Israel: Past, Present, and Future

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1 Israel: Past, Present, and Future

2 The Decree To Restore Daniel s Seventy Weeks Seventy Periods of Sevens DAN. 9: Messiah The Prince The Coming Prince Messiah Returns = 69 weeks March 5, 444 B.C. Artaxerxes Decree Neh. 2:1 3 ISRAEL March 30 A.D. 33 Triumphal Entry Luke 19:28 40 ½ Week REGATHERING IN UNBELIEF 666 ½ Week REGATHERING IN BELIEF ISRAEL

3 Israel s Two Regatherings to the Land CHURCH AGE Ezek 20:32 38; 22:17 22; 36:22 24; Isa. 11:11 12 Zeph. 2:1 2; REGATHERING IN UNBELIEF ½ Week Year Tribulation ½ Week Tribulation REGATHERING IN BELIEF Deut. 4:29 31; 30:1 10; Isa 27:12 13; 43:5 7; Jer. 16:14 15; 31:7 10 Ezek 11:14 18; Amos 9:14 15; Zech 10:8 12; Matt 24:31

4 The Great Tribulation Daniel s Seventieth Week Matt 24:15 Matt 24:9 14 Matt 24: ½ Week ½ Week ISRAEL

5 Joel 3:14, Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. Joel 3:15, The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will diminish their brightness.

6 Joel 3:16, The LORD also will roar from Zion, and utter His voice from Jerusalem; the heavens and earth will shake; but the LORD will be a shelter for His people, and the strength of the children of Israel. Joel 3:17, So you shall know that I am the LORD your God, dwelling in Zion My holy mountain. Then Jerusalem shall be holy, and no aliens shall ever pass through her again.

7 Zechariah 13:8, And it shall come to pass in all the land, says the LORD, :that two-thirds in it shall be cut off and die, but one-third shall be left in it: Zechariah 13:9, I will bring the one-third through the fire, will refine them as silver is refined, and test them as gold is tested. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, This is My people ; and each one will say, The LORD is my God.

8 Isaiah 10:20, And it shall come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and such as have escaped of the house of Jacob, will never again depend on him who defeated them, but will depend on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. Isaiah 10:21, The remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the Mighty God.

9 Isaiah 10:22, For though your people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea, a remnant of them will return; the destruction decreed shall overflow with righteousness. Isaiah 10:23, For the Lord GOD of hosts will make a determined end in the midst of all the land.

10 Revelation 12:6, Then the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days. Revelation 12:14, But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent.

11 Matthew 23:37, O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! Matthew 23:38, See! Your house is left to you desolate; Matthew 23:39, for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!

12 Romans 11:25, For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. Romans 11:26, And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: The Deliverer will come out of Zion, And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;

13 Romans 11:27, For this is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins.

14 The Campaign of Armageddon 1 The Valley f Armageddon Jerusalem Mount of Olives Valley of Jehoshaphat Babylon THE EIGHT STAGES 1 Gathering of the Armies of the Antichrist Petra or Bozrah

15 Revelation 16:12, Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared. Revelation 16:13, And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

16 Revelation 16:14, For they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. Revelation 16:15, Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame.

17 Revelation 16:16, And they gathered them together to the place called in Hebrew, Armageddon.

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23 The Campaign of Armageddon 1 The Valley f Armageddon Jerusalem Mount of Olives Valley of Jehoshaphat 2 Babylon THE EIGHT STAGES 1 Gathering of the Armies of the Antichrist 2 Destruction of Babylon Petra or Bozrah

24 Jeremiah 50:39, Therefore the wild desert beasts shall dwell there with the jackals, and the ostriches shall dwell in it. It shall be inhabited no more forever, Nor shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation. Jeremiah 50:40, As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors, says the LORD, so no one shall reside there, nor son of man dwell in it.

25 Jeremiah 50:4, In those days and in that time, says the LORD, The children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together; with continual weeping they shall come, and seek the LORD their God. Jeremiah 50:5, They shall ask the way to Zion, with their faces toward it, saying, Come and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that will not be forgotten.

26 Jeremiah 50:19, But I will bring back Israel to his home, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan; his soul shall be satisfied on Mount Ephraim and Gilead. Jeremiah 50:20, In those days and in that time, says the LORD, The iniquity of Israel shall be sought, but there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, but they shall not be found; for I will pardon those whom I preserve.

27 The Campaign of Armageddon 1 The Valley f Armageddon 3 Jerusalem Mount of Olives Valley of Jehoshaphat 2 Babylon THE EIGHT STAGES 1 Gathering of the Armies of the Antichrist 2 Destruction of Babylon 3 The Fall of Jerusalem Petra or Bozrah

28 Zechariah 14:1, Behold, the day of the LORD is coming, And your spoil will be divided in your midst. Zechariah 14:2, For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem; The city shall be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city shall go into captivity, but the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

29 The Campaign of Armageddon 1 The Valley f Armageddon 3 Jerusalem Mount of Olives Valley of Jehoshaphat 2 Babylon THE EIGHT STAGES 1 Gathering of the Armies of the Antichrist 2 Destruction of Babylon 3 The Fall of Jerusalem 4 The Armies of the Antichrist at Bozrah 4 Petra or Bozrah

30 Jeremiah 49:13, For I have sworn by Myself, says the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. And all its cities shall be perpetual wastes. Jeremiah 49:14, I have heard a message from the LORD, and an ambassador has been sent to the nations: Gather together, come against her, and rise up to battle!

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42 The Campaign of Armageddon 1 The Valley f Armageddon 3 Jerusalem Mount of Olives Valley of Jehoshaphat 2 Babylon THE EIGHT STAGES 1 Gathering of the Armies of the Antichrist 2 Destruction of Babylon 3 The Fall of Jerusalem 4 The Armies of the Antichrist at Bozrah 5 Israel s Regeneration 4 5 Petra or Bozrah

43 Romans 11:25, For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. Romans 11:26, And so [in this manner ] all Israel will be saved, as it is written: The Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;

44 Isaiah 64:10, Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. Isaiah 64:11, Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, is burned up with fire; and all our pleasant things are laid waste. Isaiah 64:12, Will You restrain Yourself because of these things, O LORD? Will You hold Your peace, and afflict us very severely?

45 The Campaign of Armageddon 1 The Valley f Armageddon 3 Jerusalem Mount of Olives Valley of Jehoshaphat 6 2 Babylon THE EIGHT STAGES 1 Gathering of the Armies of the Antichrist 2 Destruction of Babylon 3 The Fall of Jerusalem 4 The Armies of the Antichrist at Bozrah 5 Israel s Regeneration 6 Second Coming of Christ 4 5 Petra or Bozrah

46 And it will come about in that day that I will set about to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, and they shall look upon Me whom they have pierced, and shall mourn for Him, as one mourns for his only son. Zechariah 12:9 10

47 Isaiah 34:6, The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made overflowing with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. Isaiah 63:1, Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah, this One who is glorious in His apparel, traveling in the greatness of His strength? I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.

48 The Campaign of Armageddon 1 The Valley f Armageddon 2 Babylon 3 Jerusalem 7 Mount of Olives Valley of Jehoshaphat 6 THE EIGHT STAGES 1 Gathering of the Armies of the Antichrist 2 Destruction of Babylon 3 The Fall of Jerusalem 4 The Armies of the Antichrist at Bozrah 5 Israel s Regeneration 6 Second Coming of Christ 7 End of Fighting at the Valley of Jehoshaphat 4 5 Petra or Bozrah

49 Joel 3:12, Let the nations be wakened, and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations. Joel 3:13, Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, go down; for the winepress is full, the vats overflow -- for their wickedness is great.

50 The Campaign of Armageddon 1 The Valley f Armageddon 3 Jerusalem 8 7 Mount of Olives Valley of Jehoshaphat Petra or Bozrah 2 Babylon THE EIGHT STAGES 1 Gathering of the Armies of the Antichrist 2 Destruction of Babylon 3 The Fall of Jerusalem 4 The Armies of the Antichrist at Bozrah 5 Israel s Regeneration 6 Second Coming of Christ 7 End of Fighting at the Valley of Jehoshaphat 8 Victory Ascent Upon the Mount of Olives

51 Zechariah 14:3, Then the LORD will go forth and fight against those nations, as He fights in the day of battle. Zechariah 14:4, And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, from east to west, making a very large valley; half of the mountain shall move toward the north and half of it toward the south.

52 Zechariah 14:4, And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, from east to west, making a very large valley; half of the mountain shall move toward the north And half of it toward the south. Zechariah 14:5, Then you shall flee through My mountain valley, for the mountain valley shall reach to Azal. Yes, you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Thus the LORD my God will come, and all the saints with You. Zechariah 14:6, It shall come to pass in that day that there will be no light; the lights will diminish.

53 And I saw heaven opened; and behold, a white horse, and He who sat upon it is called Faithful and True; and in righteousness He judges and wages war And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses. And from His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may smite the nations; and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty. Revelation 19:11 15

54 For behold, the LORD will come in fire and His chariots like the whirlwind, to render His anger with fury, and His rebuke with flames of fire. For the LORD will execute judgment by fire and by His sword on all flesh, and those slain by the LORD will be many. Isaiah 66:15 16

55 And the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who performed the signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image; these two were thrown alive into the lake of fire which burns with brimstone. Revelation 19:20

56 Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Can a land be born in one day? Can a nation be brought forth all at once? Isaiah 66:8

57 But immediately after the tribulation of those days they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. And He will send forth His angels with a great trumpet and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other. Matthew 24:29 31

58 Slide By Default! And I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a into the abyss, thousand years, and shut it and and threw him sealed it over him, so that he should not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time. Revelation 20:1 3 A Free sample background from

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60 The Millennial Kingdom

61 ISRAEL'S DESTINY End of History Exodus Captivity First Coming Temple Destroyed IN THE LAND THE REMNANT Second Coming Millennium OUT OF THE LAND

62 Universal Peace And they will hammer their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, and never again will they learn war. Isaiah 2:4

63 And the cow and the bear will graze; their young will lie down together; and the lion will eat straw like the ox. Isaiah 11:7

64 And the nursing child will play by the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper s den. Isaiah 11:8

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66 1. Righteous angels will no longer function in governmental capacities. 2. Believers who survive the Great Tribulation will also outlive the Millennium. 3. Jerusalem will be the religious and political center of the world. 4. World worship will center at the Temple. 5. The knowledge of the Lord will cover the earth, all education will be religiously orthodox.

67 For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain Isaiah 25:10

68 All the land will be changed into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; but Jerusalem will rise and remain on its site from Benjamin s Gate as far as the place of the First Gate to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king s wine presses. And people will live in it, and there will be no more curse, for Jerusalem will dwell in security. Zechariah 14:10 11

69 And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate facing toward the east. And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house. Ezek. 43:4 5

70 During the Millennial reign of Christ, Israel as a nation will fulfill the function for which they were originally set apart by God. They will become a kingdom of priests (Ex. 19:6) who are intermediaries between those who need to be saved and the King who provides salvation. They will become as they were originally appointed to be: God s lights to the world. J. Dwight Pentecost, Thy Kingdom Come, pp

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