Discovering Future World Events Through Scripture. Behold, I am coming quickly! Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book."Rev 2. Visit us on. Facebook: Judgment on Israel Isaiah 1. Joel 1: 1. 6- 1. 7 Amos 2: 4- 6. In that day his strong cities will be as a forsaken bough and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel; and there will be desolation. Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not been mindful of the Rock of your stronghold, therefore you will plant pleasant plants and set out foreign seedlings; but the harvest will be a heap of ruins in the day of grief and desperate sorrow. ![]() ![]() JEANETTE FINDLAY September 2017 IT HAS been more than two years since the first open meeting of the Irish community in Glasgow was called to discuss building a. Working with headphones on usually means you’d rather not be bothered, but sometimes it means you’re just listening to something while you work. If you want to be. Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God? The seed shrivels under the clods, storehouses are in shambles; barns are broken down, for the grain has withered. Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept His commandments. Their lies lead them astray, lies which their fathers followed. But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem." Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment.."These passages show that Israel will greatly suffer in the "Great Middle East War" along with their neighbors. As discussed at the beginning of this study, the prophecies in the first few chapters of Amos found fulfillment in the Assyrian conquest. ![]() Parallel wording in other passages suggest the first few chapters of Amos have a dual fulfillment in the "Great Middle East War."The passage in Amos shows that punishment is coming because Israel has "despised the Law." Interestingly, Daniel speaks of a future punishment on Israel for transgressing the Law: Daniel 9: 1. Yes, all Israel has transgressed Your law, and has departed so as not to obey Your voice; therefore the curse and the oath written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against Him.
And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great disaster; for under the whole heaven such has never been done as what has been done to Jerusalem. As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us; yet we have not made our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth. Therefore the LORD has kept the disaster in mind, and brought it upon us; for the LORD our God is righteous in all the works which He does, though we have not obeyed His voice. Daniel 9: 2. 0- 2. Now while I was speaking, praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God, yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, reached me about the time of the evening offering. And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, "O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you skill to understand. At the beginning of your supplications the command went out, and I have come to tell you, for you are greatly beloved; therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision: "Seventy weeks are determined For your people and for your holy city, To finish the transgression, To make an end of sins, To make reconciliation for iniquity, To bring in everlasting righteousness, To seal up vision and prophecy, And to anoint the Most Holy.". God said He would punish Israel under the yoke of Gentile rule for "7. Law. 4. 83 of those years had passed when Jesus died on the cross. The 4. 90- year time- clock stopped when the Messiah was "cut off," as prophesied by Daniel. The last seven years left on the clock will start when Israel confirms a covenant brokered by the antichrist. I cover this prophecy in Daniel in more detail in the "Olivet Discourse."As history has shown, most peace covenants come in the aftermath of war or significant conflict. Because the scriptures are clear that God will mete out judgment on both Israel and their neighbors, it is possible that the "Great Middle East War" is the event that leads to the ushering in of that last period of punishment for transgressing of the Law. So while the war will punish Israel like at the time of the Assyrian conquest millennia ago, the "Great Middle East War" could be the event that directly leads to Daniel's 7. Law. In other words, the "Great Middle East War" is not part of "Daniel's 7. Daniel 9: 2. 7, restarting the 4. There are more allegories to the harvest in the passages of Isaiah 1. Joel 1 above, which describe massive destruction in the war. As discussed in "The Olivet Discourse," Israel could be represented as follows: the fig tree (nation), the vine (spiritual), and the olive tree (salvation). Israel became a nation in 1. Ezekiel 3. 7 shows us that Israel as a nation is spiritually dead. Therefore, corporate Israel is not saved, nor do they have the Holy Spirit. To be clear, personal salvation only comes through accepting Jesus as Messiah, whether Jew or Gentile, as Jesus fulfilled the Law and nailed it to the cross: John 1. Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."Colossians 2: 1. In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. The Jews, as a nation, have rejected their Messiah. However, when they corporately accept Jesus as Messiah at the end of the Tribulation, as described in the passages below, they will all be saved and receive the Holy Spirit: Zechariah 1. And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn."Romans 1. I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, and in this way all Israel will be saved. As it is written: "The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob. And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins."All of Israel being saved will fulfill the prophecy of the "dry bones," when they become spiritually alive by the Holy Spirit breathing into them in Ezekiel 3. As we will see in the next few sections, the "Great Middle East War" is likely the event that initiates the spiritual awakening of Israel. Joel 1: 1. Zephaniah 2: 1. Gird yourselves and lament, you priests; wail, you who minister before the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, you who minister to my God; for the grain offering and the drink offering are withheld from the house of your God. Consecrate a fast, call a sacred assembly; gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD. Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, O undesirable nation. Israel as a nation will spiritually come together before the Lord during the "Great Middle East War." Restoration of Israel as one nation, like before the days the kingdom was split into Judah and Ephraim, will lead to a complete physical re- gathering of the people: Ezekiel 3. Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying, "As for you, son of man, take a stick for yourself and write on it: 'For Judah and for the children of Israel, his companions.' Then take another stick and write on it, 'For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel, his companions.' Then join them one to another for yourself into one stick, and they will become one in your hand."Ezekiel 3.
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