I’m commemorating the October 7th massacre of 1200 innocent civilians in Israel by posting my own Bible reference page regarding the history and future of the nation of Israel. This reference needs to be updated and I will be working on that. As you will see, I’m a firm believer that what is taking place in our world and in our time is preparation for the return of Jesus Christ and the judgment of the nations. YOU can be ready by believing the gospel of Jesus Christ (I defined it in a recent post), by not sticking your head in the sand of false rapture teaching, by reading your Bible and praying for mercy for you and your own.
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Why Israel? Why should a tiny nation with so much hostility towards it be the center of Biblical attention? The answer is that God chose Abraham’s descendants, through Jacob, to provide the human half of the genealogical line to the Messiah. He also chose the land as His own and put the two together. Try to steal the land and you are trying to fight the Creator of all things-good luck with that. If He had chosen Brazil we would be asking “Why Brazil”? and if He chose Poland we’d be asking “Why Poland? God’s plan is solid, specific and tangible, and nothing you or I or anyone else tries to do is going to stop it. Best submit and be on God’s side.
God through Biblical Scripture stated hundreds and thousands of years ago:
THE LAND OF CANAAN WAS PROMISED TO ABRAHAM’S DESCENDANTS…
Genesis 13: 14 – 17
Genesis 17: 8
…THROUGH THE LINEAGE OF ISAAC, NOT ISHMAEL:
Genesis 17: 18 – 21
THE PROMISE IS IRREVOCABLE – IT CANNOT BE CANCELLED:
Jeremiah 31: 35 -37
Romans 11:25– 32
Isaiah 49: 14 – 18
EXILE FROM THE LAND WAS A PART OF GOD’S JUDGEMENT ON ISRAEL’S REBELLION:
Deuteronomy 28, especially v.63 – 65
THE FIRST COMPLETE EXILE WAS TO BABYLON:
Daniel 1: 1 – 2
Ezra 5: 11 – 16
THE SECOND WAS TO ALL NATIONS:
Ezekiel 36: 16 – 19
Ezekiel 36: 3
Matthew 23: 33 – 39
GOD SAID THE SECOND EXILE WAS TO BE THE LAST:
Isaiah 11:10– 16
Ezekiel 37: 21 – 25
JEWS WOULD BE MIRACULOUSLY REGATHERED TO THEIR LAND BEFORE THE LAST DAYS:
Ezekiel 38: 8 – 9
Ezekiel 39 21 – 29
Zephaniah 2: 1 – 3
Joel 3:1-3
THE WASTE-LAND WOULD BECOME FERTILE AND DENSELY POPULATED:
Ezekiel 36: 8 – 12
Ezekiel 36: 30 – 38
ISRAEL’S ENEMIES WOULD CLAIM THAT THE LAND WAS THEIRS:
Ezekiel 36: 1 – 7
Ezekiel 35
ISRAEL WOULD NOT REPENT OF THEIR REBELLION UNTIL THE RETURN OF JESUS:
Ezekiel 36: 22, 23, 31, 32
Ezekiel 39: 21 – 29
Romans 11:25– 27
JERUSALEM WOULD BE A SOURCE OF ANGER AND TURMOIL FOR THE NATIONS:
Zechariah 12: 1 – 10, especially 2, 3
Zechariah 14: 1 – 19, especially 2, 3
Matthew 24: 14 – 22
Revelation 16: 1 – 2
THE SO-CALLED ‘OCCUPIED WEST BANK’ IS ‘JUDAH’ IN PROPHECY:
Zechariah 12, verses 2, 6 and 7.
Zechariah 14:14
Joel 3:1
Matthew 24:15-22
JERUSALEM AND JUDAH WOULD BE THE DISPUTED TERRITORIES
Zechariah 12: 2-3
ISRAEL WILL BE ATTACKED BY THE WORLD COMMUNITY AND JERUSALEM WILL BE DIVIDED FORCEFULLY:
Zechariah 12:2, 3
Zechariah 14:2-9
THE ENEMIES OF ISRAEL TODAY WERE PROPHECIED 2500 YEARS AGO
All the nations around Israel: Ezekiel 36 – 39; Zechariah 12:2
Iran (called Persia until 20th C): Ezekiel 38
Turkey (then Gomer) Ezekiel 38
All nations of the world – see below
ALL NATIONS WILL BE ANGRY WITH THE BIBLICAL GOD AS WELL AS WITH ISRAEL:
Revelation 19 – 19
Psalm 2: 1 – 6
Revelation 11: 18
ALL NATIONS WILL ATTACK ISRAEL (PERHAPS TWO SEPARATE ATTACKS):
Joel 3, especially verses 1 – 2
Zechariah 12:3
Zechariah 14:2
Revelation 16: 14 – 16
Ezekiel 38: 1 – 9
THE ATTACKS WILL BE SOON AFTER ISRAEL’S REGATHERING TO THE LAND AND ONCE THEY HAVE PROSPERED AND GROWN IN POPULATION:
Ezekiel 38:7-9
Ezekiel 39:25-27
FIRST, THERE MAY BE A TEMPORARY ‘PEACE’ OR SECURITY PACT DECEIVING ISRAEL:
1 Thessalonians 5: 1 – 4
Daniel 8: 25 (esp. see the KJV)
Daniel 9: 27
Ezekiel 38: 14 – 16
THERE MAY BE A JEWISH TEMPLE OR WORSHIP CENTER BUILT AT ABOUT THIS TIME IN J, BUT MORE LIKELY, THE TEMPLE MOUNT ITSELF WILL BE USED AND ABUSED:
Revelation 11: 1 – 2
2 Thessalonians 2: 4 – 6
Matthew 24: 15
PEOPLE WILL BE LIVING ‘NORMALLY‘UNTIL THE MOST SIGNIFICANT TROUBLES BEGIN:
Matthew 24: 37 – 39
Ezekiel 39: 6
GOD WILL DEFEND ISRAEL:
Zechariah 14: 2 – 5 and verse 12
Zechariah 12: 9
Isaiah 34:1 – 10
Joel 3: 16
Ezekiel 38: 17 – 23
Matthew 24: 30
THIS WILL BE THE END OF HUMAN RULE OVER THE EARTH:
Revelation 19 and 20
Daniel 2: 42 – 45
Isaiah 34: 1 – 4
Zechariah 14: 9 and v 16 – 19
