Biblical Time line:
4004 BC God created Adam.
3874 BC Seth is born Adam is 130 years old at this time. We do not know when Cain and Able were born or how long Adam was in the garden. Cain and Abel were grown men when Cain slew Abel.
3769 Enosh is born. Seth was 105 years old Men began to call on God or better translated “proclaimed God.” Somewhere in this time period fallen angels left their first estate (heaven and the spiritual realm) and took on human bodies and married human wives and produced Nephilim. Gods. Men of renown. Genesis 6:4. They rebelled against man and God and became very violent. They reached a high point just before the flood. So they populated the earth for about 1500 years. Plenty of time to corrupt all the human population and DNA. Why didn’t God stop it? He did. It’s called the flood. God always allows sin to reach a certain level hoping man will repent before judgement. The last pre-flood patriarch Methuselah died just before the flood. So there were good and Godly people during the pre-flood era. God took them to heaven before the flood judgment. As He will the church before the last world judgment. Only corrupt unbelievers were left on the earth for the flood judgment. Noah and his family were taken up above the waters. A symbol of the rapture.
3217 BC Methuselah is born. When he dies it (the flood) shall come. He lived 969 years. When he died it ended the many pre-flood patriarchs who were righteous. When Methuselah died only Noah and his family were left among the righteous.
3017 Enoch Taken To heaven. 669 years before the flood. A symbol of the rapture.
2948 BC Noah is born. Noah knew the pre-flood patriarchs.
2500 BC—SPECIAL NOTE: Buddhism begins. Originated in India. 1st great false religion. Buddha means “enlightened.” Karma and reincarnation and the continuous cycle of life. The Swastika was adopted by the Nazi’s in 1920. Siddhartha Gautama was the founder and became known as the “Buddha” Or “enlightened one.”
2468 BC God says man has 120 years. Final call to repentance. There were still some righteous on the earth at this time.
2448 BC Noah is commanded to build the ark
2348 BC Flood– 1656 years from Adam to the flood. Millions on the earth at this time all seed but Noah’s seed are corrupted. Methuselah dies. All the pre-flood righteous patriarchs are dead except Noah.
2247 BC Tower of Babel—101 years after the flood and less than 50 thousand on the earth
1996 BC Abraham is Born—
1921 BC The Call of Abraham. He was 75 Years old. The land… ***The Abrahamic Covenant*** World population was less than 250 thousand. Zero Jews.
1896 BC—Isaac is born Abraham is one hundred years old.
1836 BC Jacob is born. Issac is 60 years old.
1745 Joseph is born. Jacob is 91 when Joseph is born
1728 BC Joseph taken captive to Egypt Joseph is 17 years old.
1706 BC Jacob arrives in Egypt Jacob was 130 years old. Joseph was 39 years old. 89 Jews in the world. 86 family members of Jacob plus Joseph and his two sons. Egypt is the first world power. The first of the seven heads of the Beast. Seven gentile world powers that will dominate Israel (1) Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome and the Revised Roman empire of the Beast.
1571 BC Moses is born in Egypt—Jews increase from 89 to three to four million in 135 years. No wonder Pharoah wanted all the Jewish males babies to die.
1500 BC??—SPECIAL NOTE: Hinduism began as a mixture of the Indo-Ayria culture around 2nd great false religion that has led to humanism and evolution and new age. Began in India and does not have a single founder or single starting point. It slowly grew over hundreds of years. Believes in many gods. Also believe in Karma and reincarnation. They have a sacred text called the “Vedas” written in 1500 BC. The difference between Hinduism and Buddhism is minimal. They differ on the soul, a creator God, and social structure.
Hinduism teaches that every person has an eternal soul. Buddhism teaches no soul and no permanent self. Hinduism believes in a supreme cosmic spirit and many gods and goddesses.
1491 BC ***The Mosaic Covenant.*** The Exodus from Egypt. The Law. When the law was given at Mount Sinai there was about 40 million world population and six million Jews. 430 years from the call of Abraham to arriving in the land of promise…Canaan.
1451 BC Jews Arrive in Canaan. Forty years of wilderness wandering ends.
1451-1426 BC Joshua clears the promised land of Rephaim. Israel occupies the land of Canaan
1426-1155 BC Judges rule Israel— 271 years of Judges
1155-1095 BC Eli and Samuel are the High Priests of Israel
1095 BC Saul The first of the kings—490 years of Kings
1055 BC David is King– ***The Davidic Covenant***
1015 BC Solomon is king
975 BC—Solomon dies. Kingdom divided into the ten northern tribes—Israel and the 2 Southern Tribes-Judah.
722 BC—Assyria captures the Northern Kingdom of Israel. Ten tribes. Those tribes were scattered throughout the Assyrian kingdoms. They never lost their Jewish identity, and many have returned to Israel as part of the great regathering in these last days. Ezekiel 37:21 I will gather them from all around and bring them into their land. The second of the seven heads of the Beast of Revelation. Seven Gentile world powers that will dominate Israel. Egypt, (2) Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome and the Revised Roman empire of the Beast.
Special note: Revelation chapters 12, 13 and 17 talk about the seven headed and ten horned beast. Daniel 7 talks about ten horns describing ten world influencers one of which the Anti-Christ will come from. Daniel 7 also says the fourth beast will have ten horns which are ten kings. From the ten will come one little horn who will subdue the rest.
The book of Daniel is centered on Israel’s seventy weeks of years which takes in the last four kingdoms only. Egypt and Assyria were world powers that dominated Israel before Babylon. When Babylon conquered Israel and took the Jews into captivity Daniel received the prophecy that his people Israel were given 490 years as punishment by God for failing to keep the sabbaths and rejecting God as their king. They spent 430 years in Egypt, and the Assyrians scattered the northern tribes all over the world in 722 BC.
The four types metal on the image of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream in Daniel chapter 2 are describing the last four kingdoms. The first metal is the images head of Gold—Babylon. The second metal has the breast and arms of silver—Medo-Persia. The third the belly and thighs were brass—Greece. And last metal is divided between the two legs. Rome is the fourth metal. The legs are iron, but one foot was Iron and the other clay. The two legs are the Roman Empire. The Roman empire was united from 27 BC to 476 BC. In 476 AD it divided and continues to have influence even to today. Constantinople to the East and Rome to the West. The feet is the Revised Roman empire of the last days. This is also the ten kings who will rule with the Beast. Some think the mix of iron and clay means that these Ten kings will be hybrid humans. They will be a mix of human and Nephilim.
In Daniel chapter 7 we see four beasts which shall arise out of the earth. Earth in the Bible prophecy usually means Israel. Beasts means that they will dominate and seek to control and reign over Israel, specifically Jerusalem. The first beast is a lion—Babylon. The second beast is a bear—Medo-Persia. The third beast is a Lepard—Greece which after Alexander the Great died was divided into four kingdoms. The fourth beast of Daniel chapter seven is coming up out of the sea. The sea usually represents the gentile world. The fourth beast is Rome. All of the modern-day western world today is based on Roman law and influence. This beast will be revised and revived in the last days. This fourth beast had ten horns which are ten kings—and a little horn speaking great things. It will devour the whole earth. No kingdom has ever done that until now. This is the anti-Christ. That is why he will be from the western world with western values but could be of any origin.
The Devil has always been tormenting Israel with diverse world powers who subvert and dominate them with the goal of destroying the Jews and the land of Israel. Satan will raise up another world power unlike any other who will seek to destroy Jews once again and once for all in the last days. Today the western world the modern Roman empire is turning against Israel more every day.
605 BC Babylon besieges Jerusalem and collects tribute 490 years of independence is ended. 1095 BC to 605 BC
The 3rd of the seven heads of the Beast. Seven gentile world powers that will dominate Israel. Egypt, Assyria, (3) Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome and the Revised Roman empire of the Beast. Babylon is the first of the Nations that God will use to judge Israel and occupy Jerusalem for failing to keep the sabbaths and rejecting God as their king. Daniel’s metal man and the four beasts of Daniel describe them.
597 First exiles to Babylon—Babylonian Empire under Nebuchadnezzar and his family rule from 626 to 539 BC
586 BC Last King Zedekiah Missed 70 sabbath years (every seven years) Babylon Captivity begins. The official 70 years began when the temple was destroyed in 586 BC and ended when it is rebuilt in 516 BC.
550 BC to 331 BC–Medo-Persia rules the world and Israel. The 4th of the seven heads of the Beast of Revelation. Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, (4) Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome and the Revised Roman empire of the Beast. Medo-Persia is the 2nd of the Nations that will control Israel for failing to keep the sabbaths and rejecting God as their king. Daniel’s metal man and the four beasts of Daniel describe them.
536 BC first group returns to Israel from Babylon, others return in 516 and 490 BC.
500 BC??—SPECIAL NOTE: Buddhism begins. Originated in India. 1st great false religion. Buddha means “enlightened.” Karma and reincarnation and the continuous cycle of life. The Swastika was adopted by the Nazi’s in 1920. Siddhartha Gautama was the founder and became known as the “Buddha” Or “enlightened one.”
Buddhism does not focus on a creator instead focuses on personal awakening. Hinduism uses the Caste system of Brahmins who are priests, Kshatriyas who are rulers and fighters, Vaishyas business owners, famers and traders, and Shudras manual labor workers, to divide society. Buddhism completely rejects social constructs and believe all people are equal. Hinduism aims for soul in union with the divine. Buddhism aims for Nirvana. The end of suffering and stepping outside the cycle and rebirth.
444 BC Ezra rebuilds the wall of Jerusalem This begins Daniels 70 weeks of years that are determined for thy people Israel. 490 years. These are prophetic years. A prophetic year is 360 days.
404 BC—SPECIAL NOTE: Confucianism becomes the official moral and political fabric of China during the Han dynasty. Confucious was born in 551 BC. His teachings deeply shapes the cultures of China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam until today. 2nd great false religion. It focuses on social harmony. Humaneness, piety and social order, personal conduct, family loyalty and good governance. They worship ancestors and believe they will unite with them in the afterlife. It is a way of life practiced by the Chinese going back to 1000 BC. It is not a religion as such. Confucious teachings are in a book called the “Analects.” It became widespread in 404 BC, 75 years after the death of Confucious in 479 BC.
336-323 BC Greece under Alexander the Great rules the world and Israel The 5th of the seven heads of the Beast of Revelation. Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, (5) Greece, Rome and the Revised Roman empire of the Beast. Greece is the third Nation that will control Israel for failing to keep the sabbaths and rejecting God as their king. Daniel’s metal man and the four beasts of Daniel describe them.
323-27 BC The Ptolemies and Seleucids ruled as prophesied in Daniel. Four generals split up Alexanders kingdoms. Ptolemy of Egypt, Seleucid of the Persia, Pergamum in Asia Minor, Antigonid in Macedon and Greece. They are all part of the Grecian Empire
27 BC to 476 AD Rome rules the world and Israel. The 6th of the seven heads of the Beast of Revelation. Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, (6) Rome and the Revised Roman empire of the Beast. Rome is the fourth of the four Nations that will occupy Israel and Jerusalem for failing to keep the sabbaths and rejecting God as their king. Daniel’s metal man in Daniel 2 and the four beasts of Daniel 7 describe them. Rome is divided into two legs. The legs are iron, but one foot was Iron and the other clay. The two legs are the Roman Empire. The Roman empire was united from 27 BC to 476 BC. In 476 AD it divided into Constantinople to the East and Rome to the West. Roman influence continues and is seen in the Western world even to today. The two feet represents the Revised Roman empire of the Beast. The ten toes are the ten kings who will rule with the Beast. Some think the mix of iron and clay means that these ten kings will be a mix of human and Nephilim.
4-6 BC Jesus Born
30-33 AD Jesus crucified and resurrected. This fulfills Daniels prophecy of 69 weeks of the 70 weeks of years determined for thy people. (Israel). One week left—seven years. Jesus is the First Fruit of the First Resurrection. Four more resurrections are coming at different times. Three are part of the First Resurrection. The last resurrection is called the Second Death for all unbelievers of all time.
30-33 AD Pentecost **The New Covenant** the Church is born—the Age of Grace
33 AD to 20?? AD The Church Age. The seven Dispensations.
4004 BC
70 AD –Roman Geneal Titus invaded Jerusalem and destroyed the temple and scattered the Jews all over the world.
313 AD—SPECIAL NOTE: Constantine issues Edic proclaiming Christianity throughout the Roman empire. Catholic Church founded. 2nd great false religion. The East has
615 AD—SPECIAL NOTE: Islam founded when Mohammed received his first revelations through the angel Gabriel. 2nd great false religion.
1717 AD—SPECIAL NOTE: Freemasonry’s First grand lodge in England. In 1066 AD—Freemasonry the world’s oldest secular and fraternal organization originated in England with the Normans. Albert Pike completely rewrote and restructured the rituals in a book called “Morals and Dogma of the Scottish Rite Freemasonry” in 1871. He was an avowed Satanist. That book is still considered the basis of all Freemasonry today.
1822 AD—SPECIAL NOTE: Joseph Smith receives a visit from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ telling him that where he is told all existing churches were wrong. The next year he gets a visit from the angel Moroni and is given the book of Mormon. 3rd great false religion based a great deal from the Masonic order as Joseph Smith was a Mason.
1848 AD—SPECIAL NOTE: The communist manifesto. Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels create a new definition of communism. The Red-Green axis is complete. Red—Communists and Catholics. Green—Islam. The unholy trinity working today to bring in the kingdom of the anti-Christ and eradicate true Christianity. The Anti-Christ will use them until they are no longer useful to him puts himself in charge of the world in the last 3 ½ years of the tribulation.
1881 AD—SPECIAL NOTE: Charles Taze Russell begins the Zion Watch Tower Tract Society. The Jehovah’s Witnesses name is adopted in 1931. 4th great false religion. Notice Satan begins all the religions and false teachings after the church is born and it has greatly increased in the last two centuries which are the last days. Even the Catholic church and Communism/socialism has continued to have great influence. And Islam has increased exponentially into the western world since Israel became a nation years.
1947 AD—SPECIAL NOTE: UFO crashes in New Mexico. This started the signs in the sky a demonic deception as Israel returns to their homeland. Also Bigfoot is seen in the forests around the world another incursion of the demonic as Satan ramps up all his deceptive forces around the world.
1948 AD– Jews return to their homeland after 1870 years. Ezekiel 36-37 The billboard of God’s proof that the Bible is the word of God! The greatest and most obvious Biblical prophecy fulfillment in the modern era that mostly goes unnoticed by a blinded secular world. We are now in the last of the last days. Dozens of Bible prophecies are fulfilled when Israel returned to their land.
20?? AD Rapture No one knows the day nor the hour. The church is in heaven for seven years. Some think the Judgment seat of Christ….the marriage of the Lamb and the marriage supper of the Lamb occur during this time. Revelation 19. Some believe the marriage supper occurs in the time after the return of Christ and just before the Millennial. The church is the second resurrection and part of the first.
20?? AD Tribulation– Peace treaty with Israel begins the seventieth week. Daniel 9:24-27 Time of Jacobs trouble Jeremiah 30:7. 144,000 Jewish virgin men of the twelve tribes are marked and sealed. Persecution of tribulation saints. We do not know how long between the rapture is and the beginning of the seventieth week. It probably will be just a matter of weeks or months.
20?? AD The Beast signs a peace treaty with Israel. Tribulation begins. Israel can now dwell safely without walls so they can complete their temple and begin their temple worship—The Beast wants all Jews in Israel so that later he can kill them all! Islam is not happy about the temple being rebuilt on the dome of the rock. Satan will see an opportunity to kill Jews with the anger of the Islamic world. The Gog-Magog invasion is coming up.
20?? AD Gog-Magog invasion of Israel. God draws these nations to Israel for a spoil. The Beast sees an opportunity here. Russia, Iran and Turkey invade Israel but are defeated on the mountains of Israel by God. Islam is virtually destroyed and the Jews can now occupy the temple mount and finish their temple and begin worship there. God is glorified and the Beast takes advantage of that and claims he is the Messiah. He allows temple worship to deceive Jews into coming to Israel. 144,000 Jewish evangelists preach the gospel of the kingdom to the whole world. Two witnesses do miracles as well as preach the gospel until the mid-point of the tribulation. An angel flies around preaching the gospel also. The Beast will kill those who accept Christ during the whole seven-year period but I believe most will die in the first half of the tribulation.
20?? AD Last 3 ½ years of the tribulation called the Great Tribulation— the mid-point of the tribulation. Trumpet and bowl judgments. The Mark of the beast. The False prophet is revealed. War in heaven. Michael and his angels kick Satan out of Heaven. The seventh of the seven heads of the Beast. Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome and (7) the Revised Roman empire of the Beast. The Revised Roman empire is the fourth of the Nations that will control Israel after Israel is in their land. Daniel’s metal man and the four beasts of Daniel describe them.
The ten kings are not happy with the Beast. Someone will assassinate the Beast, but he will have a resurrection out of the pit as he is healed of his deadly wound. He will stop all temple sacrifices and worship. He will now claim to be God in the temple. He is filled with Satan at this time. Satan now knows his time is short and must kill every Jew for it is his only hope to keep Jesus from fulfilling the Davidic Covenant.
Satan is called the Dragon during this time. The Beast moves his headquarters to Jerusalem. His image is worshipped. Revelation chapters 17-18 is an apparent parenthesis to tell what happens to mystery Babylon the great at the mid-point of the tribulation. In chapter 17 Religious Babylon is destroyed so that the beast can have no religions competition. In Chapter 18 Commercial Babylon is destroyed so that people must take his mark to buy or sell. An angel is warning people all over the world to NOT take the mark. Angels help the Jews flee Israel to Petra in Jordan, the rock fortress where God uses Angels to protect them.
20?? AD Armageddon–The Return of Christ after 2000 years of Grace (rapture seven years before that)
Note: Prophetic years are 360 days. The great Tribulation is 1260 days=3 ½ years. The Beast kills two thirds of Jews. Only one third survive. Christ returns with His army of saints most likely the church… on white horses. Jewish survivors will recognize Jesus as the one they have pierced and receive him as Savior. The beast and false prophet are cast into the lake of fire. Old Testament and tribulation saints are the third resurrection and part of the First.
20?? AD The Millennium. The dragon, Satan is locked up in the bottomless pit for one thousand years. Jewish survivors will enter into the millennium alive along with gentile survivors. The gentiles are the Sheep of Matthew 25. The Church and all resurrected OT saints will rule and reign with Christ for one thousand years on a reconstituted earth where peace dwells. Jesus Christ is on the throne in Jerusalem to rule over His people Israel.
30?? AD Millennial Kingdom—One thousand years ends… Satan is released after the end of the millennium for a short time. Evidently millions will gather with an army and rebel with Satan. But all are destroyed and sent to judgment. The Great white Throne of Judgment. All who are not written in the Lambs book of life from the beginning of creation will be cast into the lake of fire forever and ever. Millennial saints are the fourth resurrection and part of the First. All Christ rejectors are resurrected at this time. This is the fifth resurrection and the second death.
Time as we know it is no more. Time will continue as God will now use the 360-day year again. all months will be 30 days. Rhythm of life will be perfect. Seven thousand years of man is complete! New heaven and a new earth where only righteousness dwells.
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There are five bodily resurrections in the Bible…..
Acts 26:23 that the Messiah must suffer, and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, He would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles.
Colossians 1:18 He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He might come to have first place in everything.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. See Also 1 Corinthians 15:51-58 Only the church is the bride of Christ and will go to be with Him at the rapture. The fact is ALL believers at the time of the rapture are the church. The church was formed at Pentecost. So everyone saved from then to the rapture are the church! John the Baptist and all those saved before Pentecost are friends of the bridegroom. See special note below.
Revelation 20:4-5 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years……This is the first resurrection (of believers) The first resurrection refers to the resurrection of all believers, though separated in time.
Daniel 12:1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: (The tribulation) and at that time thy people shall be delivered,( tribulation saints) every one that shall be found written in the book. (they shall go alive into the millennium after the tribulation)
Daniel 12:2 And many of them (children of thy people– Israel) that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. Clearly this is at the end of the tribulation for thy people are delivered from a time of trouble like never before. The “everlasting contempt” are resurrected at the end of the Millennium according to Revelation 20:5 and 7-14 ……But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. The Unbelievers)
Special note: John the Baptist was a friend of the bridegroom. The OT saints and the Tribulation saints are friends of the bridegroom and invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb but not raptured. They must be there in their spiritual bodies at this wedding and marriage supper as they don’t get their new bodies, resurrection bodies until the end of the tribulation. John 3:28-29 Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him. 29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. The dead IN CHRIST will rise first. The OT saints are friends of the bridegroom and not married to the groom as the church is will not be resurrected until the end of the tribulation. Also, remember Jesus is going to have the Judgment seat of Christ after the rapture. Friends of the bridegroom did not have opportunity to follow Christ therefore are not at the judgment seat of Christ.
Hosea 2:19-20 says that Israel is God’s betrothed. And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. 20I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD. But of course this is pointing to a time when all things are settled in heaven. Israel is described as many things to God and God will bring to fulfillment all of these descriptions of them when His kingdom is established. Betrothed means “promised to.” It is a marriage contract. God has made promises to Israel that He will fulfill. Israel is God’s promised land the people are promised to Him. Fulfilled in the church age when they Jews and Gentiles would be the bride of Christ at the wedding in Heaven and the marriage supper and in the kingdom and into eternity.
Another thing to consider about the wedding…..This wedding and supper occurs in Revelation chapter 18 before Christ comes with His bride to destroy the Beast in Revelation 19. After the supper He comes to the earth with to destroy the Anti-Christ and set up His kingdom. So if the wedding and feast comes in heaven during the last part of the tribulation and after the rapture and the Judgment seat of Christ. So Israel while they may be described as being promised to God is not the bride of Christ.
Revelation 20:5 ……But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. (The Unbelievers)
Revelation 20:7-14 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
There may be another resurrection at the end of the Millennium, one which is implied, but never explicitly stated in Scripture. It is possible that some believers will die a physical death during the Millennium. The prophet Isaiah said, “No longer will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not live out his days; for the youth will die at the age of one hundred and the one who does not reach the age of one hundred will be thought accursed” (Isaiah 65:20). On the other hand, it is also possible that death in the Millennium will only come to the disobedient. In either event, some kind of transformation will be required to fit believers in their natural bodies in the Millennium for pristine existence throughout eternity. Each believer will need to have a “resurrected” type of body. Some experts believe that NO believers will die during the millennium. For it calls one ACCURSED who die during the Millenium.
But what will happen to those believers who survived the Tribulation and entered the Millennium in their natural bodies? And what will happen to those who were born during the Millennium, trusted in Jesus, and continued to live in their natural bodies? Paul has made it clear that flesh and blood, which is mortal and able to decay, cannot inherit the kingdom of God. That eternal kingdom is inhabitable only by those with resurrected, glorified bodies that are no longer mortal and are not able to decay (1 Corinthians 15:35-49). Presumably, these believers will be given resurrection bodies without having to die. Precisely when this happens is not explained, but theologically, it must happen somewhere in the transition from the old earth and universe to the new earth and new heaven (2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:1-4).
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The Seven Essentials Of The Faith
Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Matthew 1:23, 23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. Luke 1:27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.
Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. Romans 5:8, But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. Ephesians 1:7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; 1 John 1:7-8 If we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Matthew 28:6, He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. Mark 16:6, And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him. 1 Cor 15:3-4 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: I Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to His abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
Ephesians 2:8-9 8For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. Titus 3:7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. John 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
John 17:17;Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. 2 Timothy 3:16; All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
2 Peter 1:20-21. 20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. 21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
Mark 10:18 Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one one, that is God. Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned. Romans 3:23 All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Romans 3:10 There is none righteous, no not one. Luke 16:23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. 24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. Rev 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
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Seven Important Beliefs Of Our Faith
Israel God’s Forever People
Israel…..God’s People Forever
Israel today. We love them…we don’t always love what they do…but they are part of our blessed Biblical family, and we always will look out for them. God said they are a “stiff necked people.” Our job is to love them and pray for them and support their right to the land. God will discipline His people. That’s not our job. After all…where would we be without the Jews?
The Bible came from the Jews. The ten commandments are Jewish. The prophets are all Jewish. The Apostles are all Jewish. Jesus Christ Himself was a Jew. Jerusalem is a special city with nothing outwardly special about it. Everyone knows it’s a holy place. The Bible says we are going to a New Jerusalem after we die in Christ. Seems to me if God was through with the Jews then we would be going to a heavenly New York or Paris…but no it’s Jerusalem.
First let me say that Christian Nationalism (the belief that the church will prepare the world for Chrit’s return) sounds great but often leads to replacement theology. They think that the church has replaced Israel and the covenants of God are for the church now. They think because the murderous Jews killed Jesus Christ that God is done with them. But it was the Romans who actually killed Jesus. The Jews consented to it. But it was all of us who killed and rejected Jesus Christ.
No people group in the history of the world has suffered more persecution than the Jewish people. No people group has more Nobel prizes than the Jewish people. Surely the world can see the hand of God upon these people. No people group was the object of more blatant attempt at extermination ………to the extent of the Jewish people in World War 2.
But instead of world support for these harangued people…..the world today thinks the Jews are out to run and control everything and there’s a Jew behind every bush. There is an abnormal hatred for Jewish people. There are 12 to 14 million Jews in the world today. Six million or so live in Israel. That’s 0.01 percent of the world’s population. There are more people living in Pheonix Arizona than there are Jews in Israel. They are surrounded by billions of Muslims and still they survive in a land no bigger than New Jersey. Think about that.
Many people today claim that God has replaced the Jews. It is called “Replacement Theology” or “Fulfillment Theology.” God has replaced Israel. The New Testament has replaced the Old and Christians have replaced the Jews. The Bible does NOT support this. We will see what the Bible has to say about Israel. But first……
The secular view of Israel Today
Before we look at the Biblical facts about the land……Let’s look at what secular people are saying today about Israel. Secular people say you can’t use the Bible to push a political agenda about Israel. Then let’s use secular arguments to totally disprove what they claim. That there is no historical basis for the Jewish right to the land and that the land of Israel never belonged the Jews.
They say, “show me Israel was in the land without the Bible.” Historically there is proof that the land was occupied by Jews for around two thousand years. Ever heard of Abraham? Every heard of Jesus Christ? Ever heard of King David? Solomon? Ever heard of Moses? Historical figures.
Who was in the land during the time of Christ? Jews. Who was in the land at the time of King David? Jews. Where was Moses leading His people to….the land of Israel. Historical facts.
Ever heard of the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Medes and the Persians and the Greeks? They all met and fought Jews in the land of Israel. The Assyrians and the Babylonians even dispersed Jews from the land of Israel. In 722 BC the northern tribes of Israel were overcome by the Assyrians and in 586 BC the Babylonians took most of the Jews captive to Babylon. Historical facts.
But….. despite all this the Jews remained a distinct people group. They even came back to the land by legal decree by Persian King Cyrus around 515 BC and continued to return until 444 BC. The Jews were still in the land even when it was controlled by the Persians and the Greeks until the Romans took control in around 64 BC. Jews were in the land even while Syrians, and the Egyptians fought each other across the land of Israel until the Romans took Asia Minor in 188 BC and took control of Israel in 64 BC. The Jews were still in the land at the time of Christ and continued after Christ under Roman control until AD 70. Jews were still in the land until the diaspora of AD 70. Historical fact.
Lord Balfour believed that Jews in 1917 were Biblical Jews. Hitler Believed the Jews of 1933 were Biblical Jews. World leaders in 1948 believed the Jews were actual Jewish descendants. Hollywood was founded by real Jews who had to change their names to protect themselves from Jewish hatred. The Muslims today believe that Jews today are real Jews. Muslims don’t want the land of Israel…they just want dead Jews! Why is there antisemitism today if the Jews are not in fact Genetic Biblical Jews?
Secular people ask, “Show me where Israel has a right to the land.” I would say because they are in the land right now proves that. No nation has a right to any land unless they have set up government in that land. It’s your land until someone takes it from you. That’s how ALL nation states were formed and stay independent. Some smaller nations were given their land and no one fought them over it. it was by decree. But by far most valuable real estate has been coveted and taken from another. Even Israel took the land from the Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites and so on as God led them. That is the origin of most every nation state in the past and today.
That’s the law of nation states. Incidentally that why the Bible says there will be no more wars in the New Heaven and the New Earth. All wars are fought over land. All of them….
Israel is very unique. After World War 2 Jewish refugees were placed back in Israel by the nations of the world because……. the world felt guilty over the holocaust. So they wanted to put the remaining displaced European Jews somewhere. But no nation wanted them. And the plain fact is that no one wanted the barren vacant land of Israel in 1948.
Did you know that the British government gained the land of Israel from the Turks in the 1917 Balfour agreement? The British didn’t want Israel either, but amazingly Lord Balfour felt that the land legally belonged to the Jewish people. Another proof that the land belonged to Israel in the past.
So the Balfour agreement was created to establish in Israel a national home for the Jewish people. British government was operating there until May 14th, 1948. Israel was given the land by agreement of the nations of the world after the war. And on May 14th, 1948, they were declared an independent state. They were immediately officially recognized as a nation state by the United States and soon after the majority of the world.
Israel is not unique to this. There are a few nations today that exist on land that was given to them by decree. The nations of the world agreed to Jews living in Israel. The plain fact is….. historically it was well known by the people of that time that Israel was the land of the Jews. Remember that no one wanted that land in the early 20th century. It had no natural resources, no oil, no gas, no trees, no rivers. A wasteland. Now today everyone wants that land. Only because it’s a political pawn that nations use to push an anti-Jewish agenda.
Israel after being recognized as a nation in 1948 then had to fight three wars to keep it. 1948, 1967 and 1973. And even recently a fourth war in 2023 through 2025 to keep that land. The land is doubly theirs by world decree and war. It is theirs until someone takes it from them.
Even secularists have to see that Israel is like no other nation in the world. No other nation state has ever defended their land rights in war after war and still others claim it is stolen land and continue to place other people groups among them. Most every nation in the world is living on land won from war. Is that stealing? Wars are for necessity. Wars are fought for peace and safety, for survival, economics, and security.
But stealing? God led the Hebrews to take the land that He was giving to them. Did America steal the land from the native Americans? For two thousand years no one bothered native Americans. They did fight constant wars with each other for centuries. So naturally when Europeans came over they eventually overwhelmed the native Americans who had no centralized government. No moral laws of the land to unite them. No organized modern cities. No organized military with modern weapons. No navy. No fortified buildings. Not even a single wagon. They were doomed to lose to the Europeans. Their two thousand years in America was finished. It was just a matter of time.
Many claim that we should give America back to the Native Americans. The world claims Israel is Palestinian land. Down though history if you want a land…… win it in a war and it’s yours. Pretty simple. But know that you might lose that war and face devastation consequences. Satan knows the Palestinians can’t win a war with Israel. So instead of giving up, the powers that be urge the Palestinians force the issue with terrorism and political pressure. To repeat….. every nation state in the world gained their land by war and it’s their land until someone takes it from them. Except…..one country…Israel! The world has decided that they will not let Israel be at peace with the land they conquered!
So to answer critics that we use just the Bible to prove the land belongs to the Jews….even without the Bible you can prove the land belongs to the Jews. Because of past history for sure….. but the main reason that no one can dispute…..they possess the land now! Possession is nine tenths of the law. That is the secular view.
Replacement Theology
Hermeneutics–the science of Biblical interpretation…the path of Biblical interpretation. These three Biblical interpretations lead to the false replacement theology belief.
Bottom line….Trust the Bible for what it says and don’t assume what it you think it says. Trust the clear meaning and you will understand the vague meanings much better.
Replacement theology believes that the Jews crucified Jesus and therefore God is done with them. After the Church was born no longer did God have a purpose for the Jews. Martin Luther was a Jew hater. John Calvin was a Jew hater. If you believe in dispensationalism. The fact that God works His purposes in different emphasizes with mankind throughout history and a direct strict and separate future for Israel and the church……you are hated by the replacement theology crowd.
Historical Dispensational Eras
Innocence–the creation of man
Conscience—the fall of man
Human Government—Civilization of Man
Promise—The Jewish man chosen by God
Law—The expectations of Man
Grace—Salvation of Man through one Man
Millennium—The kingdom of God For Man
Eternity—All Redeemed Man
Replacement Theology leaves out the Abrahamic, Mosaic, Davidic promises and the millennium in some cases goes straight to eternity. They believe the Davidic promise of a coming kingdom is for the church. And of course they don’t believe in the rapture, and they believe that the church will go through the tribulation and even some believe the tribulation has already taken place. They are waiting for the return of Jesus, and that they must get the world ready for His return.
In the Biblical view, the dispensational view…to put it simply….Israel is the chosen, physical, and earthly people of God, and the church is the saved, spiritual, and heavenly people of God. Since Jesus resurrection both Jews and the church are on earth at the same time. Right now the church during this time of God’s Grace is His focus. But one day the church will be removed, and God will turn His attention to the Kingdom when Jesus will be King over Israel. Eventually Israel and the church will be in heaven together forever!
The Biblical View Of The Land Of Israel
We believe the Bible is the final word about Israel. Forget all the secular arguments. Our final authority as a Christian is the word of God. Whatever the Bible says about Israel is what we should believe. If we don’t believe what the Bible says about Israel, then why would we believe anything else in the Bible? If we have a problem with the Bible and God’s promise to Israel we have a problem with God. Let’s see what the Bible says about Israel.
First of all 201 times in the KJV God says He is the “God of Israel.” Twice in the NT Matthew 15:31 and Luke 16:8. That has not changed and never will change.
Jesus is the vine (the Source) and Israel is the branch and the church is grafted in to the branch. The church is NOT the branch but grafted in to the branch. Israel is the branch. They first received the oracles and commandments of God. Romans 11:17-27.
Israel is now in unbelief. But they will come to know the Lord and serve Him for one thousand years.
Abrahamic Covenant- the land. Genesis 12:1-3 Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Genesis 12:6-7 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. 7 And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him.
Genesis 13:15-17 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. 16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. 17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.
Genesis 15:18 In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
Genesis 17: 7-8And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. 8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
Genesis 26: 2-4 And the Lord appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: 3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father; 4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.
Genesis 28:1-4 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. 2 Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughers of Laban thy mother’s brother. 3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people; 4 And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
Genesis 28:13-15 And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; 14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 15 And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
Genesis 35:9-12 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him. 10 And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel. 11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; 12 And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
Genesis 48:3-4 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, 4 And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
Mosaic Covenant- The Law.
The ten commandments Deuteronomy 10:4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the Lord spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the Lord gave them unto me. Exodus 20:2-17 and Deuteronomy 5:7-21 and more specific laws in the book of Deuteronomy, Leviticus and Numbers relating to God’s people being separate from the world.
Davidic Covenant—The Kingdom.
2 Samuel 7:8-13 Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel: 9 And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth. 10 Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime, 11 And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the Lord telleth thee that he will make thee an house. 12 And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.
1 Chronicles 17:2-12 Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God is with thee. 3 And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying, 4 Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the Lord, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in: 5 For I have not dwelt in an house since the day that I brought up Israel unto this day; but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another. 6 Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars? 7 Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:
8 And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth. 9 Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning, 10 And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies. Furthermore I tell thee that the Lord will build thee an house. 11 And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom. 12 He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever.
2 Samuel 7:12-16 And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever. I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: 15 But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee. 16 And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.
Psalm 89:3-4 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
4 Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.
New Covenant—All flesh can know God through faith in Jesus Christ.
Jeremiah 31:31-33 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord: 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Hebrews 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
Blessings and Cursing
Genesis 12:1-3 Blessing and cursings. 1 Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
People are saying today that the promise was made to Abraham alone and is referring to those who have faith in Christ in the future…..not his physical descendants. But Abram had not even exhibited that faith yet. Total misapplying the passage. God will make His seed a great nation and then God proceeds to bless Abram. In Numbers chapter 24 Balaam is given a parable about Israel and God’s blessing upon them. Balak the king of Moab wanted Balaam to curse Israel but God would not allow him to do that.
Numbers 24:1-2 And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness. 2And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon him. 3And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said: Verses 6-9 tell of God’s blessings on Israel. 6 As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river’s side, as the trees of lign aloes which the Lord hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters. 7 He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted. 8 God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows. 9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.
Balaam who was hired by Balak the king of Moab was supposed to curse Israel. But He concludes the parable given to him by God with this statement…..Numbers 24:9 ……………Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee. The “thee” is Israel.
Genesis 13:15-17 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. 16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. 17Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.
Genesis 15:18 The boundaries of their eternal land In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
Genesis 16:60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
Genesis 17 Abrahamic Covenant covers his descendants. See also Exodus 32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.
Exodus 33:1 And the Lord said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it:
Genesis 17:7-8 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. 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.
Genesis 17:20 There would be twelve princes for Ishmael. And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. 21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year. God blessed Ishmael but His promises were to Isaac and His descendants.
Genesis 22:17-18 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; 18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. This happens just after Abram offers Isaac on the altar. The seed is Isaac and Jacob’s seed.
Genesis 28:13-15 God’s promise to Jacob. And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. 11And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. 12And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. 13And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; 14And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 15And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
Genesis 32:12 God’s promise to Jacob. 12And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
Genesis 32:27-28 God wrestled with Jacob and changed his name to Israel which means Prince with God or Persisted with God. Israel character to always persist and exist is in their name.
27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. 28And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Genesis 35:10-12 God reaffirms His promise to Jacob/Israel. And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel. 11And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
12And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
Genesis 46:3 God reaffirms His promise to Jacob just before he had to travel to Egypt. And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:
Exodus 4:22-23 Israel is described as God’s son. Practically the whole book of Exodus is about God keeping His promise to His people and bringing them into their land. 22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn: 23 And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn.
Exodus 5:23 Moses called the Israelites “thy People” meaning “God’s people” several times in Exodus. For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all.
Exodus 6:4 The land covenant repeated by God. And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers. And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant. 6Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments: 7And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. 8And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the LORD.
Exodus 12:12 and 24 The Passover will be a memorial forever and ever! Israel will be recognized as a separate people forever and ever! We will have this memorial during the Millennial reign of Christ also. 12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord. 13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. 14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
Exodus 12:24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.
Exodus 15:17-18 God has planted His people in their land. 17 Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established. 18The LORD shall reign for ever and ever.
Exodus 19:5-6 First mention of the word Covenant to refer to the Lords solemn arrangement with the Israelites at Mount Sinai. Israel is above all people on the earth. Not better just a different purpose. 5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: 6And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. By the way…. The 9th and 10th commandments show us that God intended for everyone to have their own “stuff” and property. Thou shalt not steal and thou shalt not covet. You can’t steal or covet someone else’s things if they don’t own land and property. Israel was the first nation to recognize private property ownership.
Exodus 20 The ten commandments given to God’s chosen people Israel. God wrote them on two tablets after Moses in anger broke the first stone. Exodus 34:1 1And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest. That’s one of many things that make them unique and important and even vital for God’s work of redemption in this world.
Exodus 21:1 Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them. The word translated here the judgments is one of several Hebrew words that describe the Law (the Torah). This word describes God’s response to a specific action, something like an umpire’s call. Laws that appear in this section are responses to specific cases among the Israelites. Often the people would present critical or difficult disputes to Moses (as they did in Exodus 18).
When Moses had to render a decision on an issue that he was not sure about, he would ask the Lord. The decisions that he gave became known as case law or casuistic law. Such laws differed from the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:1–17 and Deuteronomy 5:7-21), known as apodictic law. The Ten Commandments were general laws not based on specific cases. It is believed by some that among the nations of the ancient world, only Israel had both casuistic and apodictic law. Another reminder that God’s chosen or better God’s unique people were used to bring about God’s redemption of the world.
Exodus 31:16 The Sabbath is to be observed between God and His people Israel a perpetual (forever) Covenant. 16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
Deuteronomy 7:6-9 the Lord thy God hath chosen thee……. 6 For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. 7 The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: 8 But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations.
They are chosen people above ALL the people on the face of the earth. And promised them one thousand generations. If 70 years is a generation x one thousand equals 70,000 years!
Deuteronomy 14:2 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
Deuteronomy 26:19 And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.
A holy nation
Exodus 19:6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation
Deuteronomy 14:2 For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
Deuteronomy 26:19 And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the Lord thy God, as he hath spoken.
The Levites are God’s and the all the first born of God’s people are His
Numbers 3:12-13. And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine; 13 Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel.
Balaam predicts Israel’s Messiah and future greatness of Israel.
Numbers 24: I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth. 18And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly. 19Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.
Everlasting Priesthood
Numbers 25:13 And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.
Everlasting Covenant
Judges 2:1 And an angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.
2 Samuel 23:5 Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to
God’s wrath against those nations that tried to destroy Israel
Psalm 78:6-7 Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name. 7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.
Psalm 81:1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. The God of who? Jacob….Israel!
Psalm 83 The nations around Israel come against them and want them cast off the earth forever! And Israel be no more remembered forever! That’s the goal of the world today! 2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. 4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
Psalm 105:7-11 Children of Jacob are chosen and the promises to them are everlasting. O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen.7 He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth. 8 He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations. 9 Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac; 10 And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant. 11 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:
Psalms 121:4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. God gives no indication that He is ever through with Israel.
Psalm 122:6 If you Pray for Jesus to bring peace to Jerusalem and Israel you will prosper. This is praying for His kingdom to come in the last days. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
Psalm 125:1-2 They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever. As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
Psalm 130:8 And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
Psalm 131:3 Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and forever.
Psalm 132:13-14 the whole Psalm is about God’s provision for Jacob. Verse 13 For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation. 14 This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
Isaiah 11:11 through Isaiah 12:6 He will bring them back in the last of the last days.
Isaiah 11:11-12 And 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, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. 12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Isaiah 27:6 (Isaiah 27 talks about “in that day” three times. A day far into the future.) He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit. 27:6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
Isaiah 27:2 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
Isaiah 27:12-13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel. 13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
God will gather his people Israel at the end of the tribulation to Jerusalem.
Isaiah 43:5-7 Isaiah 43:5 Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; 6 I will say to the north, give up; and to the south, keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; 7 Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
Isaiah 46:13 ….And I will place salvation in Zion for Israel MY Glory!
Isaiah 51:11 All Redeemed will be in Zion. 51:11 Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
Isaiah 55:3 Everlasting Covenant 55:3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
Isaiah 65:9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there. During the millennium Jews and gentiles will be together. The seed is Jewish Israel. The Elect and servants are gentile believers.
Isaiah 65:18-19 Great future for Israel. 18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. 19And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
Isaiah 65:25 Nothing will be hurt or destroyed in God’s Holy Mountain. Israel. Indicating a future of peace and joy for the land of Israel and His people. 25The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD
Isaiah 66:22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain. Israel is forever! They will be a distinct people for all eternity.
Jeremiah 3:14 says that God is married to Israel. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: God doesn’t divorce His wife.
Jeremiah 30:7-11 Time of Jacobs Trouble and I will not make an end of thee. Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. A day of horror and distress is coming for Israel in the last days. How can they have a time of distress in the last days if Israel does not exist? 8 For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him: 9But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them. God is going to raise up a king on the throne of David. Jesus Christ.
Jeremiah 30:17-24 God will restore Israel in their land and destroy their enemies totally in the last days. 17 For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after. 18 Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have mercy on his dwelling places; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof. 19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small. 20 Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them. 21 And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the Lord. 22 And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. 23 Behold, the whirlwind of the Lord goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked. 24 The fierce anger of the Lord shall not return, until he hath done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it.
Everlasting Love For Israel
Jeremiah 31:1-3 At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. 2Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. 3The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
A Gathering of the scattered Israel
Jeremiah 31:10 Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock. Isaiah 43:5 Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; 6 I will say to the north, give up; and to the south, keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; 7 Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him. Seed is Jewish Israel.
God’s eternal land and eternal people….if the sun, moon and stars fall then God will not love Israel. If you can measure the heaven above and the depths of the earth God will cast aside Israel.
Jeremiah 31:35-37 Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The Lord of hosts is his name: 36 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever. 37 Thus saith the Lord; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 32:40 Everlasting Covenant 40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
Jeremiah 33:23-26 If day and night should cease, only then would God cast away the great multitude of the descendants of Jacob. Moreover the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying, 24 Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the Lord hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them. 25 Thus saith the Lord; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; 26 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.
Jeremiah 46:28 Israel will never have and end. Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.
Israel is central on the earth
Ezekiel 5:5 Thus saith the Lord God; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.
Ezekiel 11:16-20 God will scatter His people among the Heathen and will protect them while they are scattered and will bring them back to the land of Israel and one day they will have one heart and walk with God as a nation. Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.
17 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. 18 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence. 19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh: 20 That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
Ezekiel 12:15 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries. AD 70. Rome scattered the Jews all over the world.
Ezekiel 16:59-60 Everlasting Covenant…… even if Israel didn’t keep their covenant with God, God will keep His covenant with them. Uni-lateral covenant. Like a last will and testament. 59 For thus saith the Lord God; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant. 60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
Ezekiel 20:5 and 7 In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the LORD your God; Verse seven God says to Israel “I am the Lord YOUR God.”
Ezekiel 20:12 and 20. God gave Israel the sabbath as a sign of God’s covenantal relationship with Israel. God calls it a covenant sign between “Me and them and me and you.” Ezekiel 20:12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them. Ezekiel 20:20 nd hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the Lord your God.
Ezekiel 20:23 I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries; and 34 And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out. God scattered them among all the nations due to their failing to honor the Sabbaths. Which meant they failed to keep all of the other covenants also.
Ezekiel 20:33-38 God will rule over His people after He brings them out of from among Heatehn nations. As I live, saith the Lord God, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you: 34 And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out. 35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face. 36 Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord God. 37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant: 38 And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 20:40-44 Future regathering of Israel in their land. For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord God, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things. 41 I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen. 42 And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers. 43 And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed. 44 And ye shall know that I am the Lord when I have wrought with you for my name’s sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord God.
Ezekiel 22:15 Another verse about God scattering His people to other nations for the purpose to one day purify them. And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
Ezekiel 22:17-22 regathering for the judgment of the tribulation. And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 18 Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver. 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. 20 As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you. 21 Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst therof. 22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the Lord have poured out my fury upon you.
Ezekiel 36 The whole chapter is about their God who brought them back to their land.
Ezekiel 36:17-21 God’s people scattered over the world for their sins….. Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman. 18 Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it: 19 And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them. 20 And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the Lord, and are gone forth out of his land. 21 But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.
Ezekiel 36:22-23 But God will keep His promises to them for His names sake Therefore say unto the house of Israel, thus saith the Lord God; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name’s sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went. 23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, saith the Lord God, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. God must restore Israel for He has promised them restoration. His name is at stake as the promise keeping God because only He is able to keep His all of His promises.
Ezekiel 36:24-38 God regathers Israel to their land and gives the land Beauty, fertility and productivity in the land of the future millennial kingdom. 24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. 25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. 26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. 28 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. 29 I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you. 30 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen. 31 Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. 32 Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord God, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel. 33 Thus saith the Lord God; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded. 34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by. 35 And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited. 36 Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the Lord build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the Lord have spoken it, and I will do it. 37 Thus saith the Lord God; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock. 38 As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 37:1-22 The dead land and the dead people of Israel will live again in the last days in that dead land as the people of God. The parable of the dry bones is about Israel coming back from the dead. They were not a nation but scattered among all nations from AD 70 to 1948. for 1870 years. 1. The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, 2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest. 4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. 5 Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: 6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord. 7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. 8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them. 9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. 10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. 11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts. 12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. 13 And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, 14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord. 15 The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, 16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and for all the house of Israel his companions: 17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand. 18 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these? 19 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand. 20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes. 21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
Ezekiel 37:22 Israel will be one nation and never divided again. 22And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.
Ezekiel 37:24-25 Fulfillment of the Davidic Covenant. David’s heir Jesus Christ will be king over them forever! 24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them. 25And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
Ezekiel 37:26 Everlasting Covenant with them…. who is them? Israel, Jewish people!!….. Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39 There has to be a nation state of Israel for those prophetic events to occur and for Russia, Iran, Turkey, Libya and Ethiopia to be gathered against it in the last days! In fact Ezekiel chapters 38-39 describe a Gog-Magog invasion of Israel that will bring Israel back to faith in God in order that they might rebuild the temple. Called the third temple.
Ezekiel 39:27 When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations. 28Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
Ezekiel chapters 40-46 describes a Jewish temple during the thousand year reign of Christ. So there must be an Israel!
Ezekiel chapters 47-48 describe the twelve tribes and the land division during the millennial reign of Christ. All this AFTER the regathering in Ezekiel 36-37 and the Gog-Magog invasion of chapters 38-39 so there is future for Jews in the land of Israel!
Daniel 2 the metal man represents all those Gentile nations that will dominate Israel from this point on……That God will use them to punish Israel for their failure to keep His ordinances. Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome. 483 years! 69 weeks of years. Daniel 9:24-27 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. 25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Daniel 7 the four beasts are Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome. There are Gentile nations that will dominate Israel from that point on until the death of Jesus Christ and the beginning of the church age. 69 weeks of years. 483 years! This prophecy does not include Egypt and Assyria Gentile nations that dominated the descendants of Jacob before the Babylonians. The final Revised Roman Empire to come in the last days is part of the fourth beast.
Daniel 8 the Anti-Christ will seek to eliminate the Jews in the last days! So obviously there must be real Jews living in Israel during this time!
Daniel 9:24-27 Seventy weeks are determined for THY people Israel. Daniel describes Jesus as the Jewish messiah. And that’s what He still is. That has not changed. He must have Jews to rule over to be their Messiah! Daniel 9:24-27 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. 25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Daniel 12:1 Israel shall be delivered. Verse 1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, (What time? Daniel 11:40 ….And at the time of the end…..) the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. Thy people….Daniel’s people…Israel the Jews!
Daniel 12:11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. The daily sacrifices……only Jews do the sacrifices in the third temple. Real Jews during the end times! This is at the mid-point of the tribulation. Jews are alive and well. This is not the church! You can’t have the abomination of desolation without Jews!
Hosea 11:10-11 10 They shall walk after the Lord: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.11 They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith the Lord. In the coming judgment, God would tear Israel like a lion (5:14); in the future, God’s lionlike roar would summon His people to return from exile. In the past, the people of Israel had flown back and forth between the nations like a dove (7:11); in the future, the people would speed back to their homeland like a bird.
Practically the entire book of Hosea is a story of Gomer, his unfaithful wife who Hosea took back after her terrible sin of whoredoms. An example of how Israel who went “a whoring after other gods” but God never forsook her and brought her back to Himself. He made a uni-lateral covenant with them.
Joel 3 They divided MY land Israel and God does not like that at all! Verse 2. will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. If God is done with Israel why is He angry with the world for dividing it in the last days?
Joel 3:16 If God is through with Israel then why is He the hope of His people verse 16? ….The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. God will protect His people during the tribulation period.
Joel 3:20 But Judah shall dwell forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
If God is done with Israel why is this verse here? If God is done with Israel why does Matthew 24 talk about “this generation” that shall see the things come to pass will be the last generation? Jesus is talking to first century Jews about the last century Jews.
Amos 9:14-15 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. 15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.
Zechariah 2:8 For thus saith the Lord of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye. Chapter two is a basically a future prophecy about Jerusalem being inhabited with Jews and Israel being the apple of God’s eye and Israel being God’s people.
Zechariah 12 The whole world will hate Israel and gather together against them.
Zecharaiah 12 specifically talks about Jerusalem but the world is against Israel. Every nation will hate the Jews and turn their backs on them. Including America! 1 The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel, saith the Lord, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him. 2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. 3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. 4 In that day, saith the Lord, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness. 5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the Lord of hosts their God. 6 In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem. 7 The Lord also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah. 8 In that day shall the Lord defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them. 9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. 10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. 11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. 12 And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;13 The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart; 14 All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart. The last days will see great hatred of Jews and Israel and this continues into the tribulation after a “false peace” is confirmed. Then great tribulation comes upon Israel and the Jews but they will welcome the return of Jesus Christ and recognize Him as the true Savior and true Messiah of the Jews!
Zechariah 13:8-9 says that two thirds of people in Israel will die and one third will be brought into the Millennial kingdom. This is clearly referring to God’s people Israel. 8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. 9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
Zechariah 14:2-9 The tribulation is for Israel to come to know Jesus their Messiah. 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. 3 Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. 4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains;(PETRA?) for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee. 6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: 7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light. 8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. 9 And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.
Zephanniah is basically about the day of the Lord and Judgment upon the nations and Israel but ends on a high note for Israel! Zephanniah 3:14-20 1.Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.15 The Lord hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the Lord, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more. 16 In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and to Zion, Let not thine hands be slack. 17 The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing. 18 I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden. 19 Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame. 20 At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the Lord. Seems like God has a great plan for Jews and Israel!
Malachi 1:2 God loved Jacob over Esau. Jacob is Israel, the Jews! God loves His chosen selected for His own purposes…..people. I have loved you, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the Lord: yet I loved Jacob.
Malachi 2:4 God has a forever covenant with the tribe of Levi. And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.
Malachi 2:16 God is the God of Israel. One of 201 times God refers to Himself as the God of Israel! For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously. Better not deal treacherously with Israel you will pay for it!
Malachi 3:6 For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. God does not change. He does not change His mind. He cannot break His promises. His promises and covenants are forever!
Matthew 1 and Luke 3 Jesus Genealogy is Jewish (there are exceptions like Rahab the Harlot and Ruth) It traces back to David in both Mary’s and Joseph’s line. He is Jewish and He will be King! Jesus is Jewish! The Bible is a Jewish book! Jesus Genealogy is Jewish (there are exceptions like Rahab the Harlot and Ruth) It traces back to David in both Mary’s and Joseph’s line. He is Jewish and He will be King!
Matthew 1:1 The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. The Jewish Jesus!
John 4:22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. Jesus said that Salvation was of the Jews. God revealed His plan of salvation through the Jewish Savior to the Jewish apostles!
Matthew 10:6 and 15:24 Jesus was sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. His people Israel of course are His first goal. And He did reach His people. Salvation for the whole world came through the faith of the Jewish apostles!
Matthew 19:28 And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Israel must still be a separate people even in heaven!
Matthew 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem. Jesus weeps for His people. HIS people. Jesus ministry was in Israel, to the Jewish people. Of course the goal was to save the whole world. But God placed Him IN ISRAEL for the sole purpose of being their messiah. Which He still IS!!!
Matthew 24:15, When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand.) Jesus clearly teaches that Israel, and the temple in Jerusalem, will exist at the time of the Great Tribulation. How can this be if there is no Israel? This verse clearly tells us that a Jewish temple will be rebuilt. So it has to be used by true Jewish people and there will be sacrifices in the temple. Daniel 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. and Daniel 12:11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
Matthew 24:16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: Evidently Jewish people will be living in Judea (the west bank) and have to flee because of verse 15 so they will still be around at the time of the tribulation. You can’t have the abomination of Desolation without Jews!
Matthew 24-25 All written to the Jewish people specifically and the world generally. A future time is coming for Jewish Judgment to fulfill Daniel’s seventieth week. And Jews will have to flee Jerusalem in order to be safe.
Matthew 25:31-46 the people of the world (Gentiles) are going to be judged as sheep and goats. Basically how they treated God’s Jewish people and Israel during the tribulation. So there must be Jewish people still on the earth and still important to God!
Luke 21:24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. The gentiles have a limited time, and God will again turn His attention to Israel.
Luke 22:30 That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
John 1:45 Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. Philip called Him the Jewish Messiah and Philip called Him the King of Israel. Jesus is still is both king and Messiah to the Jewish people.
John 14:1-6 Describes a Jewish……. wedding. The Son goes to prepare a place for his bride. The father tells the son when He can go and get His bride for the wedding. The rapture is Christ taking His bride home for the wedding and wedding supper!
Acts 7:2-5 God gave the land to His people with a promise. 2 And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran, 3 And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee. 4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell. 5 And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
Acts 28:20 Paul was imprisoned and on his way to Rome because He knew that Israel’s hope was in Jesus Christ as their Savior and future king. For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
Romans 3:1-4 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. 3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? 4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged. The word of God was given to the Jews. Just because they did not all believe does not mean what they did was not of God. God is true and men are liars. His word is true no matter how many reject it. Do the Jews then have any advantage over the Gentiles? Or is there any value in being circumcised? In the first place, God trusted his message to the Jews. But what if some of them were not faithful? Does this mean that God will not be faithful? Certainly not! God must be true, even though all human beings are liars.
Romans 11:1 God is not done with Israel. God has not rejected HIS PEOPLE. That is the Jews. I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
Romans 11:11-12 11. I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
12Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness? Romans 11:11 and 12 are key verses. Israel’s unbelief is what they have always done. But that doesn’t mean that God is through with them. On the contrary it means that the fall of the Jews led to the salvation of the Gentiles and the fall of the Gentiles during the tribulation will lead to the salvation of the Jews!
Romans 11:15 says the same thing. The world is saved because they were in unbelief so they will be saved from death into life eternal. For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? Israel as a nation was born again in 1948 and they will be spiritually born again when their messiah returns.
Romans 11:17-20 The church is grated in to God’s family. The wild olive tree is Gentile Christians. The Olive tree refers to Israel. Grafted in means that the church is grafted in to the family of God. So we should not boast about that nor should Christians ever despise Jews. 17And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; 18Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. 19Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in. 20Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
Romans 11:22-23 If Gentiles continue in God’s goodness, they will not be cut off, and if Jews turn to God in faith, they can be grafted in again. This is not a reference to individual salvation but to God’s program for Jews and Gentiles. 22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. 23And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.
Romans 11:24 It is far more natural to expect Israel, the natural branches, to be grafted in, than to expect Gentiles, the wild branches, to be included. 24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree? God’s plan for His people Israel to be grafted back onto their own tree with the church and all being the family of God together. God began His salvation plan with Israel and it ends with ALL people being part of His family of faith.
Romans 11:25-27. If the church has replaced Israel, how can they be blind until the gentiles are saved? The mystery is that Israel has been temporarily and partially hardened, but God has not rejected them. The word mystery, so often used by Paul, does not mean something incomprehensible, but something that had been kept secret and now has been disclosed. 25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. 26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: 27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. God’s covenant promises to Israel are forever!
Romans 11:28 The Jews are enemies in that they reject the gospel. For fathers sake refers to the eternal promises God made to the patriarchs. As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes.
Romans 11:29 For the gifts and callings of God are without repentance. God will not undo His call of the Jews as His chosen people. God does not change His mind. He made promises to the patriarchs (v. 28) and He will fulfill them.
Romans 11:33 God cannot be explained with just human wisdom. Thank God His wisdom included the Gentiles inclusion into His plan of salvation. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
Romans 15 Pauls says to the gentile church that they are debtors to the Jewish people. In verse 27 Paul says it is our duty to pray and support the Jewish people.
Galatians 3:16-18 16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. 17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. 18 For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise. 19 Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
The coming of Christ and salvation by faith in Him does not annul the promises of God to Israel. God granted the promise as a gift and you cannot disannul that. You can’t be more plain than this passage. Law has been fulfilled, made of none effect because of Christ. But His promises are always in effect and never annulled.
Galatians 6:15-16 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. 16 And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God. The Judaizers wanted the Gentiles to convert to Judaism before they could be qualified for salvation. We are new creations in Christ being a Jew or Gentile makes no difference or preference. Israel of God is the believing Jewish believers within the church.
James 1:1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. James was writing to Jewish Christians spread all over the region.
Revelation 2:9 know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
Revelation 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. These verses talk about the Synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews and are not. They were either not really Jews, or they were Jews who rejected Jesus Christ. Most early Christians were Jews. Revelation has as one of its themes the LAMB of God! A Jewish concept of the sacrificial Lamb. Revelation is a Jewish book about the final judgment and redemption of Jews and all of mankind. Again the Church was begun with Jewish believers!
Revelation 7:3-8 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. 4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel. 5 Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand. 6 Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nephthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand. 7 Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand. 8 Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.
AND……..Revelation 14:3-5 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. 4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb.5 And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.…..the 144,000 are Jewish men! Let that sink in. This is during the tribulation. These Christ loving evangelists are JEWS!
There are five lists of tribes in the Bible:
1st List of Tribes—by birth and mother
The twelve tribes of Israel came from the twelve sons of Israel. “Israel” is the name that God gave Jacob (Genesis 32:28). This list is the same in Genesis 35:23-26; Exodus 1:1–4; 1 Chronicles 2:1–2).
2nd List Of Tribes—Promised land Division
(When the tribes inherited the Promised Land, Levi’s descendants did not receive a territory for themselves (Joshua 13:14). Instead, they became priests and had several cities scattered throughout all of Israel. Joseph’s tribe was divided in two—Jacob had adopted Joseph’s two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, essentially giving Joseph a double portion for his faithfulness in saving the family from famine (Genesis 47:11–12). This means the tribes who received territory in the Promised Land
3rd list Of Tribes Jacobs Blessings
Jacob blesses his twelve sons with a final blessing and charge to them and described the future for his sons. Genesis 49:1-28
4th List of Tribes
Ezekiel chapter 48—The Millennial kingdom division of land
5th List Of Tribes—144,000
The tribes are listed again in Revelation 7:5-8, but they are not the same tribes that were given land in Joshua. Manasseh is there, and Ephraim (under Joseph’s name). But instead of Dan, Levi is included. No explanation is given as to why. During the tribulation, when most of the world has abandoned God and is following the Antichrist, 144,000 Jews will be sealed by God. This number comprises 12,000 from each tribe.
Revelation chapters 12:1-6 Is the history of Israel and Satan’s war with Jews from their beginning until the tribulation where the Jews will have to flee to the wilderness for safety. Satan’s final defeat in in chapter 19.
Revelation 12:1-6 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman (Jews) clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: ( sun, moon and stars depict the glory which has been promised to the nation of Israel) ,(Twelve stars are the twelve tribes) 2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. 3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. 4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman (Israel in general, Mary in particular) which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child (Jesus)as soon as it was born. 5 And she (Israel in general and Mary in particular) brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: (Jesus destiny is to be King) and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. (Jesus death, resurrection and ascention) 6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, (Petra) where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. Satan from the beginning has tried to destroy God’s chosen people. He has used these seven Gentile world powers down through history to persecute and attempt to destroy them. But the woman (Israel) and the child and have always and will in the future receive protection from God.
Revelation 12, 13 and 17 Israel, the Jewish people to be dominated by seven Gentile nation’s that Satan has used to attempt to destroy Israel all leading up to the final revised or revived Roman empire. Seven heads…(1).Egypt, (2) Assyria, (3)Babylon, (4) Medo-Perisa, (5) Greece, (6) Rome and the (7) Revived or Revised Roman Empire of the Beast. The Beast with the seven heads represent these Gentile nations that will rule the Jews until Jesus comes. Satan’s goal has always been to destroy the Jews!
Revelation is about Jesus coming with His church to rule and reign over His people Israel! Revelation 21 through 22:6 is about the NEW JERUSALEM….not New York, London or Paris. A Jewish city!
Revelation 21:12 And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: Revelation 12:14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. This passage describes the names of the twelve tribes of Israel written on the gates of the wall of the New Jerusalem. And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: It’s foundations had the names of the twelve apostles.
If God is done with Israel why would there be gates named after the twelve tribes and foundations names after the apostles? All Jews by the way! Heaven will always have Jews and Gentiles both sharing the great salvation we have in Christ. But God will never let us forget our distinctions that made His great salvation possible. We don’t forget George Washington, James Madison and John Adams were all Virginians! We won’t forget the distinctions between Jews and Gentiles and forever rejoice in each part of God’s great work of Salvation!
The Millennial reign of Christ will include sacrifices in the Millennial temple of Jesus Christ.
Some say todays Jews are not true Biblical Jews. Well Adolph Hitler believed the Jews He killed from 1938 to 1945 were true Jews! The Balfour agreement of 1917 believed that the Jews of the 20th century were true Jews! The United States and the world believed the Jews of 1945 were true Jews and they gave them their land back! Muslims today believe that Israel today are the true Jews because they keep trying to exterminate them! The world today hates the Jews….. they don’t hate fake Jews. That would not make any sense!
In 1948 JEWS returned to their land. Who else would have done this? Why if you are not a Jew would your leave your home and return to a desert to start all over again? The Bible says there is neither Jew nor Greek….there is only one way to salvation for ALL people. Jews do not lose their Jewishness when they become Christians. And Gentiles don’t become Jews by accepting Christ or Judaism. Jews as a genetic people have promises from God that will be fulfilled….. separate from and in addition to their Christian blessings. The church has been grafted into the tree of life…. i.e. the promises of God and the salvation of God both to Jews and Gentile believers. Israel is in their land in unbelief. That is another sign. We don’t have to accept everything they do…but we believe in their ancestry, their right to the land, and their glorious future.