Dr Hollisa Alewine – Footsteps of Messiah Part 207 (The Time Traveler's Quick Guide to Armageddon Pt 2) for week of 9 August, 2026

  The Time Traveler's Quick Guide to Armageddon Part Two   Hello, again, time travelers. It is, was, and will be good that you’re back with us for our journey through time with Abraham, Moses, Deborah, and...well...Yeshua. We don’t have the names of the major players at the final Armageddon, but all we need to know is that Yeshua will be there.   Last week we looked at the prophetic cycling of particular place names that threaded into Deborah’s dilemma with the kings of the east, Jabin and Sisera. By rolling through the Torah scrolls, she read the prophecies, and with a Divine directive, she used the Torah lessons to guide the Israelite army to victory alongside Barak. This week we’ll gather some more clues in our quest for understanding Armageddon. I guess we better make that Har Megiddo, my brave Israelite warriors and scholars!   Let’s take a look at a couple more of the geographical locations of our heroes against the kings of the east. Alongside her Torah scrolls, Deborah holds the land title descriptions handed down from Joshua. Just for a quick trip, time travelers, set your time machine to the time of Joshua’s (Yehoshua’s) conquest west of the Jordan River. You’ll need those maps you taped to your steering wheel last week. Locate the one from the time of Joshua’s conquest and/or the time of the Judges, just don’t study your maps while you’re flying through time. I’m not sure what you might hit.   Okay, here we are. Take a good look at the tribal boundaries from Joshua’s conquest. Each tribe’s territory is described in detail, just like a land deed today. Locate the area of Zevulun, Ephraim, and Issachar, which takes up the area between the Galilee and the Mediterranean Sea.   Deborah’s battle with Sisera took place at the junction of Zevulun and Issachar’s territory along with the Levitical clan of Gershon’s. Look over the following verses closely and find the places on your map. Now here are the clues. What looks like a strange extra phrase “toward the sunrise [mizrach]” in the land title is a hint to the future battle with kings of the east:   [The allotment of the tribe of Zevulun] “Then it turned from Sarid to the east toward the sunrise as far as the border of Chisloth-tabor, and it proceeded to Daberath and up to Japhia.” (Jos 19:12)    וְשָׁב מִשָּׂרִיד קֵדְמָה מִזְרַח הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ עַל־גְּבוּל כִּסְלֹת תָּבֹר וְיָצָא אֶל־הַדָּבְרַת וְעָלָה יָפִיעַ   [To the Levitical clan of Gershon...] From the tribe of Issachar, they gave Kishion with its pasture lands, Daberath with its pasture lands...(Jos 21:28) “...and from the tribe of Issachar: Kedesh with its pasture lands, Daberath with its pasture lands” (1Ch 6:72)   More place-names stand out: Tabor, Kishon, Daberath, Kedesh.   Back to the future, young warriors. Let’s go back to Deborah’s palm tree. Can you see her? She’s scroll-rolling again. She's totally ignoring that plate of pita, hummus, and olive relish. It looks delicious.   Last week we connected Deborah’s Kedesh with Kadesh, a place in the wilderness the four kings conquered before they turned back east and engaged the five kings and kidnapped Lot and his family.   There is also a Kadesh that was a key encampment for the Israelites in the wilderness. Deborah links Kedesh to Kadesh. Holy to holy. In fact, this is the encampment in the wilderness of Tzin where Miriam died and was buried in the month of Passover, the same month Pharaoh and his chariots were defeated:   “Then the sons of Israel, the whole congregation, came to the wilderness of Zin in the first month; and the people stayed at Kadesh. Now Miriam died there and was buried there.” (Nu 20:1-2)   For Deborah, life as a judge of Israel couldn’t have been all peace, love, and casseroles. If women in ministry are rejected today, imagine how difficult it would have been a few thousand years ago! Miriam’s ministry in Israel must have been a special inspiration to Deborah, a judge and prophetess:   “For I b