Israel: Land Of Miracles

Israel: Land Of Miracles

Today is Pentecost Sunday. Pentecost is an annual harvest festival that occurs seven weeks or 50 days after Passover. It became an important Christian holiday after God poured out the Holy Spirit upon the Jerusalem church on the first Pentecost after Christ’s resurrection.

Pentecost is the last of the Spring feast. There are 7 feast which can be found in Lev. 23:4-44. The Spring Feast Are:

Passover; Unleavened Bread;

First Fruits; Pentecost.

The Fall feast are:

Trumpets; Atonement; Tabernacles.

Jesus has fulfilled each of the Spring feast and we know that He will fulfill each of the Fall feast.

Passover: Jesus is our Passover lamb.

1 Corinthians 5:7–8 (NKJV) 7 Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.

8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Jesus is our Unleavened Bread:

The unleavened bread in the New Testament is the body of our Lord. He is described as “the Bread of Life”.

John 6:48 (NKJV) 48 I am the bread of life.

Jesus is our First fruits:

1 Corinthians 15:22–23 (NKJV) 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. 23 But each one in his own order: Christ the first fruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming.

Pentecost: This is when the Holy Spirit was given to the church.

Acts 2:1–4 (NKJV) 1 When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them.

4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Each of these feast was given to the Nation of Israel and fulfilled in our Jesus.

Many on this Jewish feast day don’t understand the prophetic day’s that we are living in and as I’ve said many times, if you want to know, were we are in God prophetic time clock, look at Israel.

This little country, the size of New Jersey, stop’s the world in its track when something is going on there, and church family, much is going on there.

So in very short time that we have today, let me give you why we support Israel.

Remember this on the prophetic timepiece, Israel is God’s hour hand, Jerusalem is His minute hand and the Temple mount is the second hand.

On the Bunting map published in 1581, this is a historical illustration of the world. The three continents of the old world are shown divided by the seas, but connected by Jerusalem.

Jerusalem is set at the center of the world.

Please put map on screen:

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Why, Israel, Why Jerusalem?

It all began with a man called Abram and a covenant that God made with Him. God promised to bless Him and that this covenant would be and everlasting covenant.

Genesis 12:2–3 (NKJV) 2 I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

Genesis 17:7–8 (NKJV) 7 And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you.

8 Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”

Through Abraham 3 religions’ of the world have come, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. These three religions are followed by more than half the people on planet Earth.

But because of Israel’s disobedience, they were scattered throughout the world for 2000 years and yet on May 14th 1948, in one of the greatest miracle’s ever, Israel came back to their homeland. God’s word came true.

Matthew 24:1–2 (NKJV) 1 Then Jesus went out and departed from the temple, and His disciples came up to show Him the buildings of the temple.

2And Jesus said to them, “Do you not see all these things? Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”

This happened in 70 AD and now they came back to their home land.

This broke Jesus’ heart when He spoke of this.

Luke 19:41–44 (NKJV) 41 Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it,

42 saying, “If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

43 For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side,

44 and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”

WEEP: klaio To weep, wail, lament, implying not only the shedding of tears, but also every external expression of grief.

Luke 13:34–35 (NKJV) 34 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!

35 See! Your house is left to you desolate; and assuredly, I say to you, you shall not see Me until the time comes when you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ”

The land died when they left and even refused to give any crops.

Mark Twain in his travel’s said in 1867

[a] desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds-a silent mournful expanse....A desolation is here that not even imagination can grace with the pomp of life and action....We never saw a human being on the whole route....There was hardly a tree or a shrub anywhere. Even the olive and the cactus, those fast friends of the worthless soil, had almost deserted the country.”

Just like the Bible said:

Ezekiel 33:28–29 (NKJV) 28 For I will make the land most desolate, her arrogant strength shall cease, and the mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that no one will pass through.

29Then they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have made the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed.” ’

But then God started to prepare the land for their return in 1948.

World War I, where God used the war to position Israel. Had the Jews willingly gone back to Israel then, they probably would not have suffered from the Holocaust, this was 1917.

In World War II, God was preparing Israel’s return to their land. 50 years after WWI, God redeemed the land for Israel in the Six-Day War, 1967, Jerusalem came back to Israel. unprecedented in history.

Ezekiel 36:8–11 (NKJV) 8 But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to My people Israel, for they are about to come. 9 For indeed I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown.

10 I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.

11 I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bear young; I will make you inhabited as in former times, and do better for you than at your beginnings. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 36:24–28 (NKJV) 24 For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land.

25 Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.

26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.

28 Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God.

Now Israel is in their land, they are the fig tree that Jesus told us to watch.

Matthew 24:32–35 (NKJV) 32 “Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near. 33 So you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near—at the doors! 34 Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place. 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.

Today Israel ranked 8th most powerful country in the world.

One of the strongest militaries, major seller of fruits and flower’s to Europe. Just like the scripture say’s.

Isaiah 35:1–2 (NKJV) 1 The wilderness and the wasteland shall be glad for them, And the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose; 2 It shall blossom abundantly and rejoice, Even with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, The excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They shall see the glory of the Lord, The excellency of our God.

Then God gave this great prophecy about them coming back to life.

Ezekiel 37:1–14 (NKJV) 1The hand of the Lord came upon me and brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones. 2 Then He caused me to pass by them all around, and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and indeed they were very dry.

3 And He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” So I answered, “O Lord God, You know.”

4 Again He said to me, “Prophesy to these bones, and say to them, ‘O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord!

5 Thus says the Lord God to these bones: “Surely I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.

6 I will put sinews on you and bring flesh upon you, cover you with skin and put breath in you; and you shall live. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.” ’ ”

7 So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and suddenly a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to bone.

8 Indeed, as I looked, the sinews and the flesh came upon them, and the skin covered them over; but there was no breath in them.

9 Also He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.” ’ ”

10 So I prophesied as He commanded me, and breath came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, an exceedingly great army.

11 Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They indeed say, ‘Our bones are dry, our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off!’

12 Therefore prophesy and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Behold, O My people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up from your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. 13 Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O My people, and brought you up from your graves. 14 I will put My Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken it and performed it,” says the Lord.’ ”

Church family we support Israel and we are blessed because of it.

We know also that hard days are coming for Israel so we need to continue to pray for this land.

Psalm 122:6 (NKJV) 6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May they prosper who love you.

Ezekiel 38-39 brings that a huge army will be coming against Israel and I believe this will be after the Rapture and all will have forsaken Israel.

This army will consist of Iran, Russia, Turkey, Sudan and Libya and other nation’s, but even with everyone forsaking them, God is going to show that He has not.

Ezekiel 38:8 (NKJV) 8 After many days you will be visited. In the latter years you will come into the land of those brought back from the sword and gathered from many people on the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate; they were brought out of the nations, and now all of them dwell safely.

They will come to take plunder. Israel had no plunder in 1948 but today the 8th. strongest nation.

Ezekiel 38:12 (NKJV) 12 to take plunder and to take booty, to stretch out your hand against the waste places that are again inhabited, and against a people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land.

Ezekiel 38:16 (NKJV)16 You will come up against My people Israel like a cloud, to cover the land. It will be in the latter days that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me, when I am hallowed in you, O Gog, before their eyes.”

BUT GOD, even when all nation’s turn a blind eye.

Ezekiel 38:18–23 (NKJV) 18 “And it will come to pass at the same time, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” says the Lord God, “that My fury will show in My face.

19 For in My jealousy and in the fire of My wrath I have spoken: ‘Surely in that day there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel,

20 so that the fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the beasts of the field, all creeping things that creep on the earth, and all men who are on the face of the earth shall shake at My presence. The mountains shall be thrown down, the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.’

21I will call for a sword against Gog throughout all My mountains,” says the Lord God. “Every man’s sword will be against his brother.

22 And I will bring him to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed; I will rain down on him, on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, flooding rain, great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

23 Thus I will magnify Myself and sanctify Myself, and I will be known in the eyes of many nations. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.” ’

These are exciting and can be scary time’s if you don’t know what’s going on, But we have a God who is outside of time and He has shown us the end from the beginning so we can stay in peace. So continue to look up, as our redemption is drawing near and know that God is not done with us or with the nation of Israel.

The Government of Israel, on Wednesday, 15 May 2024), unanimously approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proposal to reject the UN General Assembly decision of 10 May 2024.

Prime Minister Netanyahu said:

"Today, the Government opposed last week's UN decision to advance recognition of a Palestinian state.

We will not reward the terrible massacre of October 7, which 80% of Palestinians, both in Judea and Samaria, and Gaza, support.

We will not allow them to establish a terrorist state from which they will be able to vigorously attack us.

Nobody will prevent us, will prevent Israel, from realizing our basic right to self-defense – neither the UN General Assembly nor any other body.

We will stand together with our head held high in order to defend our country."

In the framework of the rejection, the Government has determined:

1. To reject the UN General Assembly decision of 10 May 2024 to upgrade the status of the Palestinian Authority and give it additional privileges, which are usually reserved for UN member states.

2. To determine that nothing in the aforesaid decision will change the status of the territories in question; nothing in it will grant any right, or detract from any rights of the State of Israel and Jewish People in the Land of Israel.

3. To determine that the aforesaid decision will not constitute a basis for future negotiations, and does not advance a peaceful solution.