The Bible’s Prophecy About the Free World

By Daniel Martinovich

There are over a hundred chapters of Bible prophecy about a growing free world before the book of Daniel ever uttered a word of end time prophecy. A world in which kings and emperors, dictators and warlords, are being brought to nothing. A world in which there is no more legal slavery and the earthly promises of God made to a hundred generations of saints, unfulfilled in their time, could finally begin to come to pass. This simply could not occur in the ancient despotic world where the poor masses had little to no control of their temporal or even their eternal destinies. The prophecies you will read about in this book promised an era of conditional freedom and prosperity for many nations. They promise God’s people who live in these nations will be free from the fear of oppression, and that they will be able to raise their children as they see fit. They promise the nations and peoples most influenced by the Bible and its principles will be the dominant nations in the world, just as they have been for the last 500 years. None of this occurred when the Messiah came, or with the end of the first covenant age and the horrible destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. In fact, it got even worse for true believers after that. It certainly did not occur when European empires and kingdoms began to claim Christianity. This all began to occur in a specific year prophesied in Daniel and Revelation, and for a specific reason. The journey you take through “The Bible’s Prophecies about the Free World” is going to change your life and rock the world around you. Nothing will ever be the same.

“No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has
imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him,”
(1 Corinthians 2:9).

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Sep 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9781664276574

Daniel Martinovich

Daniel Martinovich was ordained by Cornerstone Christian Center in Thousand Oaks, CA 35 years ago. The focus of his teaching has been on the harder to understand subjects of the Bible that people generally want to understand but the materials are just not available. His teaching website www.wordservice.org has an average of close to 30,000 hits per month with articles that have appeared on the first page, and in some cases the first article of Internet searches by subject, some of them for a decade. The book, The Bible’s Prophecies Of The Free World encapsulate much of that work in what seems to be the very thing the Christian world is craving in this day and hour, good news about the future of a growing free world.

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THE

BIBLE’S

PROPHECY

ABOUT THE

FREE

WORLD

DANIEL MARTINOVICH

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1     The Most Ignored Verses In The New Testament

Chapter 2     Isaiah 54

Chapter 3     Isaiah 60

Chapter 4     Isaiah 61

Chapter 5     Isaiah 65

Chapter 6     The Living Water

Chapter 7     Psalm 72

Chapter 8     Jesus’s Parables About This Kingdom

Chapter 9     The Israel Of Prophecy

Chapter 10   Isaiah 49

Chapter 11   For Freedom Christ Has Set Us Free—Galatians 5:1

Chapter 12   Impossible Prophecies Being Fulfilled Before Our Eyes

Chapter 13   Resistance Is Futile; You Will Be Assimilated

Chapter 14   End-Time Prophecy, The Book Of Daniel

Chapter 15   The Coming Of The Lord

Chapter 16   Resurrection

Chapter 17   The End-Time Prophecy Of The Book Of Revelation

Chapter 18   The Promised Age In Revelation 20

Chapter 19   Revelation 21–22: God’s People In The Promised Age

Chapter 20   Politics And The Pulpit

Chapter 21   The Sowers

INTRODUCTION

Sometime between the years 1452 and 1454, the first commercial European printing press printed its first book, which was the Bible. Within a few decades, the production of books and pamphlets went from tens of thousands to millions printed each year. Because of these commercial printing presses, something happened that had never before occurred in the history of the world: the Bible, in various languages, made its way into the hands of the general public. This transpired primarily in Northern Europe and at the time was highly illegal. The personal possession of a Bible or even part of one without the approval of the governing authorities could get one burned at the stake or worse. The kings and emperors of Southern Europe raised a great army to stop this cancer from spreading, but outside of ancient Israel, another first in human history followed. At the cost of tens of millions of lives, these rulers failed. They could not conquer all the geographical areas in Northern Europe where the general population now possessed and were reading Bibles. Secular historians call these the great religious wars of Europe. However, this is correct only from a secular viewpoint. From the viewpoint of those who understand and can see the influence of the invisible kingdom of God on the earth, the contest was not over differing religious viewpoints. It was about the despotic order of the ancient world trying to maintain its stranglehold on the people.

The rulers at that time had failed to ascertain the power of the new technology of the printing press in time to prevent the Bible from making its way into the hands of the general public in a very large geographical area. For fourteen hundred years, they had been very successful at keeping the scripture out of the hands of the masses, even employing genocide if necessary. There were many reformations, revivals, awakenings, and freedom fighters during the millennium and a half prior to what became known as the Protestant Reformation of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. All were eventually militarily crushed by the powers that existed for one reason: a lack of written materials—specifically, Bibles—in the hands of the public for them to read themselves. The imperial churches of the kingdoms and empires in Europe had Bibles. The elites with special political connections were allowed to have them, but the people were not. There was one reason for this, and that reason had nothing to do with differing religious opinions. It was because of the threat the Bible, in the hands and hearts of the population, posed to the rule of despotic human government. In other words, it was 100 percent political.

With this initial failure by the powers that existed to stop the people in certain nations from possessing and reading the Bible, the world became divided into two camps. In one camp, the people freely possessed and read their own Bibles—and some of those locations even required this for citizenship, as the Bible became the basis of public education. In the second camp, there were the nations, claiming Christianity or not, where the Bible was successfully kept from the people, or where they’d never had it in the first place. The thinking that developed in those nations that possessed and read the Bible was imported to North America via mass migration. What I am describing is the rise of the free world. This biblically inspired thinking empowered the people to overthrow seven millennia of despotic rule. Eventually they also did away with legal human slavery and fought to institute a rule of law based on biblical principles that allowed the poor masses to escape their degradation and poverty. This is not the only part of this story though. Since then, the nations that were most influenced by the gospel and biblical principles became, and have remained, dominant in the world. This has been true even though great wars costing millions of lives have been fought to try to conquer them. The free world has kept growing commensurate with the growth of biblical influence—or, more accurately, with the growth of the influence of the invisible kingdom of God. Here is a twenty-six-hundred-year-old prophecy from the Old Testament that said this would happen someday:

Isaiah 29:18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of the darkness. 19 The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. 20 For the terrible one is brought to nothing, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off.

The Hebrew word translated as terrible one refers to the tyrants, oppressors, and the mighty ones—in short, for this book’s purpose, the kings, emperors, dictators, and so forth. All the good things in these verses started to happen once the people got their own Bibles, which empowered them to do what no other generation before them had been able to achieve. They began to overthrow the entire order of the despotic ancient world and create a free one. The exciting journey you are about to take in this book will show you some of the dozens of chapters of Bible prophecy that precisely predicted our present free world and told us exactly, to the year, when it would begin. These prophecies showed how this would occur and why it would occur. They also predicted the great warfare, death, and destruction that would unsuccessfully try to stop the free world’s creation, maintenance, and slow but sure growth. You will see picture after picture of how all the temporal promises in the Bible made to a hundred generations of God’s saints—promises that remained unfulfilled in their generations—would come to pass in the lives of his saints in the free and prosperous nations that were to come.

Before we start that journey, for the sake of those who are fearful of the things that may be happening, how the ungodly and the wicked seem to be successfully conspiring to take control of their nations, and how they are attempting to remove the Bible’s influence from their culture to assure their dominion, take heart. I want to exhort you to be heavenly minded about this. Your eternal journey starts here on earth. It will continue in heaven, your eternal home. But the start of your journey here on earth is one of a heavenly soldier in a great earthly war where all kinds of different battles are lost and won. However, in the overall war for the influential dominion of the earth, heaven is winning. Isaiah 54 contextually speaks about believers in the free nations that were to come—nations that were founded upon and maintained by biblical principles.

Isaiah 54:14 In righteousness shall you be established: you shall be far from oppression; for you shall not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near you. 15 behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whoever shall gather together against you shall fall for your sake. 16 Behold, I have created the smith that blows the coals in the fire, and that brings forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy. 17 No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, said the LORD.

So yes, while there is conspiracy, wickedness, greed, and mass murder in war, the free world continues to grow. The despots win battles but are slowly but surely losing the war to rule the earth. Remember: we are coming out of eras where, outside of ancient Israel for a little while, oppressors ruled the whole world for seven thousand years. It is they who are losing control of what they had on earth, not those whose lives start on earth but will continue forever in heaven.

CHAPTER 1

THE MOST IGNORED VERSES

IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

Before we get to the prophecies in the Bible about the free world in the next chapter, I would like to use a few of what I call the most ignored verses in the New Testament to lay some groundwork. I do this with a full realization that most people who take the Bible to be the Word of God already have settled opinions about the meanings of these verses. If what I say in this chapter unsettles such people, they can quickly go to lots of well-established Bible commentaries and find assurance that their opinions are correct and that what they are reading in this chapter simply cannot be. My point is this: I do not want or expect people to change their minds based on these verses in this chapter. This chapter is meant to provide you with something in the New Testament to relate to once you begin to clearly see the Old Testament prophecies about the free world. Then what I am saying about these verses may make more sense to you. For now, it is perfectly fine to look at what I am saying about them with some skepticism.

Luke 17:20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God comes not with observation: [visibly] 21 Neither will they say, Look here! or, look there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

Most people believe this means Jesus is telling the religious leaders of the day that the kingdom of God is not coming visibly at that time, with Jesus as King David’s descendent leading it. Based on their reading of the New Testament, they think that the kingdom will come supernaturally and quite visibly at a later date. Yet that is not what Jesus said. He said it does not come visibly at all. That, however, is not the main point I am trying to make. My point is that the question being asked, and answered, is referring to something very specific—the Old Testament prophecies about the kingdom of God. Remember: the New Testament was not even written at this point. Jesus is revealing the Old Testament to the people. He is bringing about an understanding that those prophecies do not say what the religious leaders of that day thought they said. This is verified by verse 21. In that verse, Jesus is saying that those Old Testament prophecies will come to pass in the world because the kingdom of God is within, among, and in the hearts of individuals. In other words, God will bring those nation-transforming prophecies to pass in the world through those individuals in whose hearts that kingdom dwells.

Following are two more verses that teach the same thing. Strangely enough, one of them is the most famous verse in the New Testament (NT).

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

The Greek word for world in verse 17 is "kosmos." It refers to the world that, as the vast majority of the nation’s pulpits teach, will face divine judgment and destruction. That is why I am saying verse 17 is one of the most ignored verses in the NT. Verse 17 is directly teaching us that the physical planet and humankind’s civilizations on it will eventually be healed, preserved, or rescued out of danger and into safety. One might ask how this will come to be. Verse 16 explains how. It will be achieved by way of individuals being given eternal life because they put their trust in the Son of God. To put it another way, God will fulfill the Old Testament (OT) prophecies about a transformed world by putting a little bit of heaven, a little bit of himself, into individuals.

The next verse is John the Baptist’s father’s prophecy about the Messiah in Luke 1. It is a paragraph that condenses dozens of chapters of OT prophecy about a promised age.

Luke 1:68 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he has visited and redeemed his people, 69 And has raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; 70 As he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began: 71 That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us; 72 To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant; 73 The oath which he swore to our father Abraham, 74 That he would grant to us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear, 75 in holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.

Generally speaking, outside of a very few time periods in ancient Israel, believers in both the NT and OT were not saved from the hands of their enemies. Those who hated them had dominion over them. They were not able to serve God without fear and for millennia never had the opportunity to have the earthly promises of God in scripture come to pass in their generations. But believers in the free world generally are able to do so, and this phenomenon is growing in the world. The final verse is next.

Ephesians 2:7 That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

There are specific ages given in the Bible’s prophecy. When the apostles penned this, they were living at the end, (the end times) of the old covenant age. That is what you see Jesus and the apostles referencing in the NT—prophecy and teachings about the horrible things that would soon befall the churches and the region. The world was just starting its journey into the new covenant age, yet they were also right in the middle of a time in the Bible’s prophecy that was measured by four gentile empires. It was an age in which God’s people all over the world were ruled over and oppressed, warred against, and overcome, and this lasted until the end times of that age. Those end-time prophecies are in the books of Daniel and Revelation. Yet before any of those end-time prophecies are mentioned in the OT, there must be over a hundred chapters about an age of promise that predict the rise and nature of a free world exactly as at least a quarter of the world has been experiencing it. These references are to a promised age of freedom, during which the grace and kindness of God would begin to be experienced in all areas of this life. Obviously, though, this has occurred only in the nations on the earth that meet the conditions for it. These prophecies did not predict a supernatural utopia, as so many who don’t comprehend the times and seasons of the Bible’s prophecy imagine. They do, however, tell of a time in the Bible’s prophecy that was determined, to the year it would begin, two thousand years in advance. The nature of that age is clearly spelled out in advance in that prophecy. This is the prophecy that the reader will clearly see during the journey with me through the rest of this book.

CHAPTER 2

ISAIAH 54

Let’s see what the apostle Paul said about the first verse in Isaiah 54.

Galatians 4:22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a female slave, the other by a free woman. 23 But he who was of the female slave was born after the flesh; but he of the free woman was by promise. 24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which engenders to bondage, which is Hagar. 25 For this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to [illustrates] Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. 26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. 27 For it is written, Rejoice, you barren that bore not; break forth and cry, you that travail not: for the desolate has many more children than she which has an husband. 28 Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

Verse 27 of Galatians 4 is the first verse in Isaiah 54, which Paul is quoting.

Isaiah 54:1 Sing, O barren, you that did not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you that did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, said the LORD.

The way he is interpreting it is that the Mosaic law and the physical city of Jerusalem were the married wife that bore many children. The people of faith, though few and, for most of the history of ancient Israel, persecuted and murdered by the faithless—these are the children of the desolate woman. However, with the coming of the Messiah, the desolate woman would bear more children than the earthly city would. They are referred to as the children of the heavenly Jerusalem. The rest of the prophecy in Isaiah 54 will say more of this.

54:2 Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations: spare not, lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes; 3 For you shall break forth on the right hand and on the left; and your descendants shall inherit the Nations, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

This is truly amazing prophecy exhorting the faithful with the promise that lay ahead. It says the people of faith, soon to be of all nations, will grow and expand, eventually inheriting the nations. The fruit of this will be prosperous civilizations which is what the "the desolate cities will be inhabited" from verse 3 means.

54:4 Fear not; for you shall not be ashamed: neither be you confounded; for you shall not be put to shame: for you shall forget the shame of your youth, and shall not remember the reproach of your widowhood any more. 5 For your Maker is your husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and your Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called. 6 For the LORD has called you as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when you were refused, said your God. 7 For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you. 8 In a little wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on you, said the LORD your Redeemer. 9 For this is as the waters of Noah to me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with you, nor rebuke you. 10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, said the LORD that has mercy on you.

In these verses, believers are being depicted as the wife of God. The shame and the reproach of her youth and her being forsaken is a reference to the tribulations the believers in ancient Israel faced. It seemed as if they were forsaken by God and left to the whims of the wicked, who were often a majority of its citizens and its leaders, and then later at the hands of the Gentiles. It mattered not how they lived their lives before the Lord. They reaped whatever the despots who ran the world sowed. This certainly did not change in New Testament times and for many a century beyond that. Yet in the context of a despotic, idolatrous world—a world full of sorrows, tears, slavery, short life spans, and destitution—they were exhorted with promises in the form of prophecy about what lay ahead. Verse 5 says why this will happen—because the God of ancient Israel, who to the rest of the world was a small tribal god among thousands of other tribal gods, a god of such little note that he is not even included in the Greek or Roman pantheons, will one day be called the God of the whole earth. That means the whole world will someday call him the one real God. They will no longer remember the idols of the ancient world. Half the world calls him that already, voluntarily. No one is forcing that on them. It is not that half the world’s population is heaven-bound, saved, or even claims Christianity—not at all. It is just that they know that there is only one God, and he is the God of the Bible.

54:11 O you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay your stones with fair colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires. 12 And I will make your windows of agates, and your gates of carbuncles, and all your borders of pleasant stones.

It is important to pay special attention to verses 11-12. They are indirectly quoted in John’s revelation about the New Jerusalem in Revelation 21:18-21. You will see many more direct quotes about Revelation’s New Jerusalem as we go on in the next chapters. Let’s go back a little bit before we go on and notice some other things that tie this into Revelation’s New Jerusalem. In Galatians 4:26, Paul calls this the heavenly Jerusalem. John says the New Jerusalem comes down out of heaven from God in Revelation 21:2,10. Isaiah 54:5 calls this heavenly Jerusalem God’s wife. It is the