132    The Bible and the Future of the World 

will not permit many of the sins that secular society sometimes calls rights. 

Such changes will please God. On the other hand, the Arabs will not permit 

freedom of worship by Christians and Jews. Christian Churches and Jewish 

Synagogues will be closed and the freedom  of religion will be severely 

limited. And the oppression against the Christian faith will worsen as the 

occupation continues. 

    The Arab occupiers will behave arrogantly and will exalt themselves, as is 

written in the book of Daniel,  he did as he pleased and magnified himself  

(Dan 8:4). But when God is finished using the Arabs as the rod of His 

punishment, God will severely punish those Arabs who behaved arrogantly 

and who committed crimes against God's people. 

Jerusalem under Siege 

      `And when you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, 

but on your right side, and bear the punishment of the house of Judah; forty 

days I assign you, a day for each year. And you shall set your face toward 

the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm bared; and you shall prophesy against 

the city.'   (Ezekiel 4:6 7). 

    During the Forty Years  (A.D. 2000 to 2039/2040), Jerusalem shall be 

under siege, surrounded by enemies on all sides. Since Holy Scripture says 

that Jerusalem will be under siege for forty years, I conclude that Jerusalem 

will be unconquered during the Forty Years. For once a city has been 

conquered, the siege has ended. Therefore, Israel will not be conquered by 

the Arabs during World War III. 

    Eventually, Jerusalem will be the seat of the Christian Church. Since 

Jerusalem will suffer for forty years, so also will the Church suffer for the 

same forty years. And Rome, as the seat of the Church, will also endure the 

same forty years of punishment from God. 

The Four Horsemen of Revelation 

    The events described in Revelation as the first six seals of the scroll 

opened by the Lamb, and the first six trumpets of the seventh seal, occur 

during and at the end of the Forty Years. The first horseman (the first seal) is 

the war of the Arab nations against Europe (World War III). The second 

horseman (the second seal) is the time of violence and disorder which will 

follows after the war begins. The third horseman (the third seal) is the great 

famine which will occur during the Arab war and occupation of Europe. 

The fourth horseman (the fourth seal) is the widespread death from various 

causes which will follow after the famine begins.