When the Towers Fall

A Prophecy of What Must Happen Soon

Steven J. Robinson

• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781666735772, 9781666793208
• eBook ISBN: 9781666793215
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Theology

The Book of Revelation describes natural disasters that we have only recently come to know about: coronal mass ejections, global wildfires, asteroid impacts. Could it be that they lie not far in the future? The vision of the four horsemen came to pass in 1870-1945. Nineteen centuries after the Romans drove the Jews from their land, Israel in 1948 was restored to statehood, and Jesus foretold that there would be people alive then who would still be alive when he returned. Revelation refers to the Arab-Israeli wars that in 1967 and 1973 threatened to destroy the new state; also to a time, still in the future, when the country will be conquered. Like the picture on a jigsaw box, John's prophecy enables us, the last generation, to fit the scattered pieces of Old Testament prophecy together (much of it unfulfilled) and look back on what God has been doing through all history, from Creation to the present day. The present age climaxes with the resurrection of Israel's dead and a global earthquake that destroys civilization--our civilization. Unprecedented suffering lies ahead, and we need to be prepared for it. After these things the kingdom will come.

Appendix 1

References to God as Creator in the Bible

The Israelites understood that they were the creation of Yahweh, the one who had created all things. He had taken their ancestor Abraham out of Sumer and led him to the land of Canaan, where his descendants became a new nation, informed by his life-giving law. While this was a different kind of creation from that with which all things began, it was still supernatural.

Yahweh worship was founded on three facts: he had created the world, he had redeemed Israel from slavery, and he had given Israel a reflection of his holiness and righteousness in the Torah. The biblical authors mention the Creation as many times as they mention the Exodus, perceiving that everything owed its existence to him and he alone had power over the weather and the womb. That is what made him God. By contrast, Baal did not create the world, did not redeem Israel, and was not holy and righteous, though he was much less demanding.

The New Testament conception was the same, but with some additions: God had created all things through Jesus Christ, believers in Christ could be redeemed from sin in a more fundamental way than was possible under the Law, and Christ was the perfect reflection of God’s holiness and righteousness. In the 19th century, under pressure from the prophets of Baal in new guise, the Church began to abandon belief in God as Creator, and it became customary to talk about Providence rather than God. The Church ceased to understand who God was and forfeited much of her power as witness-bearer.

Let us not fool ourselves. If the world is the product of atoms ordering themselves through time, and if atoms themselves produce consciousness, the wise men of this world have some basis for arguing that God does not exist, for his existence then explains nothing. Some try to save the biblical testimony by arguing that evolution and creation amount to the same thing: heaven and earth were created over billions of years, and creation is therefore still going on today. However, Genesis states that the creation of the world was finished “in the beginning,” and scientists themselves never speak of creation when describing natural processes. Unlike most theologians, scientists know what the word means.

To follow Baal has always been the...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• The Final Book
• Author’s Testimony
• Revelation of John
• One like a Son of Adam
• The State of the Church
• A Vision of the Throne
• The Scroll and the Six Seals
• The 144,000 and an Innumerable Throng
• The Six Trumpets
• The Two Witnesses and the Last Trumpet
• The Woman, the Man and the Dragon
• The Two Beasts
• The Harvest of the Earth
• The Seven Bowls of God’s Fury
• Babylon the Great
• The Fall of Babylon the Great
• The Marriage Feast and the Banquet of God
• The Beginning and the End of the Kingdom
• The Holy City Jerusalem
• Concluding Words
• Daniel, the Colossus and the Tree
• Daniel’s Seventy Years and Seventy Times Seven Years
• Appendix 1: References to God as Creator in the Bible
• Appendix 2: References to the Resurrection in the Old Testament
• References