Notes from Willmington - the Doctrine of Prophecy.
The Fact of the Millennial Reign.
The word “millennium” is a Latin Term which signifies “one thousand years”.
Note Revelation
Rev 20:4 Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshipped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. Willmington p.851
In the first seven verses of Rev.20 the Apostle John mentions ‘one thousand years’ period no less than six time. So think that since this number is found in only one NT Passage of the Bible, one cannot insist the the “one thousand year Reign” will really come to pass. They also mention 2Pe 3:8 But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. This same group that try to shrink the "one thousand years into one day” they also expand the six days of Creation in thousands of years. One is tempted to ask, “Why can’t God mean what He says.”
Dr Rene Pache in “the Return of Christ”, writes:
“Let us notice this Fact: the teaching of the Old Testament concerning the Millennium is so complete that the Jews in the Talmud succeeded in developing it entirely themselves, without the gifts furnished later by the new testament. For example, they had indeed affirmed before the Apocalypse THAT THE MESSIANIC KINGDOM WOULD LAST ONE THOUSAND YEARS..One should not therefore claim that without the Passage in Rev. 20 :1-10 the doctrine of the Millennium would not exist. “The Return of Christ “p.380
Throughout Church History Christians have held to three major views concerning the Millennium.
Post-millennialism.
This theory says that through the preaching of the Gospel of Christ the worlds will eventually embrace Christianity and become a universal “society of saints”. At this point Christ will be invited to assume command and reign over man’s peaceful planet. Though they believe in the literal ‘one thousand year reign of Christ’, their position is False, for the Bible clearly teaches that the world situation will become worse and worse prior to the Second Coming of Christ -not better and better.
Note: 1Ti 4:1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,
1Ti 4:2 through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared,
1Ti 4:3 who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
2Ti 3:1 But of this be assured: in the last days grievous times will set in.
2Ti 3:2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, profane. They will be disobedient to parents, thankless, irreligious,
2Ti 3:3 destitute of natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers. They will have no self-control, but will be brutal, opposed to goodness,
2Ti 3:4 treacherous, headstrong, self-important. They will love pleasure instead of loving God,
2Ti 3:5 and will keep up a make-believe of piety and yet live in defiance of its power. Turn away from people of this sort.
Daniel Whitby (1638-1726) popularised this teaching which endured until the First World War. Finally it was laid to rest in the midst of Hitler’s gas ovens.
2. Amillennialism,
This view teaches that there will be no millennial reign of Christ at all, and that the NT Church inherits all the spiritual promises AND PROPHECIES of OT Israel. In this view Isaiah’s beautiful prophecy of the bear and the cow lying down together and the lion eating straw like an ox simply doesn't mean what it says. Isa 11:7 Cows and bears will share the same pasture; their young will rest side by side. Lions and oxen will both eat straw. CEV
If the 11th chapter of Isaiah can be taken away why not the 53rd chapter as well. This allegorization of Scripture makes no sense.
3. Premillennialism
This view teaches that Christ will return just prior to the Millennium and will personally rule during the His Glorious One Thousand Year Reign. This Scriptural View is the only true one and is the oldest view of the Three. This was held by the Church Fathers. However as the Roman Catholic church began to grow she began to teach that she was the instrument that God would use to usher in the Millennial reign of Christ
Only in recent centuries has Premillennialism been restored to the Church through men such as Alford, Seiss, Darby and Scofield and many others.
1Co 6:3 Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life!
All fallen angels are included in this judgment. There may be two categories: Chained and Unchained.
Unchained Fallen Angels.
Luk 8:30 Jesus then asked him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Legion," for many demons had entered him.
Luk 8:31 And they begged him not to command them to depart into the abyss.
Eph 6:12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
These fallen angels (demons) have free movement and can posses both men and animals. Their main sin was following Satan in his wicked rebellion against God.
See Isaiah 14:12-17 and also Ezekiel 28 :12-19
b. Chained fallen Angels.
1Pe 3:18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
1Pe 3:19 in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison,
1Pe 3:20 because they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.
2Pe 2:4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;
Jud 1:6 And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—
According to these passages these fallen angels do not have freedom that the previous angels have. They are right now in “solitary confinement:” They are awaiting the Judgment at the end of the Tribulation.
Why the difference?
Many believe that this group were guilty of two grievous sins - not only did they join in Satan’s revolt, but they also committed sexual perversion. “with the daughters of men. Willmington p.851
I do not believe that this is possible as jesus said that angels neither marry nor are given in marriage. They have no sexual relations.
Mat_22:30 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
Mar_12:25 For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
Those in Genesis 6:2 are the line of Seth “the sons of God”.
It is believed by this study Guide that at the Resurrection at the time of the rapture, only those believers who have been saved from Pentecost till the Rapture will rise. All other believers will rise at the end of the Tribulation just prior to the Millenium.
Note these passage from the Scriptures.
Job 19:25 For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.
Job 19:26 And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God,
Psa 49:15 But God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah.
Isa 25:8 He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the LORD has spoken.
Isa 26:19 Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead.
Dan 12:2 And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Dan 12:3 And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.
Hos 13:14 Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death? O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion is hidden from my eyes.
Joh 5:28 Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice
Joh 5:29 and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
Heb 11:35 Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life.
Rev 20:4 Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
Rev 20:5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection.
1Co 15:19 If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.
1Co 15:20 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
1Co 15:21 For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.
1Co 15:22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
1Co 15:23 But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.
The Second Coming of Christ will see all the Non-church related saints(or the OT Saints) rise from the dead. For many long centuries Father Abraham has been patiently waiting for’that City whose Builder and Maker is God. Heb 11:10. God will not let him down. This will surely come to pass.
Rom 16:20 And before long, God, the Giver of peace will crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you! WNT
Rev 20:1 Then I saw an angel coming down from Heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit, and upon his arm he carried a great chain.
Rev 20:2 He laid hold of the Dragon--the ancient serpent--who is the Devil and the Adversary, and bound him for a thousand years, and hurled him into the bottomless pit.
Rev 20:3 He closed the entrance and put a seal upon him in order that he might be unable to lead the nations astray any more until the thousand years were at an end. Afterwards he is to be set at liberty for a short time. WNT
We have here, I. A prophecy of the binding of Satan for a certain term of time, in which he should have much less power and the church much more peace than before. The power of Satan was broken in part by the setting up of the gospel kingdom in the world; it was further reduced by the empire's becoming Christian; it was yet further broken by the downfall of the mystical Babylon; but still this serpent had many heads, and, when one is wounded, another has life remaining in it. Here we have a further limitation and diminution of his power. Observe, 1. To whom this work of binding Satan is committed - to an angel from heaven.
2. The means he makes use of in this work: he has a chain and a key, a great chain to bind Satan, and the key of the prison in which he was to be confined. Christ never wants of proper powers and instruments to break the power of Satan, for he has all the powers of heaven and the keys of hell.
3. The execution of this work, Rev_20:2, Rev_20:3. above
(1.) He laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the devil, and Satan. Neither the strength of the dragon, nor the subtlety of the serpent, was sufficient to rescue him out of the hands of Christ; he caught hold, and kept his hold. And, (2.) He cast him into the bottomless pit, cast him down with force, and with a just vengeance, to his own place and prison, from which he had been permitted to break out, and disturb the churches, and deceive the nations; now he is brought back to that prison, and there laid in chains. (3.) He is shut up, and a seal set upon him. Christ shuts, and none can open; he shuts by his power, seals by his authority; and his lock and seal even the devils themselves cannot break open. (4.) We have the term of this confinement of Satan - a thousand years, after which he was to be loosed again for a little season. The church should have a considerable time of peace and prosperity, but all her trials were not yet over. Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible
SUMMARY.--The Ten Virgins. The Foolish Who Took No Oil. The Bridegroom Comes. The Doors Shut on the Foolish Virgins. Watch Therefore. The Parable of the Talents. The Manner of Using. The Reckoning When the Lord Comes. The Day of Judgment Portrayed. The Gathering of the Nations. The Great Separation. The Blessedness of Those on the Right Hand. The Awful Fate of Those on the Left. The Ground of the Separation. The Everlasting Punishment and Life Eternal.
Mat 25:31 "When the Son of Man comes in his glory and all his angels are with him, he will sit on his glorious throne.
Mat 25:32 The people of every nation will be gathered in front of him. He will separate them as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
Mat 25:33 He will put the sheep on his right but the goats on his left.
Mat 25:34 "Then the king will say to those on his right, 'Come, my Father has blessed you! Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world.
Mat 25:35 I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me something to drink. I was a stranger, and you took me into your home.
Mat 25:36 I needed clothes, and you gave me something to wear. I was sick, and you took care of me. I was in prison, and you visited me.'
Mat 25:37 "Then the people who have God's approval will reply to him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you or see you thirsty and give you something to drink?
Mat 25:38 When did we see you as a stranger and take you into our homes or see you in need of clothes and give you something to wear?
Mat 25:39 When did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?'
Mat 25:40 "The king will answer them, 'I can guarantee this truth: Whatever you did for one of my brothers or sisters, no matter how unimportant they seemed, you did for me.'
Mat 25:41 "Then the king will say to those on his left, 'Get away from me! God has cursed you! Go into everlasting fire that was prepared for the devil and his angels!
Mat 25:42 I was hungry, and you gave me nothing to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me nothing to drink.
Mat 25:43 I was a stranger, and you didn't take me into your homes. I needed clothes, and you didn't give me anything to wear. I was sick and in prison, and you didn't take care of me.'
Mat 25:44 "They, too, will ask, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or as a stranger or in need of clothes or sick or in prison and didn't help you?'
Mat 25:45 "He will answer them, 'I can guarantee this truth: Whatever you failed to do for one of my brothers or sisters, no matter how unimportant they seemed, you failed to do for me.'
Mat 25:46 "These people will go away into eternal punishment, but those with God's approval will go into eternal life."
Note the False Views of this Judgment.
That this ‘sheep and goats’ judgment is the same as the GREAT WHITE THRONE judgment of Rev 20 :11-15. They are not the same for one takes place at the end of the Great Tribulation but the Great White Throne takes place at the end of the Millenium.
That the ‘Sheep and Goats’ Judgment deals only with entire nations. Some have imagined the nations of the world lined up before God. At God’s command Russia steps up then South Africa. No, God is dealing with the Gentiles..
b. The Basis for this Judgment
The test: How those gentiles who have survived the tribulation have treated faithful Israel. (Here referred to by Christ Himself as “My Brethren”)
Bert and Anne Bochove, who hid 37 Jews in their pharmacy in Huizen, an Amsterdam suburb, pose here with their children. The two were named "Righteous Among the Nations." The Netherlands, 1944 or 1945.
In Nazi Germany, during World War II escaping Jews were on a Number of Occasions befriended and protected by German Families who, in spite of their nationality, did not agree with Hitler and his ‘final solution’.Apparently the same thing will take place during the Tribulation. believing gentiles will , at the risk of their lives, protect and the Messengers.
German-occupied Denmark was the site of the most famous and complete rescue operation in Axis-controlled Europe. In late summer 1943, German occupation authorities imposed martial law on Denmark in response to increasing acts of resistance and sabotage. German Security Police officials planned to deport the Danish Jews while martial law was in place. On September 28, 1943, a German businessman warned Danish authorities of the impending operation, scheduled for the night of October 1–2, 1943. With the help of their non-Jewish neighbors and friends, virtually all the Danish Jews went into hiding. During the following days, the Danish resistance organized a rescue operation, in which Danish fishermen clandestinely ferried some 7,200 Jews (of the country's total Jewish population of 7,800) in small fishing boats, to safety in neutral Sweden.
Irena Sendler changed the fate of over 2,500 Jewish children during the Holocaust. She and her colleagues falsified over 3,000 documents to help Jewish families escape. In 1943, Sendler was arrested and was sentenced to execution by firing squad. After a final torture session, where they broke her arms and legs, Irena regained consciousness to find that a Guard had been bribed by her friends within Zegota. The guard marked her off as executed and left her in the woods to be resc
What an amazing prophecy from the Pen of the Apostle John!
Rev 11:15 At the sound of the seventh trumpet, loud voices were heard in heaven. They said, "Now the kingdom of this world belongs to our Lord and to his Chosen One! And He will rule forever and ever!"
Rev 19:11 I looked and saw that heaven was open, and a white horse was there. Its rider was called Faithful and True, and he is always fair when he judges or goes to war.
Rev 19:12 He had eyes like flames of fire, and he was wearing a lot of crowns. His name was written on him, but he was the only one who knew what the name meant.
Rev 19:13 The rider wore a robe that was covered with blood, and he was known as "The Word of God."
Rev 19:14 He was followed by armies from heaven that rode on horses and were dressed in pure white linen.
Rev 19:15 From his mouth a sharp sword went out to attack the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod and will show the fierce anger of God All-Powerful by trampling the grapes in the pit where wine is made.
Rev 19:16 On the part of the robe that covered his thigh was written, "KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS."
A. The Chronology of The Second Coming.
It begins with fearful manifestations in the skies.
Mat 24:29 Right after those days of suffering, "The sun will become dark, and the moon will no longer shine. The stars will fall, and the powers in the sky will be shaken."
The sun darkened by smoke in Australia
Luk 21:25 Strange things will happen to the sun, moon, and stars. The nations on earth will be afraid of the roaring sea and tides, and they won't know what to do.
Luk 21:26 People will be so frightened that they will faint because of what is happening to the world. Every power in the sky will be shaken.
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2. The Heavens open and Jesus comes forth on a White Horse.
Mat 24:30 Then a sign will appear in the sky. And there will be the Son of Man. All nations on earth will weep when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Mat 24:31 At the sound of a loud trumpet, he will send his angels to bring his chosen ones together from all over the earth.
The Return of Christ - THE SECOND COMING
Rev 1:7 Look! He is coming with the clouds. Everyone will see him, even the ones who stuck a sword through him. All people on earth will weep because of him. Yes, it will happen! Amen.
Rev 19:11 I looked and saw that heaven was open, and a white horse was there. Its rider was called Faithful and True, and he is always fair when he judges or goes to war.
Rev 19:12 He had eyes like flames of fire, and he was wearing a lot of crowns. His name was written on him, but he was the only one who knew what the name meant.
Rev 19:13 The rider wore a robe that was covered with blood, and he was known as "The Word of God."
B. The Reasons for the Second Coming of Christ at the End of the tribulation.
To defeat the Antichrist and the nations of the World assembled at Armageddon.
This will be the start of wholesale carnage among the Armies of the Beast. The Glorious appearing will cause trembling and Confusion in the ranks of the soldiers.
Zec 12:2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling unto all the peoples round about, and upon Judah also shall it be in the siege against Jerusalem.
Zec 14:13 On that day a large-scale panic from the LORD will spread among them. One person will grab the hand of another, and one will attack the other.
The desertions will be so great that antichrist will be abandoned and rendered powerless.
2Th 2:8 and then the Lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will sweep away with the tempest of His anger, and utterly overwhelm by the awful splendour of His Coming.
There will be such a brilliant Light from heaven that it will produced astonishment and Blindness in animals and madness in men
Zec 12:4 The LORD declares, "On that day I will strike every horse with panic and every rider with madness. I will watch over the people of Judah, but I will strike all the horses of the nations blind.
The bodies of men and animals will rot where they stand. Just like Ebola or Atomic Radiation.
Zec 14:12 This will be the plague the LORD will use to strike all the people from the nations that have gone to war against Jerusalem. Their flesh will rot while they are standing on their feet. Their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
Zec 14:15 A similar plague will also affect horses, mules, camels, donkeys, and all other animals in those camps.
The blood of the animals and men will form a river 200 miles long and bridle deep.
Rev 14:19 The angel swung his sickle on the earth and gathered the grapes from the vine of the earth. He threw them into the winepress of God's anger.
Rev 14:20 The grapes were trampled in the winepress outside the city. Blood flowed out of the winepress as high as a horse's bridle for 1,600 stadia.
The stench of the rotting mass of flesh will fill the entire region.
Isa 34:1 Come close, you nations, and listen. Pay attention, you people. The earth, everyone in it, the world, and everything on it will listen.
Isa 34:2 The LORD is angry with all the nations. He is furious with all their armies. He has claimed them for destruction. He has handed them over to be slaughtered.
Isa 34:3 Their dead bodies will be thrown out. A stench will rise from their corpses. Mountains will be red with their blood.
This will provide a feast for vultures and carrion birds.
Rev 19:17 I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried out in a loud voice to all the birds flying overhead, "Come! Gather for the great banquet of God.
Rev 19:18 Eat the flesh of kings, generals, warriors, horses and their riders, and all free people and slaves, both important or insignificant people."
Rev 19:19 I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and their armies gathered to wage war against the rider on the horse and his army.
Rev 19:20 The beast and the false prophet who had done miracles for the beast were captured. By these miracles the false prophet had deceived those who had the brand of the beast and worshiped its statue. Both of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
Rev 19:21 The rider on the horse killed the rest with the sword that came out of his mouth. All the birds gorged themselves on the flesh of those who had been killed.
The Beast and the false prophet were thrown into the Lake of Fire forever.
Rev 19:20 The beast and the false prophet who had done miracles for the beast were captured. By these miracles the false prophet had deceived those who had the brand of the beast and worshiped its statue. Both of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
2. To Regather and Restore Faithful Israel.
One of the most frequent promises of the Old testament is the eventual Restoration of Israel. It was the prophets refrain or chorus.
Isa 43:5 Do not be afraid, because I am with you. I will bring your descendants from the east and gather you from the west.
Isa 43:6 I will say to the north, "Give them up," and to the south, "Do not keep them." Bring my sons from far away and my daughters from the ends of the earth.
Isa_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.
Jews Returning with Great Joy
Jer 24:6 I will watch over them for their own good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down. I will plant them and not uproot them.
Eze 11:17 "So tell them, 'This is what the Almighty LORD says: I will bring them together from the nations and gather them from the countries where I've scattered them. I will give them the land of Israel.
Probably the most amazing song of Praise is from Micah :
Mic 7:18 Who is a God like you? You forgive sin and overlook the rebellion of your faithful people. You will not be angry forever, because you would rather show mercy.
Mic 7:19 You will again have compassion on us. You will overcome our wrongdoing. You will throw all our sins into the deep sea.
Jesus, Himself, spoke of this in one of his last Sermons before the Crucifixion.
Mat 24:32 "Learn from the story of the fig tree. When its branch becomes tender and it sprouts leaves, you know that summer is near.
Mat 24:33 In the same way, when you see all these things, you know that he is near, at the door.
Mat 24:34 "I can guarantee this truth: This generation will not disappear until all these things take place.
A Time of temporary sorrow.
Zec 12:10 "I will pour out the Spirit of blessing and mercy on David's family and on those who live in Jerusalem. They will look at me, whom they have stabbed. Then they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only son, and they will cry bitterly for him as one cries for a firstborn son.
Zec 12:11 On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as intense as the mourning at Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
Zec 13:6 And one shall say to him, What are these wounds in your hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of those who love Me.
Rev 1:7 Behold, He comes with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, and those who pierced Him will see Him, and all the kindreds of the earth will wail because of Him. Even so, Amen.
A Time of Ultimate Joy
Isa 25:8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord Jehovah will wipe away tears from all faces. And He shall take away from all the earth the rebuke of His people. For Jehovah has spoken.
Isa 25:9 And one shall say in that day, Lo, this is our God. We have waited for Him, and He will save us. This is Jehovah; we have waited for Him, we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.
Isa 43:25 I, I am He who blots out your sins for My own sake, and will not remember your sins.
Beth Israel Congregation's 2nd graders wave the lulav and etrog (bundles used to recite special blessings) in their Sukkah, one of the largest in Michigan erected just for the eight day Festival of Sukkot Isa 51:3 For Jehovah shall comfort Zion; He will comfort all her waste places; and He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Jehovah. Joy and gladness shall be found in it, thanksgiving and the voice of melody.
Isa 55:12 For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break out before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Tel Aviv Beach
3. To Judge and punish faithless Israels
The Apostle Paul writes in the Book of Romans:
Rom 11:26 And so all Israel shall be saved; as it is written, "There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
Rom 9:6 Not however that the Word of God has failed, for not all those of Israel are Israel;
Today amazingly 80% of the Jews in Israel are secular. Many have no faith at all and blame God for all that has happened. This is faithless Israel
God will be especially gracious to the true Israel and especially harsh will the false Israel.
Israel today is a thriving country
Note her sins:
Against the Father in heaven.Num 14:22 Because all those men who have seen My glory and My miracles which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted Me now these ten times, and have not listened to My voice,
Num 14:23 surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked Me see it.
Num 14:24 But My servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed Me fully, I will bring him into the land into which he went. And his seed shall possess it.
Against the Son of God.
Joh 1:10 He was in the world, and the world came into being through Him, and the world did not know Him.
Joh 1:11 He came to His own, and His own received Him not.
Joh 1:12 But as many as received Him, He gave to them authority to become the children of God, to those who believe on His name,
Faithless Israel Crucified the Son of God.
Act 2:22 "Listen, Israelites, to what I say. Jesus, the Nazarene, a man accredited to you from God by miracles and marvels and signs which God did among you through Him, as you yourselves know, Him--
Act 2:23 delivered up through God's settled purpose and foreknowledge--you by the hands of Gentiles have nailed to a cross and have put to death.
Act 2:24 But God has raised Him to life, having terminated the throes of death, for in fact it was not possible for Him to be held fast by death.
Act 2:25 For David says in reference to Him, "'I CONSTANTLY FIXED MY EYES UPON THE LORD, BECAUSE HE IS AT MY RIGHT HAND IN ORDER THAT I MAY CONTINUE UNSHAKEN.
The Galilee
Her sins against the Holy Spirit - stubborn resistance.
Act 7:51 "O stiff-necked men, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you also are continually at strife with the Holy Spirit--just as your forefathers were.
d. Her sin against the Kingdom of God.
She refused to use her God given Abilities to promote the Kingdom of God.
Jesus said Mat 25:24 "But, next, the man who had the one talent in his keeping came and said, "'Sir, I knew you to be a severe man, reaping where you had not sown and garnering what you had not winnowed.
Mat 25:25 So being afraid I went and buried your talent in the ground: there you have what belongs to you.'
Mat 25:26 "'You wicked and slothful servant,' replied his master, 'did you know that I reap where I have not sown, and garner what I have not winnowed?
Mat 25:27 Your duty then was to deposit my money in some bank, and so when I came I should have got back my property with interest.
Mat 25:28 So take away the talent from him, and give it to the man who has the ten.'
Mat 25:29 (For to every one who has, more shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him who has nothing, even what he has shall be taken away.)
Mat 25:30 'But as for this worthless servant, put him out into the darkness outside: *there* will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.'
Luk 19:20 "The next came. "'Sir,' he said, 'here is your pound, which I have kept wrapt up in a cloth.
Luk 19:21 For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man: you take up what you did not lay down, and you reap what you did not sow.'
Luk 19:22 "'By your own words,' he replied, 'I will judge you, you bad servant. You knew me to be a severe man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow:
Luk 19:23 why then did you not put my money into a bank, that when I came I might have received it back with interest?
Luk 19:24 "And he said to those who stood by, "'Take the pound from him and give it to him who has the ten pounds.'
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Ezekiel’s Prophecy concerning Faithless Israel.
Eze 11:21 But as for those whose minds are set on following detestable and disgusting idols, I will pay them back for what they have done, declares the Almighty LORD.'"
Eze 20:36 I will put you on trial as I put your ancestors on trial in the desert of Egypt, declares the Almighty LORD.
Eze 20:37 Then I will make you suffer punishment and make you keep the terms of the promise.
Eze 20:38 I will get rid of rebels and those who do wrong against me. I will bring you out of the land where you are living. You will never enter Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Eze 20:39 "'Nation of Israel, this is what the Almighty LORD says: Serve your disgusting idols. But afterwards, you will listen to me. You will no longer dishonor my holy name with your gifts and your disgusting idols.
