20th Meeting - Discussion on Millennial Temple

As Paul told us that we needed a second Adam to take sin out of the world that the first Adam introduced when he ate of the fruit. In the same way we needed a second Temple to show the world how the first Temple was to function. Jesus is the second Adam, the God-Man chosen to take sin out of the world. Ezekiel's Temple shows us how the Temple is to operate during the 1,000 year reign of Jesus Christ on earth. When Jesus reigns, he will be our King of Kings and our High Priest. Ezekiel and Hebrews are both books in our Bible. We call the Bible the Word of God; since both books are in the Bible then we need to look at both of these being true. God can not contradict Himself. Instead of choosing not to look at Ezekiel because we can not understand it. We should choose to try to find ways to make both books be true. This is what I have tried to do with this study.

In Ezekiel, the High Priest was to come from the line of Zadok. Why Zadok? When you look up Zadok, you will find that he lived during the time of King David. Zadok (1Chronicles 12) is remembered for his loyalty to both David and God. The High Priest was to remind the king that he was to rule according to God's Laws. The High Priest was also to reside over the animal sacrifices and to act as an intercessor between man and God. Since Jesus is our High Priest, He will take over this part of the job. The line of Zadok will be responsible for doing the work of running the Temple. Why is Jesus not responsible for this? Jesus completed His part of task on the cross. This is why Jesus is sitting on the right hand of the Father (His work is finished). In Ezekiel the people who were high priests, but did not stay true to God (Ezekiel 8) will be demoted to lesser priests and do menial tasks (Ezekiel 44). Since these men have already died and are working in the Temple, is spoken plain in Ezekiel but does not make sense to us. God tells us that His ways are not our ways, and that it would be impossible for us to understand everything before it happens. Only after prophecy is fulfilled, can we look at it and understand it; and sometimes not even then.
The high Priest's duties will be carried out by the line of Zadok. Why is there this distinction? When Ezekiel was taken in the spirit from Babylon to the Temple in Jerusalem, the angel that went with him showed Ezekiel all the places the high priests had hidden their idols within the Temple. This was an abomination in the eyes of God. The High Priests that were to show the Israelites the true God, were now the ones responsible for adding to their unbelief. The line of Zadok were the only high priests not to turn away from God during this time.
Going back to what I mentioned earlier in this post, things not making sense. God chose the people of Israel, He judged them more severely than anyone else and if God chooses to show mercy to Israel above that which He does for others; God as God can do whatever it is He wants, and we can not say anything about it. All through out history, the Christians (and the world) have been envious of the Jews, that is why the Jews have been persecuted so unmercilessly by the world. Think about it, no matter where you find a Jew in the world he is still known as being a Jew; even when they had no homeland to call their own, they were still called Jews and not refugees.

20th Meeting - What's Missing in Temple.

Here is a list of items that are missing from the Temples that were built by Solomon and rebuilt by Ezra and Zerubbabel and enlarged by Herod the great. We need to understand who is building this temple and why. The previous post concerns people that do not believe for whatever reason this Temple will be built. The fact they believe like this shows they don't understand why this temple needed to be built. Go back to chapter 40 of Ezekiel, and reread who it was that did the measuring, and decreed that this information be written down. After doing so, it should be perfectly clear who is building the Temple and why. God commanded both the angel (to measure) and Ezekiel to write down what was measured.

1. The first thing not mentioned is Wall of Partition.
This was a small wall that separated the women from the men in the Temple, it was enlarged by Herod the great, remember Herod was not a Jew and had to worship as a Gentile when he went to the Temple. This king could not go everywhere in the Temple that a king of Israelite blood could go. The previous Temples were for the Jews and Proselyted (converted Jews) only. This new Temple will reach out to all believers. The Bible references are Isaiah 49:6; Isaiah 42:6; John 10:16 and Ephesians 2:14.

2. The next item is the court of Women.
The women could only go in the court if they had business with God, sacrifices and laying their offering. Herod being a Gentile had to have another Jew do this on his behalf. The fact that this is missing in this Temple means that God has called all of His believer's to Him. The Bible references for this Galations 3:27-29.

3. The Laver (Bronze Sea).
The priest's were required to wash before and after serving in the Temple. This was to remind them of their own sin, and that they needed to take care of their personal sin before they could perform their duties in the Temple. Jesus paid for all our sins at one time on the cross when he said "It is Finished". Bible references Ezra 36:24; Titus 3:5; 1John 1:9; John 15:3. Notice that there are Old Testament references and New Testament references.

4. The Lampstand.
With Jesus in the Temple His Shekinah glory will provide all the light that will be required.
What was the lesson of the seven churches in Revelation? They allowed their Lampstands to be taken out of those Churches. With Jesus in the Temple we will no longer need these Lampstands for Light and it will no longer be up to us to keep faith inside the Temple to keep it alive!! Bible references Isaiah 9:2; Matthew 4:13 - 16; Isaiah 49:6; John 1:4; John 8:12; Ezekiel 43:1.

5. The Table of Showbread.
This was to remind the Isralites that they were chosen. This is no longer needed because Jesus has brought together both groups of sheep (His Believer's) into one fold. This is exactly why this temple has to be built, Christians and Jews have been separated from each other too long. The Jews felt they were special in the Old Testament, and the Christians are forgetting the words of Jesus and the prophets, when they continue to separate themselves from the Jews. I believe that Romans Chapter 11:19 says that the Gentiles are grafted into the roots of the Israelites. This is not a misprint or mistake! Bible References Ezekiel 34:23; John 6:35.

6. The Altar of Incense.
When the incense was placed on the altar if the smoke went up, the Lord would accept the offering. With Jesus at the Temple and He is the one who is to intercede for us, the fact that He is there is all the proof we need that God is accepting our offering. Bible references Hebrews 7:25; Zechariah 8:20; Zechariah 8:23; Ezekiel 48:35; Isaiah 25:7.

7. The Veil.
This was the partition between the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies. This was a large woven partition that was as thick as a man's hand (about 4 inches). This was torn from Top to Bottom when Jesus died. The fact that it was torn from Top to Bottom, shows that God was responsible for its tearing. It symbolized that Jesus was now our intercessor and the regular high priest had lost this job. Jesus is our High Priest and King on the same line as Melchizedek, mentioned in Genesis 14:17 and Hebrews 7: 1-3. Except Jesus is greater!! Jesus being both High Priest and King would mean that He would have to go certain places in the Temple that those offices would require. The King could not enter the temple at all, except for Solomon up to this time of Jesus. Jesus is greater than Solomon, or Melchizedek. If God is going to show us what the world would be like with His leadership then this Temple must be built!! Bible references Isaiah 25:7.

8. The Ark of the Covenant.
This has been a very interesting item and the subject of much speculation considering its where abouts. The Ark of the Covenant represented where God would intercede for His people.
The Mercy Seat is a sacred place to Jews and Christians alike; they would like to come before God in front of His Mercy Seat as opposed to His Judgment Seat. Our God is a God of Mercy and a God of Justice. The Justice side of God required that His only Son be Cruciified in order that we believers would live. We can never forget this!! We must remember that the Ark of the Covenant is a symbol that pointed to Christ, when Jesus died on the cross, there was no more need for the Ark of the Covenant. It would stand to reason that in Ezekiel's Temple the Ark of the Covenant would be missing. Jesus has taken its place. Bible References Exodus 25:22; Jeremiah 23:5-6: Jeremiah 3: 16-17; Ezekiel 43:5 -7.

I hope you have a better understanding of Ezekiel's Temple now than before we studied it.

20th Meeting - Discussion concerning Millennial Temple.

We were discussing the need for a millennial Temple, when one of the students said that their Study Bible says that the Prince could not be Jesus, but the author of the Study Bible did not give a counter idea. As far as he (the author) is concerned it is not Jesus, end of story. This author is all over television, and held as an authority on the Bible. This happens time after time; I don't understand why people can not say they don't know, or talk with great authority about what they have not studied. I guess according to this author, "I can't get my mind around this possibility so it must be too big for God."
We are told elsewhere in the Bible that Jesus is our God-Man, High Priest, King, Prince and Redeemer. Why are we afraid to look at the parts of the Bible that would help show how Jesus would hold these positions?? The king or prince could not have access to everywhere in the temple. In Ezekiel's Temple this Prince would have this access. Why is what makes this such a great study for all Christians; but we have people who have graduated from Seminary and have not continued to study and meditate on the Word of God!! I have been studying the Bible for over 40 years, and I continue to learn, and do not believe I am an authority on the Bible at all.
Every time I read the Bible I learn something new. I guess that this is only true for some people only in some parts of the Bible. To me the Bible is Totally the Word of God, and God does not contradict Himself. God does not waste words or actions. What is this author going to do when he is confronted with this Temple and the Prince is Jesus Christ?? God is still on the Throne!!

19th Meeting - Millennial Temple con't 7th Post

The question was raised why there had to be a Millennial Temple at all. Good question! The answer starts in the Garden of Eden with the fall into sin. When Adam sinned, he brought sin into the world. Sin separated us from God; this set up the need to be restored to God. How was this to be accomplished? We needed a second Adam to take sin out of the world, but how? This second Adam would have to be stronger than the first Adam in order to stand up to the temptation of sin. This required a God-man to be our savior (John 3:16). How do we get rid of sin? The Bible tells us that without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness. If you follow the story of the Garden of Eden in Genesis; God provided the first blood sacrifice, when He provided Adam and Eve the skins of animals to cover their nakedness. The Old Testament points to the need of a Savior. The Temple in Jerusalem, pointed out the cost of sin by demanding an animal sacrifice to be brought to the Temple with the animal provided by the person requesting forgiveness. The person was to pick an unblemished animal from his own stock; this was to remind him of the cost of that sin. When he got to the Temple, he would go to the priest with his animal put his hand on the head of the animal and confess his sin in the presence of the priest transferring his sin to the unblemished (sinless) animal. When Adam and Eve sinned, they needed a blood sacrifice to atone for their sin. The animal sacrifice could only cover the sin it could not take it away. What was needed was a man who could live a sinless life, and be put to death on behalf of all mankind; in order to take sin out of the world. Only one man fits that bill, and His Name is Jesus Christ. Jesus paid the price for all mankind on the cross, when He said "It is Finished". As we needed a 2nd Adam to come into the world; in the same way we need a new Temple to show that the Savior as already come, this is the way to worship Him now. Instead of trying to dismiss the Millennial Temple, why don't you try to find all the differences between the Old Testament Temple, and this Millennial Temple. I assigned homework to find the missing Temple Furniture, but those are not all of the differences. I hope that when you contemplate these differences, you are blessed as I was, and am when I do the same.

19th Meeting - Millennial Temple con't 6th Post

We talked about how the Jews would be duped by the anti-christ. This led to the discussion between differences of Christian and Jewish scriptures. I reminded the class that when I first started teaching them about Daniel; I showed that the Jewish Tanakh, and the Masoretic Text both show the book of Daniel as part of the Kethuvim or other writings section of their scriptures. Christians show Daniel as a prophet, not only as a prophet but a Major Prophet. Why would Christians put Daniel in such a position of importance; it is because Jesus himself called Daniel a prophet. This led to a discussion of tranlations. I told them that the Jews went into Babylon speaking Hebrew, but after seventy years in captivity they went back to Israel speaking Aramaic, the language of the Babylonians. This made it necessary for the Jews to have their scriptures translated from Hebrew to Aramaic. At first, translators could not write their translations down. Over time this was relaxed and the Targums were born. Now because we are human we have two types of writings that were born out of this One is halakic or more in line with what scripture actually says; the other is haggadic or more open to other interpretations of the passage. It is the latter that is getting in the way of the Talmud actually interpreting scripture. This is how the Jews will be duped by the anti-christ.
This need for translators, is what Apostle Paul meant, when he talked about the need for translators for people speaking in tongues.

19th Meeting - Millennial Temple con't. 5th Post.

We had a good discussion last night, concerning the millennial temple, anti-christ's temple, and where these will be built.
First off, the temple that the anti-christ will build will take place during the first half of the tribulation period. The question was raised how a Jewish temple will be built on the Temple Mount (Mount Moriah) with the Mosque Dome of the Rock already there. This is a very good question, and marks one of the tell-tale accomplishments made by the anti-christ. Daniel is very clear that the anti-christ will rebuild the Jewish Temple. It is this bold statement, unbelievers of the Bible use to play down the fact that Jesus will come again. The anti-christ will be able to make all of the people believe that he can bring peace to this region, that has not had peace for a long time. This peace will be short lived; after 3.1/2 years, the anti-christ will go into the temple and come out and declare that he is god. When he does this, the Jews will realize who he is and will fight to to throw him out of Jerusalem. This will set up the battle of Armegeddon. When we mentioned the Dome of the Rock, the question was raised why the Jewish temple could not be rebuilt. The Dome of the Rock is said to be built over the rock that Abraham was going to sacrifice Issac on. It is said that the Ark of the Covenant also sat on this rock when the Jewish Temple was in existance. The Ark of the Covenant was located in the Holy of Holies, part of the Jewish Temple. Jews not sure where the Holy of Holies is, refuse to step on the Temple Mount for fear of dishonoring Holy Ground. This is why Jews worship and pray at the wailing wall, which is the only wall left standing that held up the Temple Mount.

The Millennial Temple is the temple that will be in existance during the 1,000 year reign of Jesus Christ. I assigned homework concerning this temple. There are eight pieces of temple furniture that are missing from the Millennial Temple that were part of Solomon's Temple. Will list missing furniture after next weeks meeting on Sunday Night.

18th Meeting - Ezekiel Chapter 45 4th Post

Chapter 45 opens with the allotment of land for their inheritance. Notice the size they are to set apart for the Lord's portion. The Holy District is to be 25,000 cubits long and 20,000 cubits broad (wide) the size of the cubits could either be standard 17.4 inches long or long being 20.4 inches long. Solomon used the long cubits in measuring his temple, so we will use the longer ones to calculate this temple. This works out to be 25,000 cubits about 8 miles long and about 6.1/2 miles wide.

This is larger in area than the Temple Mount now sitting in Jerusalem. Please do not mix this temple up with the one the anti-christ is to build during the tribulation period. This is the Millennial Temple, God gave the dimensions, and God will see that it is built. If you look in Bible Encyclopedias or Bible dictionaries for a drawing of this, you will not see it. Popular opinion does not believe this will actually be built, but is merely a symbolic idea. I believe that if God took this much trouble to make sure that we have an accurate description of this Temple, we will see it. This is God's Word and not mine!! From studying the Bible, we learn that Bible Prophecy is 100% accurate, add to that what Jesus said about not one yot or tittle will pass from the law and prophets until all is fulfilled. It is very hard to follow the symbolic road. This is why I feel compelled to speak out so strongly on this! The Major and Minor Prophets talk a lot about End Times, but I will bet that most of you who have studied Revelaton in the past have never heard any of these things. I told you when I started, that I would look at the Bible compeletly and not just the verses that back a certain agenda! Jesus told us to be aware of the signs, not to try and guess how He will fulfill history. Remember history really means His Story, it is going His way and by His Book!! God is still on the Throne!!

18th Meeting - Millennial Temple - Continued Post 3

Ezekiel Chapters 43 - 46; the Prince comes to live within the Temple. Unlike the Temples before, the Prince can go anywhere he wants in the Temple. This Prince is High Priest and ruler of the kingdom. This Prince is Jesus Christ; the Bible tells us that Jesus would be both High Priest and King. The Jews will restart their animal sacrifices as part of the reconstruction of this Temple. Ezekiel is very clear about this; and the book of Hebrews is also very clear when it says that Jesus is the last sacrifice. Now how can both of these statements be true? Ezekiel is just as much a part of the Bible as Hebrews is; God can not lie or contradict Himself. These statements although they seem to contradict themselves are both true. How God will manage this is His problem, we will know after the fact. This whole Millennium thing is a bit hard for Christians to grasp. It seems that the Jews will have to bring the blood sacrifices to Jesus instead of the ark of the covenant. This should be an eye opening situation; they have to deliver the animal sacrifice to the Redeemer that their ritual points to. This is a lot like the parable of the laborers, that go to work for a Danarius, at the end of the day, the laborers that went to the vineyard at the end of the day, got the same pay as the ones who worked the whole day. The ones who came early were angry because they worked for the same pay as the ones who just got there. When you look at this story further, you see that the owner of the vineyard can pay whoever he wants whatever he wants. He had to remind his workers that they were excited about getting a Danarius when they reported to the vineyard early in the day. The owner did not lie to them; they thought that since he was generous to the late comers, he would be generous to them as well. The message of this parable is that the owner by being the owner can do whatever he wants. We have to remember that God chose the Jews and because of this He can treat them however He wants, and we should be happy, because if He continues to treat them well, He will also treat us like the adopted children we are. God is still on the throne.

18th Meeting - Millennial Temple Contined 2nd Post

To understand why God needed to Have His Temple, should not be a surprise to you. When man sinned in the Garden of Eden, this made necessary for God to provide a Redeemer; a second Adam to fix first Adam's mistake. The first Temple also was flawed, it was to show the Jews that they needed a Redeemer. God would provide a new Temple, set up by Him in order to show the Jews, the correct way to worship God. This is what this Temple is supposed to do. Now we will look at Ezekiel Chapters 40-48.
Chapter 40 starts out with Ezekiel being transported to a high mountain where he could see the Temple Mount in a vision and sees the destruction of the first temple. Ezekiel sees a man whose appearance was like bronze, this is an angel, he has a linen cord and a measuring reed in his hand. Chapters 40 - 42 describe the outer parts of the temple. Take time to calculate the size of these dimensions, the place will be huge! Now remember who it is that is doing the measuring for Ezekiel, God is using the angel to call out the information and is making sure Ezekiel is writing it down; I don't believe God is going through all this trouble for a symbolic exercise; I believe that like it or not at some point you will see this Temple. In chapter 43 the glory (Shekhinah) of the Lord comes and fills this temple. Through out the discussion of the Temple, God keeps making Ezekiel aware of where in His house man has defiled it. Man will not defile this Temple!!! This is what God says, not me!

18th Meeting - Ezekiel 40 - 48 Millennial Temple.

This is probably the most controversial subject of end times. Modern scholarship wants to make this symbolic instead of literal, because they are more comfortable with this idea. However, this provides the following problems. We tell people that God is the Alpha and the Omega, but when it comes to interpretation of end times we seem to only focus on the Omega of ideas. In the core verses on the right side of my blog, I have listed what Jesus said in His Sermon on the Mount. "I did not come to do away with the law and the prophets, but to fulfill them, every yot and tittle will not pass away until all is fulfilled". Ezekiel is a a prophet and is found in the prophecy section of our Bible, having this position also makes it part of the authorized Word of God and part of our cannon.
Prophecy in the Old and New Testament as far as during the Life of Christ was fulfilled literally, how can we look at Revelation and say now it will be fulfilled symbolically. This idea is not consistent with the rest of the Bible. When we read the Bible, we need to remember whose words these are. God's ways are not our's. It is our interpretation of the Bible that makes Ezekiel's temple not consistent with what Hebrews says about animal sacrifice. Ezekiel and Hebrews are both part of our Bible and as such are authorized Word of God. God can not lie, and God does not contradict Himself. If you re-read my explanation of Exegesis, and Hermeneutics, the Word of God is always correct, and when we misunderstand, the fault is not God's Word, but our understanding of it. When we look at end times we need to remember that God is revealing mysteries to us and it will go His way, we don't have to explain it, just mark the signs as Jesus told us to do. This is what is important.

17th Meeting Revelation Chapter 20 - Comment Con't.

The God-man (Jesus) had to die; to fulfill the justice of God. When Adam and Eve sinned; blood had to be shed in order to restore their relationship to God. Someone had to pay for the disobedience of Adam and Eve in the garden; because they brought sin into the world, when their sin was wiped out, so was everyone else's sin. To claim this you need to believe that Jesus Christ is your Savior (John 3:16); because Jesus was the one that accomplished this. This explains why Satan was able to be thrown into the Abyss. Jesus had already destroyed his power on the cross when Jesus said "It is Finished".
Jesus will come back to rule the earth for 1,000 years, this is what millennium means. We will see what the world would be like with God in control instead of Satan. Satan needs to be taken out of the picture in order for us to get an accurate picture of how different God's world will be. The animals that we fear will eat plants and not us. The Old Testament says that the lion will lie down with the lamb. The beast of the wild will be led by a child. This would make camping in the wilderness not as scary. We will still have our free choice, which will prove our need for a Savior.
We will still have the ability to sin during this time, we won't have Satan around to entice us to sin more. We will be able to live longer. this will be explained in the next chapter of Revelation.

17th Meeting Revelation Chapter 20 - Comment

What is the purpose of the millennium? Since the fall in Genesis, the world has not been the way God had imagined it. God gave us free choice, and it was this gift; that the devil or Satan used to allow sin to get between God and man. God told Adam you can eat freely of every tree in this garden except one. This tree was the tree of knowledge of good and evil, Satan got Eve to eat of this tree because he told her God did not want her to eat of it, because she would become like God. The lie Satan told her would be like God. When Eve ate the fruit of this tree, she had broken the bond between God and her; when she had Adam also eat, the separation was complete. The only way to restore this bond between God and mankind was through a Redeemer. Jesus Christ is that Redeemer! When Eve sinned(disobediance of God's Word), she allowed sin into the world. The wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23). The only way to restore the world was through a Redeemer, and this Redeemer had to be sinless. How is this possible? Free choice makes man susceptible to sin. For this reason we would need someone stronger, to be able to resist the temptation of sin. This required a God-man to become the redeemer. This is what exactly happened. Jesus was virgin born, meaning he had no earthly father. Jesus is proof of this God-man. Matthew 1:1-16, is the genealogy of Jesus Christ; there is another genealogy of Jesus in Luke 3:23-38. Why are there two different genealogies of Jesus Christ?
The one in Matthew belonged to Joseph, the husband of Mary. Joseph had to be of the line of David in order to be forced to move from Nazareth to Bethlehem by order of the Roman Ceasar. God made this happen; the Romans did not believe in the Most High God, and would not have done anything to help with fulfilling of this prophecy. This puts Joseph Mary's betrothed at Bethlehem, but there is no reason for Mary to travel there. The fact that Joseph was her betrothed made it possible for this to be accomplished. If you look at the genealogies, both are of David's line, but the one in Luke is the unbroken line, this is the line of Mary. Women were not treated with much importance during this time in history. Why would Mary's genealogy be mentioned at all? Mary had to give birth to her God-man in Bethlehem to fulfill God's prophecy.
These two genealogies prove that Joseph was not the father. If you go back to Genesis 3:15, God curses both the seed of woman and the seed of man. The woman's seed is the seed of God; the man's seed is the seed of the serpent or of Satan. This explains why we have two types of people, one that serves God and one that serves evil. This explains that Jesus Christ is the Messiah, Redeemer, King of Kings!

17th Meeting Revelation Chapter 20

Chapter 20 opens with an angel binding up Satan in the Abyss, where he will spend the next 1,000 years. This sets up the millenniual period of Jesus reign here on earth. This was quite an interesting discussion we had concerning the millennium. We have tried not to discuss different schools of thought on End Times until after we look at what the Bible says. I introduced three new schools that believe that Jesus will come pre-mill, mid-mill, and post mill. Most of class never heard about this, so I told them we would look at it later. We had a discussion concerning the first resurrection, and what that entails. You know that when Jesus told the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, they were in Hades or (Scheol). On the cross Jesus told the thief that "Today you will be with Me in paradise". Hades and paradise are not the same place. When Jesus returns the dead who believed in God would rise first, and the unbelieving dead will still be asleep. Now this group of dead are both believing Old and New Testament people and will rise. They will receive their resurrected body at this time. The believers who are still alive at this point will also receive their resurrected bodies at this time also, but after the believing dead receive theirs. This is what the first Epistle of Thessalonians talks about. When this happens we will meet Jesus in the Air, while He is on His way to the Mount of Olives. Zechariah chapter 14, will shed more light on this.
Verse 7 talks about Gog and Magog, but only after Satan is released, for this to happen the 1,000 year of Jesus reign is over. This is after the battle of Armeggeddon as mentioned in last post.
Look carefully at who destroys this large army, it is God.

16th Meeting - Continued Revelation Chapter 19

As John continued to look at the vision, he saw a white horse and rider. The rider is called Faithful and True; with justice he judges and makes war. This rider is Jesus; his eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. The armies of heaven are following him riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, if you look at Isaiah 63:3, will explain the blood; the whole chapter of Isaiah talks about God and His wrath and how deal with it. In the earlier chapters of Revelation, we talked about the grapes of wrath, and Isaiah talks about the wine press, which is symbolism for war. We need to keep in mind, why Jesus is coming back and riding his white charger. The anti-christ was waging war with the saints and was about to beat them, when all of a sudden in the Eastern sky He appears to save the day. Jesus will rule with an iron scepter; which means He will Judge with justice and truth. The war is the battle of Armaggeddon, notice Gog and Magog are not mentioned here we will discuss them in the next chapter of Revelation. Just like now, it may not look like God is control, but God is Still on the Throne!