instructed to sacrifice his son Isaac.
We can already rejoice that when the time comes our victory is assured through Jesus.
An Apocalyptic Mirror
The beginning of the story mirrors ending. King Herod’s attack on the infants was a warning that foreshadowed the crucifixion of Jesus, and likewise the beginning of Abraham and Isaac’s story mirrors the ending.
The Chiasm is therefore perhaps the best literary device to use because a chiasm is a structure of words or ideas that mirror.
To begin the story, the call of Abram and the birth of Isaac reflect each other across a great apocalyptic chiasm in which a dramatic sequence of events mirror. Here God reveals his divine protection and great blessings for his family during a frightening period of vulnerability and enormous calamity. So the journey begins...
The struggle of Abram and Sarai to produce offspring is the underlying theme of the apocalyptic chiasm which spans 10 chapters of Genesis: 12 – 21. The birth of Isaac, the child of promise represents both the birth of Jesus, and also the arrival of the final generation. This is how the journey of the last days will begin.
The Apocalyptic Chiasm of Abraham
Most of Abraham's story forms a large chiasm. A chiasm is a literary device in which events, ideas or phrases mirror;
A – B – C – B – A
An example of a small chiasm is Matthew 6v24:
A - No one can serve two masters.
B - Either you will hate the one
C - and love the other,
C - or you will be devoted to the one
B - and despise the other.
A - You cannot serve both God and money.
Many chiasmus are found throughout Scripture, and the chiasm in Abraham’s story is important.
The call of Abram (Gen 12) and the birth of Isaac (Gen 21) mirror each other in a chiasm spanning 10 chapters of Genesis.
The events of Genesis 12 – 15 are repeated in reverse order in Genesis 17 – 21, mirroring at the birth of Ishmael (Gen 16) which is at the centre of the chiasm.
Abram's Call – B – C – D – Ishmael born – D – C – B – Isaac born.
The beginning, centre and end this chiasm confirm the theme of God's calling, the promised birth and beginning of God's end times plan for his people.
The other events (B, C and D) create a picture of calamity through which Abram and Sarai passed unharmed, even being blessed.
A – God called Abram (Gen 12)
B – Abram in Egypt - famine, Pharaoh took Sarai - serious diseases, Abram expelled (Gen 12)
C – Quarreling, Lot in Sodom, war of 10 Kings, Lot rescued (Gen 13-14)
D – Covenant of parts (Gen 15)
E – Ishmael born (Gen 16)
D – Covenant of circumcision (Gen 17)
C – Pleading, Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed, Lot rescued (Gen 18-19)
B – Abraham in Gerar, Abimelech took Sarah - a curse, a healing and vindication (Gen 20)
A – Isaac born (Gen 21)
Despite facing great danger Abraham and Sarah received blessing after blessing through all of the events listed above until the promised child was born.
Isaac means “laughter”, and what great relief!
Isaac represents Jesus, born amidst calamity but fulfilling God's promises, revealing the way of salvation.
The testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy. We follow him.
The final generation will be born at a time of great calamity while God's family will be protected and blessed. We will fulfil God's promises to all the nations and then will face the final test.
Some time later God tested Abraham by instructing him to sacrifice Isaac (Gen 22). Abraham was prepared to obey when at the last second God interceded and provided a ram. Abraham's deep faith was proven genuine and the cross of Christ was revealed.
In following Jesus we fulfil all Scripture in the last days. From the birth to the cross, we will be sanctified and perfected, trusting like Abraham and Isaac that God raises the dead. Then we will be prepared as a beautiful bride to be glorified in Christ on the great wedding day of the Lord.
We will consider the calamity of the chiasm.
How and when does God protect his family?
How long will the subsequent journey be until the ultimate wedding day?
We will consider the chiasm, and signs in Abram’s story for 1948 and 2023 regarding Israel and the promised birth of God’s end-times child, the christ child generation of the last days.
Various Scriptures describe a subsequent journey… The 400 years of Gen 15v13 becomes 40 years until Isaac is married, or 40 years with Moses in the wilderness, or 40 days symbolically for Jesus (Mat 4v2). Elsewhere 50 and 70 year examples are also given until…
The final struggle, and great victory to be celebrated on our ultimate wedding day when the church will be united to Christ at his return.
The enemy is sin. Of course death is the major consequence of sin. We all have to face this struggle against sin and death, but we need not fear. Christ has won the battle for us at the cross. We are all called to engage in this battle and those who follow Jesus can rejoice that our victory is guaranteed.
Through Abraham, Isaac and Jesus God's ultimate plan is unveiled. Their testimonies confirm God's plan is good.
The story of Abraham reveals Blessings in the Apocalypse
Apocalypse means “revelation”, as the last book of the Bible is called. The Revelation given to John is “the testimony of Jesus” (Rev 1v2), and also “spirit of prophecy.” (Rev 19v10b).
This prophetic testimony is revealed in the story of Abraham and Isaac. It is the story of salvation and also the pattern of prophecy that we are about to fulfil in the last days.
Abraham and Isaac's lives reveal the story of both Jesus and the final generation:
- beginning with his birth and baptism,
- followed by his life and ministry journey…
- until his death and resurrection.
Abraham saw great calamities but he and Isaac were greatly blessed. We may be encouraged to know what great blessings are promised to God’s people in the last days during the calamities of the apocalypse.
A child is born — eventually…
Most of Abraham and Sarah's story is about the difficulties they faced while waiting for the offspring promised by God, (Gen 12-21).
Like birth pains they saw famine, disease, war and destruction, but God said “Do not be afraid Abram, I am your shield, your very great reward.” (Gen 15v1), and God made them a covenant. Not only did they escape each calamity, but Abraham and Sarah received blessing after blessing.
Abraham became wealthy and was promised as many offspring as there are stars in the sky or dust in the earth, (Gen 13v16, 15v5, 22v17). Covenant promises were made and signs given by God. His blessings would flow on to people from all nations, (Gen 12v3, 18v18, 22v18 26v4).
Through all the calamities that Abraham and Sarah saw, God was faithful, and eventually the promised child of laughter was born — Isaac.
BIRTH
The circumstances of the birth of God’s promised child are of great interest right now, especially in the light of the Revelation 12 sign of 23rd September 2017, (See SIGNS ). We now have significant reasons to expect the arrival of the christ child generation of the last days.
Jesus was almost killed by King Herod and many innocent children died at that time.
Isaac it seemed might never be born… When finally the child’s imminent birth was announced Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed.
The birth of the final generation will involve war and great calamity but it will not be the end (Mat 24v6-8). We seek God’s special protection and can expect his help and guidance during the final life long journey while fulfilling the ultimate ministry — preparing the way for the second coming of Jesus (Mat 24v14).
The testimonies of Jesus, Abraham and Isaac reveal great calamity to come at the birth of the final generation which will foreshadow the ultimate end of all things. With calamity God will act, revealing great blessings for his people, and prophetic fulfillments will begin the ultimate journey of the end times.
There are strong reasons to believe that in the next few years we will see the kind of calamity that Abraham saw — disease, war, destruction and famine, but this time on a truly global scale. However God’s ‘called out’ people will enjoy his promised protection during the disaster of the apocalypse just as Abraham and Sarah experienced.
Despite great difficulties and enormous calamity spread out across ten chapters of Genesis (12 - 21), Isaac was born as promised.
Today we can anticipate the war and calamity described in Daniel 11v36-45. The birth pains are described in the seals and trumpets of Revelation 6, 8 & 9. This is discussed on the page called, God’s Plan.
A BLESSED LIFE
As God began fulfilling his promises to Abraham, likewise he will pour out his Spirit on us. It will be a baptism and great awakening during days of difficulty while God’s people come to appreciate his merciful blessings, divine acts of kindness and protection.
God makes his people fruitful and promises eternal blessings extending to peoples from all nations. During the journey he will guide his ‘called out’ people in sanctification, toward glory as we sojourn in the wilderness of this world.
The gospel will go out to all the nations and we will complete the work of the great commission bringing many children into the faith of our father Abraham.
THE FINAL HOUR
The final events of the ultimate journey are also revealed in Abraham and Isaac’s story.
Genesis 22v1a
“Some time later God tested Abraham.“
God taught Abraham and Isaac the great cost of salvation on Mount Moriah. There God graciously provided what they needed - a substitutionary sacrifice.
The offering of Isaac as a sacrifice relates to the cross of Christ at the end of the prophetic journey, God’s temple destroyed and raised again.
Our heavenly father guarantees us victory over sin and death as foreshadowed in the offering of Isaac and fulfiled perfectly in Jesus, God’s own son offered for us who believe, and who follow him. Jesus is God’s provision to us — the righteousness of God that covers over our sin.
So now we follow Jesus in the way of the cross day by day while righteousness is still being formed in us.
We struggle for perfection and sometimes great sacrifice is called for as we are being transformed into the likeness of Christ. In this world temples are destroyed, and death involves sorrow, but God raises the dead and makes us whole again. He is bringing a new and perfect creation.
Isaac represents Christ. He married Rebecca, and he was comforted after the death of his mother, (Gen 24v67).
We will serve God until after the final test is accomplished, and then our wedding day will arrive — we will meet Jesus.
We will Cross 2 Victory
Jesus himself was the temple, destroyed for us and raised again. Now we, the church are his temple. The abomination that causes desolation of Mat 24, and the persecutions that Daniel foretold will be that ultimate test when the time comes for us to be glorified in Christ.
In the end everything will once more be fulfilled in the final generation according to the testimonies of Abraham, Isaac and Jesus. We are Abraham’s children — the nation, the temple and the body of Christ. We are being made one in Christ.
The wedding supper of the lamb is the ultimate celebration that we look foward to when Jesus returns to rescue us, and to bring us into his father’s house in the new creation.
Abraham and Isaac lived the prophetic story and revealed the ultimate journey that we are now about to begin.
Watch for the birth of the final generation
The birth comes with pain and calamity, but also with divine protection. Jesus was born while on a journey – homeless at first, then almost killed by King Herod, having to escape to a foreign land.
When Abram and Sarai responded to God's call they escaped similar difficulties until Isaac was born, the type of christ child.
The call of Abram mirrors the birth of Isaac, as to be demonstrated in the prophetic chiasm of Gen 22 - 21. It’s not the end but the beginning of the prophetic journey.
In the last days the final christ child generation will fulfil the same pattern. The beginning of birth pains will command our full attention.
Signs in the Biblical chronology for 1948 and 2023
Prophetic signs are found in the story of Abraham when the AM years of Biblical chronology are placed in parallel with the equivalent AD years.
AM is Anno Mundi - “Year of the world”. (Year 1 AM = creation date).
AD is Anno Domini - “Year of the Lord”. (Year 1 AD = when Jesus lived).
Abraham was born in 1948 AM
In 2023 AM aged 75 the prophetic journey began
The Biblical chronology up to Abraham's birth is recorded in Genesis 5, 7 and 11.
This chronology is laid out on the web page called, 6000 years.
Here is the modern parallel to watch:Modern Israel was born in 1948 AD as a sign
In about 2023 AD the prophetic journey of the final generation is expected to begin
Note there are significant other reasons for making this statement. Abraham’s chronology is a merely an additional sign that confirms...
The journey of Abraham began in 2023 AM when at the age of 75 God called him to the land of Canaan to become the father of Isaac, Israel, and many nations.
There are reasons to consider a very major calamity, a world wide conflict, but God is with us and we will be ok.
The calamity at the birth and baptism of Jesus was not the end but the beginning of his life and ministry. The cross comes later, at the end of the journey as the greatest battle, where the greatest victory is won.
Consider the testimony of Jesus — it is the Spirit of prophecy.
God promised to reveal the future to his people so that we may be prepared to take good care of each other when calamity comes. We will look after each other with blessings that overflow to many peoples. We will bring the word of truth to all the world in the last days, and complete the great commission before Jesus returns. The time will also come to share in his sacrificial suffering, and then we will also share in his glory.
Called Out
A Journey for the Final Generation
The apocalypse of Abraham and Isaac is in harmony with the testimony of Jesus, so can be called “the Spirit of prophecy”, (Rev 19v10b).
Abram's story began as he set out on a journey without knowing where he was going (Heb 11v8). While sojourning as a foreigner in the land of Canaan Abram was called a “Hebrew” (Gen 14v13), which means ‘alien’, or ‘one who has crossed over’ (from beyond the Euphrates River).
Abram lived by faith as an alien and a stranger in a foreign land while trusting God's promises for great blessings and many descendants, but in Abram the birth of this hope of salvation came with calamity.
Soon after Abram and Sarai set out from Haran a severe famine took them to Egypt. Sarai was very beautiful and Pharaoh took her for himself just as Abram feared. God sent serious diseases so that Pharaoh had them sent away, expelled from Egypt and by God's grace even with all their wealth.
Later Moses lead Israel out of Egypt during the Exodus in very similar circumstances. Through famine they went in and by disease they came out. The exodus represents the birth of the nation of Israel, and it began their 40 year journey to the promised land:
Exodus 4v22-23
Then say to Pharaoh, ‘This is what the Lord says: Israel is my firstborn son, and I told you, “Let my son go, so he may worship me.” But you refused to let him go; so I will kill your firstborn son.’”
Jesus also escaped a calamity with a trip to and from Egypt. As God said, “Out of Egypt I called my Son” (Mat 2v15).
Today the Christian Church is named after this calling. The Greek word for Church is ‘ecclesia’ which literally means, “called out ones”. In the spiritual sense we come out from the world to live holy and pure lives.
Like Abraham, we are called to live by faith as strangers and aliens in the world that is under a curse, a world that is growing old and will pass away. When it is time for the great city of this world to arrive at the final judgement God will call us out of harms way:
Rev 18v4-5a
“Come out of her, my people so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues; for her sins are piled up to heaven…”
Abram coming out of Haran mirrors the birth of Isaac within the apocalyptic chiasm of Genesis 12-21. The chiasm is a birth, a baptism and a new beginning that foreshadows the end of the world in which lot is rescued and escapes great destruction unharmed twice: (Gen 14 mirrors Gen 19).
Genesis 14 – The war of 10 kings in which Abram rescued Lot and was blessed by Melchizedek.
Genesis 19 – The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in which two angles rescued Lot and his two daughters.
At the heart of the chiasm God's covenant's mirror each other either side of the journey from calamity to the birth of perfection, Genesis 15-17. These covenants mark the beginning and the end of the great journey of all God's people.
In a thick and dreadful darkness Abram saw the wrath of God pass between the pieces of the sacrifice as he made the covenant promise that in 400 years Abram's offspring would “come out” of slavery with great possessions (Gen 15v7-14).
That covenant is mirrored in Genesis 17 by God's call to perfection and the covenant of circumcision in Genesis 17. Circumcision represents cutting off the sinful nature as true perfection is attained. There will be no sin in the promised land of heaven.
The Jewish custom of circumcision is widely recognised as having been replaced in Christianity by baptism. Both circumcision and baptism represent the same change – cutting off the sinful nature at the time of new birth.
When the end comes our heavenly father will treat us as true sons and daughters. That doesn't mean we will go undisciplined. There is a baptism of fire. Being “changed” involves pain. Sacrifice and blood is involved – a circumcision at the time of birth.
It will also be like Abraham's test in Genesis 22 when he was told to sacrifice his only son Isaac, but God provides the sacrifice which means we will escape the greater calamity, but the world will be destroyed.
Circumcision takes place at the Exodus:
Exodus 4v21-23
The Lord said to Moses, “When you return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders I have given you the power to do. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go. 22 Then say to Pharaoh, ‘This is what the Lord says: Israel is my firstborn son, 23 and I told you, “Let my son go, so he may worship me.” But you refused to let him go; so I will kill your firstborn son.’”
The world faces complete destruction, but judgement begins with the household of God (1 Peter 4v17). As Moses was returning to Egypt in prepared to lead Israel out the Lord met him and was about to kill him, but for circumcision.
Exodus 4v24-26
24 At a lodging place on the way, the Lord met Moses and was about to kill him. 25 But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said. 26 So the Lord let him alone. (At that time she said “bridegroom of blood,” referring to circumcision.)
Circumcision also takes place at the second Exodus in Joshua 3
Abram's subsequent trip to Egypt and expulsion amidst plague confirms the typology. It is also like Israel's coming out of Egypt in the midst of plagues. The Exodus of Israel from Egypt is a picture of both the end of the world, and the death and resurrection of God's son.
Consider Exodus 4v21-23, “ I will harden his heart..... Israel is my first born son.....I will kill your first born son”
In the end both father Abraham and our father God offered their only sons as a sacrifice. Abraham was stopped before Isaac was killed, but God went the whole way for us in sacrificing his only perfect son, and in so doing he opened the way of salvation to his people of faith (Gen 22).
In the end it is through judgement that we will be separated from the world. Judgement begins with God’s own son, and with the family of God (1 Peter 4v17). God’s judgement takes place at the cross. It is also called the abomination that causes desolation by Jesus in Matthew 24, and by the prophet Daniel.
The end is coming, but first God sends forewarning which comes at the time of the birth of the final generation…
The journey of the final generation begins when God snatches his new born child out of harms way as the apocalypse begins. Jesus’ story like Abraham and Isaac’s story reveals what is to come. It will be an act of grace and for a sign when he sends the penultimate calamity, and God willing we will be able to escape in the ark of God’s protection.
We have great prophetic hope for the future as revealed in Christ, but as the story goes, there will be great drama and testing times on the journey of the last days until we eventually inherit the promised land when salvation is revealed from heaven.
The final generation will be born into the time of calamity but snatched out of harms way. We will be called out prior to the apocalypse, and prepared for the great journey of the last days in obedience to God’s will, and as guided by his Spirit.
The Expectation of Birth
Abraham was waiting for the ones promised to be born; Isaac, Israel, and ultimately the Messiah. Now all who are ‘born again’ into the faith of our father Abraham are children of Abraham who shine with faith, hope and love like the stars of heaven in a dark and broken world. But there is still the expectation of a birth to come.
Like Abraham we are waiting for the promised greater birth into a new and glorious creation yet to be revealed, to receive the heavenly city, the kingdom of God. Like Abraham we live by faith while waiting for this promised birth.
Romans 8v22-25
“We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
… we wait eagerly for the redemption of our bodies.
For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.”
Hebrews 11v1 & 10
“Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see…
For he (Abraham) was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.”
Hebrews 11v13-16
“All these people (Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Jacob) were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth.
People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.”
Falling Stars and Birth Pains of Nations
Abraham’s life is his prophecy to the final generation. The apocalypse of Abraham begins with the great struggle to give birth to the Kingdom of God. Abraham came through famines, plagues, war and childlessness while living as a stranger in foreign lands, but God blessed him and fulfilled great promises.
Jesus lived the same prophetic story and fulfilled all prophecy perfectly, but not finally. Now we must follow in the journey of salvation.
The testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy and as Revelation 12 reveals, his first confrontation with the dragon occurred at birth.
Revelation 12v4-5
“Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born.”
“She gave birth to a son, a male child, who “will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.” And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne.”
God is with his children. He snatches us up out of harms way and from his throne he guards us, by his law we even rule. On eagles wings he takes us to a place prepared in the wilderness to be cared for during the times of prophetic fulfilment (Rev 12v14). He is our shield and very great reward.
The testimony of Jesus began with a warning calamity that took him down to Egypt. Then ‘Out of Egypt God called his son,’ (Mat 2v15).
Abram’s calling out from Ur of the Chaldeans (Ancient Babylon) began God’s plan, and the famine and trip to Egypt was that prophetic warning (Gen 12v10-20). The ultimate exodus is yet come.
Joseph lived the story when he was sold into Egypt and subsequently saved his whole family from the famine along with many Egyptians.
Abram got separated from his family as Lot went to Sodom, and they were all caught up in a major war involving 10 kings including Abram and his 318 men (Gen 13-14). On the other side of the chiasm we see the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, but in both cases Lot was rescued, or called out, and Abram and Sarai were blessed. In both cases a child was born.
Today we find ourselves living in Babylon the Great, a modern land of idolatry. Signs warn that a time of initial calamity is drawing very near.
Very soon it is believed that God’s people will again hear his call to ‘come out’ before a major calamity. The birth pains will become very real and intense, and there will be a great fall as stars of military wrath war down on earth - nuclear war.
Birth, Baptism, Trumpets and Wrath — a Covenant for the Last Days
Near the centre of the chiasm the apocalypse of Abraham reveals God’s covenant. There are two covenants mirroring each other either side of the birth of his first born child.
Covenant (Gen 15) — Birth (Gen 16) — Covenant (Gen 17).
The first covenant foreshadows the second. The covenant of Parts in Genesis 15 establishes the pattern, and the covenant of Circumcision in Genesis 17 amplifies and completes God’s purposes.
The covenant of Parts was made during a time of great uncertainty following the war of 10 kings when Abram feared that he would remain childless. For the final generation world war three with the terrible effects of nuclear radiation will make child bearing extremely difficult, but not impossible.
Not only did God guarantee Abram offspring but he also promised the land to Abraham’s descendants… after a great journey of slavery in the world government of Egypt… until the return.
At the at centre of the chiasm Ishmael was born of Hagar, Abram’s Egyptian slave woman, (Genesis 16). Abraham loved Ishmael, but this is not God’s ultimate plan. A better more perfect birth will yet come.
The covenant of Circumcision was God’s confirmation in Genesis 17 that his ultimate plan will to be put into effect at the end of the journey.
He said to Abraham, “walk before me and be perfect.” (Gen 17v1 - KJV).
Circumcision, the cutting off of the foreskin represents cutting off the sinful nature with our ultimate birth on the eighth day. There will be no sin in the new creation. We will be new people with new and perfect hearts and also with new names.
Abram became Abraham, and Sarai became Sarah. We will be changed on the great and glorious day of the Lord, and we will attain the glorious perfection of Christ Jesus.
The terrible wrath of God is coming on the world to judge all who remain in their sins. There is no excuse for those who remain in their sin because God has given us his Son. Jesus is the way of salvation, and the grace of God is available to all.
He prepares us for the journey ahead. There will be a lifetime of preparation. The earlier birth foreshadows the ultimate birth on the day of the Lord.
God’s purpose is that we may overcome the trials and birthpains of calamity that are soon to be revealed,
to excell at the ministry to which he has called us in proclaiming the gospel to all nations, working by acts of love and self sacrifice to present eachother spotless and pure to our father in heaven on the day of the Lord.
Today the more literal calling out is expected as Abraham’s prophecy reaches fulfilment with the birth of the final generation of God’s people through great calamity.
We already see the plagues of Egypt with the current Carona virus pandemic where Sarai was taken by Pharaoh (Gen 12). Sarai being taken is currently represented by church worship being closed down. Abram and Sarai come out of Egypt prior to a major war, and Lot was rescued.
World war three is expected according to Daniel 11v36-44. This is also discussed on the page called, God’s Plan.
God’s judgement begins with those he loves, those closest to him, his own son and family (1 Peter 4v17). But because of his great love and mercy, God calls us out before his greater wrath is revealed.
Revelation 18v4,
“Come out of her my people so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues.”
Almost everyone understands that the apocalypse brings war and calamity. It is true, but the real enemy is sin and above all we need to know God’s righteousness and his forgiveness of sin. Either way, yes, in both cases — calamity and sin — God makes his salvation known to those he loves, and who act in faith.
We are called to be holy.
As the Father of signs, Abram’s life now confirms to us that times of prophetic fulfilment are almost apon us — but not the end yet. Some hope for the “rapture” of the church, and yes… but probably not the rapture they expect. As great calamity draws near, even world war three, the beginning or birth of the final generation of God’s people will involve a great calling out.
A Warning — Not the end yet
HEAR THE CALL! MAKE THE ESCAPE
The prophetic expectation is that in about 2023 AD God will call his people out of the cities to escape the calamity before the apocalypse begins. Full scale nuclear war is expected between the world’s super powers according to Daniel 11v36-44 and Revelation 6, 8 and 9. But it is not the end yet.
We are considering a birth and a baptism. God’s children will be snatched out of harms way and greatly empowered, (Rev 12v1-5). The woman in the wilderness (Rev 12v13-17) is like Abram‘s family living in Canaan.
Abram obeyed God’s call to leave his home land, and he went the whole way to Canaan (the land of the one cursed by Noah) while trusting in God’s promises.
Abram’s first 10 years in the land of Canaan was filled with great drama revealing aspects of the calamity to come — world war three.
Again, at the birth of Isaac coinciding with the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah reveals the prophetic birth, and the beginning of the journey of the final generation who will live the last days as strangers and aliens in a land that is under a nuclear curse. But God’s people of faith who know his covenant law will be greatly blessed.
During the lifetime of that final generation God will prepare his people for the great Isaac moment of Gen 22. The first things foreshadow the last things. It is all in harmony with the testimony of Jesus. The final judgement and greater exodus to come will be fulfilled when Jesus returns.
The Prophetic Testimony of God
The Pattern of Prophecy is revealed in Scripture as seen in Abraham, Israel and Jesus.
The gospel message revealed in Abraham, Israel and Jesus forms a divine harmony of prophetic testimonies. “The testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy” (Rev 19v10b). The testimony of Jesus has been lived out many times in the past, and we live his way today - in the Spirit. Now his testimony is about to be fulfilled one last time very dramatically, by the final generation of God’s people.
Abraham’s testimony foreshadowed Jesus’ testimony, and now we are about to follow.
This is the pattern:
The testimony of God has three parts:
a time, times and half a time;
1 - a calamity, 2 - prophetic times, 3 - the climax.
The lifetime of Jesus ==>> the lifetime of the final generation according to these three stages;
A calamity at birth often involving a heavenly sign, a covenant, law, or baptism, with divine acts of salvation and a promise;
Jesus escaped King Herod / Baptism ==>> World War Three in about 2023.A longer period of servitude, enduring adversity while continuing to serve God and enjoying God’s special protection;
Jesus served God and ministered to Israel while under Roman rule ==>> Gospel will go out to all the nations while we live under World GovernmentThe climax, a great sacrifice, a serious crisis or apparent defeat. Even potential extermination — followed by God’s greater act of salvation;
Jesus gave his life for us on the cross, dying and rising victorious over sin and death ==>> we also will Cross 2 Victory.God will accomplish his plan for our ultimate salvation which will be revealed from heaven when Jesus returns. His salvation was revealed at the cross in his death and resurrection which has already brought us into a much deeper relationship with God. But his plans are not yet complete.
Our own testimony will be in harmony with Jesus, Israel and Abraham, to be completed on the day Christ returns. Then we will be both justified and sanctified. We shall know cost of giving our lives in obedience to him, and we shall cross from suffering to glory to receive the eternal kingdom. But God’s judgement will fall on the nations, and all who do not trust in Jesus or share in his testimony will be destroyed.
Important examples of what God’s testimony means for the final generation are presented on the page called, God’s Plan.
The Prophetic Testimony of Abraham
Abraham, the father of Israel is also a father of signs. He was a prophet and his life was his testimony. While the story of Abraham points to Christ’s first coming, a message is also revealed to the final generation concerning the events that will precede Jesus’ second coming. The testimony of Abraham and Isaac alligns with the testimony of Jesus and is a prophetic sign to us.
God’s call to Abram in 2023 AM to come out from his father’s house go to the land of Canaan was like a birth and a new beginning, but it involved great calamity until Isaac was born. It began a prophetic story that points both to the birth of Christ and also to the birth of the final generation.
The year 2023 AM, when Abram was called out from Haran is believed to correspond to about 2023 AD. We are to be “called out” of the cities in which we currently live ahead of an enormous calamity - World War Three. God does not want his children to suffer wrath.
Jesus lived the story when he escaped from King Herod being taken to Egypt as a small child. “Out of Egypt I called my son.” Mat 2v15. Revelation 12v1-5 also depicts the snatching away of God’s child before a calamity strikes.
Blessings in the midst of judgement continues to be evident in the events that follow in Genesis 12-21. God promised to bless Abraham, and the children of Abraham, but for the next 10 years God’s blessings came in the midst of crisis and calamity.
God protects his children, his people of faith, and now calls us to be holy and separate from this sinful fallen world. He will call us out of Babylon the great before the final judgement, and to foreshadow this truth he will also call us out of harms way today, before his warning judgement occurs in about 2023.
The first calamity foreshadows the last.
Abraham is called a prophet by Abimelech (Genesis 20v7).
Abraham is the father of all who put their faith in God, by trusting in God’s promises, believing Jesus, and in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. This central Gospel truth is revealed in Genesis 22 when Abraham was tested by being asked to offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice.
Abraham’s son Isaac was born in fulfilment of the promise, and Isaac’s son Jacob became “Israel”. According to Isaiah the children are for “signs and symbols,” (Isa 8v18). The signs come before prophecy is fulfilled.
Jesus came in fulfilment of the promises to Abraham, and by his own blood Jesus purchased righteousness for all who’s eyes are opened to see our own sin and recognise our great need. Where Abraham trusted God’s promises, we now trust in Jesus in whom God’s righteousess has been revealed.
While Jesus has come once and revealed God’s salvation to all the children of Abraham, we are still like Abraham, living by faith and not by sight. However Jesus has promised to come again in power and glory, with great wrath toward his enemies and to reward all who are longing for his appearing.
We don’t know when Jesus will return, except that it will be within the lifetime of the final generation according to Jesus’ teaching in the Olivet discourse of Mat 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21.
In the end we will certainly be tested, and called out of Babylon the Great: “Come out of her, my people, so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues,” (Rev 18v4). I expect Babylon will have peace and safety during those latter times, and that final event will be a test on par with God's call to Abraham to sacrifice his son.
We who are faithful will be obedient to God's call. We will cross2victory.
The story of Abram is prophetic.
Revelation 12 speaks of God's family being called out like Abram, “snatched up” to God and fleeing to the wilderness while war rages and the stars fall from the sky to the earth. 'Come out of her my people”.
Jesus lived out the prophecy himself, making an escape at a very young age. An exodus is coming early in the lives of the final generation. Jesus is the first and the last, the Alpha and the Omega.
In 2023 AM Abram was called out from a land of idolatry to the land of Canaan. Famine promptly sent him down to Egypt. Then plagues had him expelled again, into the wilderness of the Negev. He wondered from place to place, but Abram saw God (as did Moses on Mount Sinai) and called on his name. (Gen 12)
There was quarrelling among the herdsmen of flocks which caused the family to split up, and so Abram and Lot went their separate ways. The great war involving 10 kings gave Abram the opportunity to rescue Lot, (Gen 13-14), and then the Covenant followed (Gen 15).
The Covenant came with a thick and dreadful darkness (Gen 15v12). World war three will be like that, and due to the crisis and the age of this world we might then ask, will the survivors of nuclear war ever have children again? It was difficult for the Patriarchs, but they did. Despite their great age Abram and Sarai were promised many children!
“In the fourth generation your descendants will come back” to receive what is promised (Gen 15v16). In Abram's time that was more than 400 years later. For Moses it was 40 years from the exodus and the wrath of Mount Sinai, 40 years wondering in the wilderness until they reached the promised land. For Jesus it was 40 days in the wilderness after his baptism.
After a nuclear world war it could be a 40 year story for the final generation until we reach the promised land, or it could be 50 years until the jubilee, or 70 years in world government while Babylon rules - the exile period until we are sent home.
Many will be the children of Abraham. We may suffer tribulations and homelessness, camping like Abram in various places. But we trust God knowing that he cares for his people, and we have great blessings in Christ that are being stored up in heaven — waiting to be revealed at the appointed time.
A people like Abram who walk blamelessly, and believe in God's promises are accredited with righteousness, Gen 15v6.
While much is already accomplished through Christ’s life and work, especially his death and resurrection, God’s final purposes are yet to be revealed in full glory. That revelation will involve not a single event but a process, and with great drama. It will be an apocalypse of several big events. However the final generation “will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened”, (Mat 24v34), and only then will God’s judgement and ultimate salvation finally be put on full display.
“The testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy” Rev 19v10.
Please watch for the fulfilment of Daniel 11v36-44:
Here is a firm prediction... To understand how it is attained please see God's Plan.
Prediction: The US will engage in war in the Middle East according to the prophecy of the king of the North in Daniel 11v36-44. After invading the countries listed in v40-43 China and Russia will become involved, (v44). World war three is expected in about 2023 AD. Stars will fall and the sun will be darkened, but this will not be the end. War will mark the beginning of the journey for the final generation as detailed in the Apocalypse of Abraham.
If this interpretation proves true you will know it comes by God's Spirit. If it is false you will know it was only of my own imagination. However I don't doubt the truth of this message. I fully believe it will prove true by 2024 at the latest.
A more thorough theological explanation is here:
To consider the chronological parallel between the AM and AD years in story of Abraham, and also an approximate 70 year window for the final generation before 6000 years of Biblical history are completed, consider the chronology of the Bible in detail:
