Prophecy Concerning Israel
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Prophecy
Prophecy
God’s telling of what is going to happen
God’s word for us
God’s promises, warnings,
prophecy is not a prediction, an educated guess
Prophecy is also a divine warning - this will happen if you ....
prophecy is revealing something only God could know
A prophet receives information from God, and tells others
we are looking at Israel today
warnings- fulfilment of
promise and the fulfilment of
Israel’s Past
Israel’s Past
The Scattering
The Scattering
You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven in multitude, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God. And it shall be, that just as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good and multiply you, so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you and bring you to nothing; and you shall be plucked from off the land which you go to possess. “Then the Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known—wood and stone.
The ten tribes of Israel were taken by the Assyrians into captivity
the 2 tribes of Judah were taken by the Babylonians
Ad 70 again the Israelite were dispersed from the land into all the world
After that God said that He would destroy the land
I will bring the land to desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.
The year was 1867, a young writer would leave San Francisco on a world tour. His boss at the newspaper set it all up. In June of that year,Mark Twain set sail with others on this excursion. In September they arrived in Israel, and this is what he wrote about the description of the land, and the towns.
On the land of Palestine
Of all the lands there are for dismal scenery, I think Palestine must be the prince. The hills are barren, they are dull of color, they are unpicturesque in shape. The valleys are unsightly deserts fringed with a feeble vegetation that has an expression about it of being sorrowful and despondent. The Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee sleep in the midst of a vast stretch of hill and plain wherein the eye rests upon no pleasant tint, no striking object, no soft picture dreaming in a purple haze or mottled with the shadows of the clouds. Every outline is harsh, every feature is distinct, there is no perspective--distance works no enchantment here. It is a hopeless, dreary, heart-broken land.
Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes. Over it broods the spell of a curse that has withered its fields and fettered its energies. Where Sodom and Gomorrah reared their domes and towers, that solemn sea now floods the plain, in whose bitter waters no living thing exists--over whose wave less surface the blistering air hangs motionless and dead-- about whose borders nothing grows but weeds, and scattering tufts of cane, and that treacherous fruit that promises refreshment to parching lips, but turns to ashes at the touch. Nazareth is forlorn; about that ford of Jordan where the hosts of Israel entered the Promised Land with songs of rejoicing, one finds only a squalid camp of fantastic Bedouins of the desert; Jericho the accursed, lies a moldering ruin, to-day, even as Joshua's miracle left it more than three thousand years ago; Bethlehem and Bethany, in their poverty and their humiliation, have nothing about them now to remind one that they once knew the high honor of the Saviour's presence; the hallowed spot where the shepherds watched their flocks by night, and where the angels sang Peace on earth, good will to men, is untenanted by any living creature, and unblessed by any feature that is pleasant to the eye. .... The noted Sea of Galilee, where Roman fleets once rode at anchor and the disciples of the Saviour sailed in their ships, was long ago deserted by the devotees of war and commerce, and its borders are a silent wilderness; Capernaum is a shapeless ruin; Magdala is the home of beggared Arabs; Bethsaida and Chorazin have vanished from the earth, and the "desert places" round about them where thousands of men once listened to the Saviour's voice and ate the miraculous bread, sleep in the hush of a solitude that is inhabited only by birds of prey and skulking foxes.
Palestine is desolate and unlovely. And why should it be otherwise? Can the curse of the Deity beautify a land? Palestine is no more of this work-day world. It is sacred to poetry and tradition--it is dream-land.
Moses prophesied to the children of Israel these words
Deuteronomy 29 22 “And the next generation, that is, your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will come from a distant land, when they will see the plagues of that land and its diseases that Yahweh has inflicted upon it, will say, 23 ‘All its land is brimstone and salt left by fire, none of its land will be sown, and it will not make plants sprout out and it will not grow any vegetation; it is as the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Adman and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overturned in his anger and in his wrath.’
Cahn, Jonathan. The Oracle (p. 43). Charisma House. Kindle Edition.
But God was not done with them
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.
The Jewish people are a eternal people
The Regathering
The Regathering
God is going to gather His people from the scattering
It shall come to pass in that day That the Lord shall set His hand again the second time To recover the remnant of His people who are left, From Assyria and Egypt, From Pathros and Cush, From Elam and Shinar, From Hamath and the islands of the sea. He will set up a banner for the nations, And will assemble the outcasts of Israel, And gather together the dispersed of Judah From the four corners of the earth.
“Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “I do not do this for your sake, O house of Israel, but for My holy name’s sake, which you have profaned among the nations wherever you went. And I will sanctify My great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst; and the nations shall know that I am the Lord,” says the Lord God, “when I am hallowed in you before their eyes. For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land.
Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God.
“Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “that it shall no more be said, ‘The Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,’ but, ‘The Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where He had driven them.’ For I will bring them back into their land which I gave to their fathers.
Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your descendants from the east, And gather you from the west; I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ And to the south, ‘Do not keep them back!’ Bring My sons from afar, And My daughters from the ends of the earth—
Year 1900 Jews from the middle east started returning home
Mid 1900s after WWII they came from Europe and us
1990 Russia collapsed and allowed the Jews to leave 400,000 arrive from Russia
weekend May 25 1991 Ethiopia 14500 airlifted to Israel “operation Solomon”
Ethiopian Jew converted by Phillip Acts 8
40 flights, 35 aircraft, 28 planes in the air at one time
747, a 350 passenger plane had 1088 people 2 babies born in the air
Look! I am bringing them from the land in the north, gathering them from the far ends of the earth; among them are the blind and lame, women with children, women in labor, all together, a vast throng returning here.
Complete Jewish bible
O seed of Abraham His servant, You children of Jacob, His chosen ones! He is the Lord our God; His judgments are in all the earth. He remembers His covenant forever, The word which He commanded, for a thousand generations, The covenant which He made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac, And confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel as an everlasting covenant, Saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan As the allotment of your inheritance,”
God’s covenant , He will keep
What He said, I will scatter, I will bring back
Jews around the world were depending on the promises of God to do what he said
And when the opportunity came, they returned
God put within their hearts to go back
knowing that they would find a desert, hardship, no income ,no home, leave every thing they had,
Other Fulfilled Promises
Other Fulfilled Promises
revitalizing the land
The wilderness and the wasteland shall be glad for them, And the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose; 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.
Fear not, O land; Be glad and rejoice, For the Lord has done marvelous things! Do not be afraid, you beasts of the field; For the open pastures are springing up, And the tree bears its fruit; The fig tree and the vine yield their strength. Be glad then, you children of Zion, And rejoice in the Lord your God; For He has given you the former rain faithfully, And He will cause the rain to come down for you— The former rain, And the latter rain in the first month. The threshing floors shall be full of wheat, And the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil.
all of these prophecies have been fulfilled exactly like God said they would
and there are some yet to be fulfilled
Israel Today
Israel Today
world conflict
The world hates Israel
all of the world problems are eventually blamed on Israel
most of the world wants to see Israel wiped off the face of the map
The burden of the word of the Lord against Israel. Thus says the Lord, who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him: “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it.
It shall be in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
Then the Lord will go forth And fight against those nations, As He fights in the day of battle.
Ezekiel 38 Russia, turkey, Iran in partnership against Israel
Isaiah 17 Psalm 83 all of the rest of Israel neighbors
July 1st annexation of Samaria and Galilee
1967 war with Jordan Israel conquered the land, but still it was not officially theirs
no mans land, Israeli military kept the peace
now they are going to officially occupy
Europe says no, turkey ,Jordan, UN, all say no
Israel should not be in existence
God said don’t mess with Israel
Today Israel is the 11th most powerful military in the world
all of these country s are going to try to knock off Israel and fail.
The rebuilt temple
The antichrist goes into the temple
Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
What temple?
the one to be rebuilt
The third temple, that temple is ready to be rebuilt
the Jewish people are looking for their Messiah
having rejected Jesus
their belief is that the temple will usher in their messiah
this temple will be built, I believe after the rapture of the Church
Levite children are being taught to do temple duties
priests are put into a database to have their turn coming and doing the temple sacrifices and other duties
all of the temple furniture is ready to be put into service
the ark of the covenant. they are sure of where it is under the temple mount
when time they will dig it up and place it in the Holy of Holies
The Future of Israel
The Future of Israel
Tribulation
then
Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts; Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet home, A tabernacle that will not be taken down; Not one of its stakes will ever be removed, Nor will any of its cords be broken. But there the majestic Lord will be for us A place of broad rivers and streams, In which no galley with oars will sail, Nor majestic ships pass by (For the Lord is our Judge, The Lord is our Lawgiver, The Lord is our King; He will save us);
All of God’s prophecies up to this point have come true
there is no reason to think that they will not continue