The prophet Isaiah wrote in a warning to the Gentiles, “Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.
[2] For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.
[3] Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
[4] And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.” (Isa. 34:1-4)

Jordan explains, “You should never say there’s no message to the Gentiles in Israel’s scripture. Here’s one! The problem in Israel’s scripture with messages to the Gentiles is that they were always negative. Gentiles didn’t have any hope in ‘time past,’ and the message from the Lord here is, ‘I’m gonna come back one day and clean your clock!’ ”

When it says the heavens will be dissolved and “rolled together,” that’s saying Jesus Christ’s also going to clean house in the heavens, revamping the entire organizational structure of the government there.

“He’s going to dispossess Satan and all of his angels, and there’s going to be war up there to do that,” says Jordan. “They’re not going to give up lightly, either. In the Bible, the first principle of warfare is that the only reason to enter into a war is to have massive victory. If you aren’t going to go in and beat the snot out of the other guy—wipe him out and come home—don’t go. Now that’s the attitude of the Bible about war.

“If you’re just going to go slap somebody around and make them mad, and then say, ‘Now, I want you to behave’. . . Well, that’s how some of you discipline your kids, isn’t it? And then you wonder why they get mad at you and run your life. Well, you just never conquered them. In the Bible, when God starts the war, it’s over with.

“In Zech. 12:2, God says He’s going to make Jerusalem a ‘cup of trembling,’ and you know it is just that today. Most of the controversy that goes on on the planet today, somewhere in it, it revolves around Israel.

“All the Islamic hatred toward the West eventually focuses on their hatred toward Israel, and you want to ask them, ‘Why do you hate. . . I mean, it’s just a puny, little-bitty. . . there’s not enough of them to worry about really, numerically. Why do you get so bent on destroying that little nation?’

“Well, God said they’re going to be a cup of trembling. The whole world’s going to be tore up about them until right here (at the Second Coming) and He’s going to come back and settle the issue.

“He’s going to come back and make sure everybody knows who really owns Palestine—that God gave it to Israel. The controversy of Zion will be over with. How? He’s going to come back and set His kingdom up. But notice what He does as He comes?

“Isaiah 34 goes on, ‘And the streams thereof (referring to Bozrah and Idumea) shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.’

“Now notice what he’s describing there. This land down here south of the Dead Sea is going to turn to burning pitch. He’s going to set the ground on fire back there. And what he says there is that ‘the dust thereof shall be as brimstone.’ Then you read about how ‘it shall not be quenched.’

“You remember that verse in Mark 9 where Jesus talks about hell ‘where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.’ Remember in Revelation 14 where He talks about ‘the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night.’

“People say, ‘Well, that can’t be literal because in eternity there’s no day or night,’ but He’s not talking about eternity. You have to study the doctrine of eternal judgment dispensationally, like everything else, and if you can’t, it all gets blended together like there are no dispensational distinctions, and it’s no wonder people wind up in such confusion.

“The Lord says in Deut. 32:22, ‘For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.’

“What’s happening there is that when Christ comes back, that fire that goes out of His mouth—in judgment—literally sets the ground on fire, and hell is here in the center of the earth.

“In Idumea, there’s a passageway, or a shaft, that goes down into hell from the earth. In fact, there’s more than one of them. There’s also one in Babylon. Now, you can’t see the shaft because it’s a spiritual thing in a different dimension, but it’s there.

“It’s filled up with earth (right now), and what He’s literally going to do is burn it out, melt it and make it into lava that will flow away the earth there so that (in the kingdom reign of Christ) you’re literally going to be able to walk up and physically look down into hell right there at the bottom of the Dead Sea.

“In that time, when ‘all flesh shall worship before (Jesus Christ),’ and the whole world sends up representatives to worship in Jerusalem in that kingdom, it says, ‘And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.’ (Isa. 66: 24)

“That’s saying that after they leave from worshipping before the Lord, they get a guided tour and go right over and just look right down into hell. Do you think maybe that would influence somebody to do right?!

“You know how you keep from getting whacked in the kingdom? Don’t break the law. You remember that passage in Mark 9 where Christ says that if your hand offend thee, cut it off, for it’s better to go through life without a hand than to be cast into that thing right there?

“In the Old Testament, that place is called Tophet and the Greek word in the New Testament is Gehenna. And that thing lasts through the Millennium. It’ll be a monument.

“Now, by the way, there’s another opening over here in Babylon where you don’t look down and see the souls of damned people. Instead, you see the demonic hosts—the fallen angels and so forth and it’s called a cage. Rev. 18:2 says it’s ‘become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.’

“So you get a zoo in one spot and hell in another. Do you get the idea there’s going to be physical proofs demonstrating God’s attitude toward sin and what happens when you don’t keep the law?”