Israel returns then
what?
As we have seen in previous articles, Israel
goes into captivity, then the Father and King David
rescue the Israelites from
the many countries and Islands
where they have
been driven.
Mic
2:12 "I
will surely assemble all of
you, O Jacob, I will surely gather the remnant of
Israel; I will put them
together like sheep of the fold, Like a flock in
the midst of their pasture;
They shall make a loud noise because of so
many people.
Mic
2:13 The
one who breaks open will come
up before them; They will break out, Pass through
the gate, And go out by it;
Their king will pass before them, With the LORD at
their head."
Psa
14:7 Oh,
that the salvation of Israel would
come out of Zion!
When the LORD brings back the captivity of His
people, Let Jacob rejoice and Israel
be glad.
They have been
held captive for 2-3 years.
Hos 6:1 Come,
and let us return to the LORD; For He
has torn, but He will heal us; He has stricken,
but He will bind us up.
Hos
6:2 After
two days He will revive us; On
the third day He will raise us up, That we may
live in His sight.
The rebels are
purged out.
Eze
20:38 I
will purge the rebels from among
you, and those who transgress against Me; I will
bring them out of the country
where they dwell, but they shall not enter the land
of Israel.
Then you will know that I am
the LORD.
On their way
back
to Jerusalem they
plunder many nations, the
nations who held Israel
captive, will become slaves to the nation of Israel.
Isa
14:1 For
the LORD will have mercy on
Jacob, and will still choose Israel,
and settle them in their own land. The strangers
will be joined with them, and
they will cling to the house of Jacob.
Isa
14:2 Then
people will take them and
bring them to their place, and the house of Israel
will possess them for
servants and maids in the land of the LORD; they
will take them captive whose
captives they were, and rule over their
oppressors.
THEN THE BATTLE IN THE VALLEY
OF
JEHOSHAPHAT
This is the
destruction of the Arab league and other nations,
which was responsible for Israel
going
into captivity.
Joe
3:1 "For
behold, in those days and
at that time, When I bring back the captives of Judah
and Jerusalem,
Joe 3:2 I will
also gather all nations, And bring them
down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; And I will
enter into judgment with them
there On account of My people, My heritage Israel,
Whom they have scattered
among the nations; They have also divided up My
land.
Joe
3:3 They
have cast lots for My people,
Have given a boy as payment
for
a harlot, And sold a girl for wine, that they may
drink.
Joe
3:4 "Indeed,
what have you to do
with Me, O Tyre
and Sidon,
and all the coasts of Philistia?
Will you
retaliate against Me? But if you retaliate against
Me, Swiftly and speedily I
will return your retaliation upon your own head;
Joe
3:5 Because
you have taken My silver and
My gold, And have carried into your temples My
prized possessions.
Joe
3:6 Also
the people of Judah and the
people of Jerusalem You have sold to the Greeks,
That you may remove them far
from their borders.
Joe
3:7 "Behold,
I will raise them Out
of the place to which you have sold them, And will
return your retaliation upon
your own head.
Joe
3:8 I
will sell your sons and your
daughters Into the hand of the people of Judah,
And they will sell them to the
Sabeans, To
a people far off; For the
LORD has spoken."
Joe
3:9 Proclaim
this among the nations:
"Prepare for war! Wake up the mighty men, Let all
the men of war draw
near, Let them come up.
Joe
3:10 Beat
your plowshares into swords
And your pruning hooks into spears; Let the weak
say, 'I am
strong.' "
Notice the
mighty
ones of God are summoned for this battle.
Joe 3:11 Assemble
and come, all you nations, And
gather together all around. Cause Your mighty ones
to go down there, O LORD.
Notice that the
nations which are summoned are the heathens.
Joe
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.
Joe
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."
Joe
3:14 Multitudes,
multitudes in the
valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of
decision.
REPENTANT ISRAEL BUILD
THE TEMPLE
The temple will
be built.
Zec
1:16 'Therefore
thus says the LORD:
"I am returning to Jerusalem
with mercy; My
house shall be built in it," says the LORD of
hosts, "And a surveyor's
line shall be stretched
out over Jerusalem."
'
Once God is
happy
with Israel’s
attitude
they are given the plans of the temple. They
build the temple.
Eze
43:10 "Son
of man, describe the
temple to the house of Israel,
that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and
let them measure the pattern.
Eze
43:11 And
if they are ashamed of all
that they have done, make known to them the design
of the temple and its
arrangement, its exits and its entrances, its
entire design and all its
ordinances, all its forms and all its laws. Write
it down in their sight, so that
they may keep its whole design
and all its ordinances, and perform them.
The temple is
built under the direct supervision of the Father,
and King David.
Zec
6:15 Even
those from afar shall come and
build the temple of the LORD. Then you shall know
that the LORD of hosts has
sent Me to you. And this
shall
come to pass if you diligently obey the voice of
the LORD your God."
Psa
78:69 And
He built His sanctuary like
the heights, Like the earth which He has
established forever.
Psa
78:70 He
also chose David His servant,
And took him from the sheepfolds;
Psa
78:71 From
following the ewes that had
young He brought him, To shepherd Jacob His
people, And Israel His inheritance.
Whilst the
above
verses are primarily talking about Israel,
in the time of King David;
this verse is dual and refers to the future temple,
and the future return from
captivity.
Once the temple
is built, the Father enters it.
Eze
44:2 And
the LORD said to me, "This
gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, and no
man shall enter by it,
because the LORD God of Israel
has entered by it; therefore it shall be shut.
THE
DECEPTION OF THE LITTLE HORN
The Father then
returns to heaven, the church and some Israelites
weaken, and fall into the
deception of the little horn.
Eze
8:6 Furthermore
He said to me, "Son
of man, do you see what they are doing, the great
abominations that the house
of Israel
commits here, to make Me go far away from My
sanctuary? Now turn again, you
will see greater abominations."
Dan
7:20 and
the ten horns that were
on its head, and the other horn
which came up, before which
three fell, namely, that horn which had eyes and a
mouth which spoke pompous
words, whose appearance was
greater than his fellows.
Dan
7:21 "I
was watching; and the same
horn was making war against the saints, and
prevailing against them,
Dan
7:22 until
the Ancient of Days came, and
a judgment was made in favor
of
the saints of the Most High, and the time came for
the saints to possess the
kingdom.
Dan
7:23 "Thus
he said: 'The fourth
beast shall be A fourth kingdom on earth, Which
shall be different from all other
kingdoms, And shall devour the
whole earth, Trample it and break it in pieces.
Dan
7:24 The
ten horns are
ten kings Who shall arise from this
kingdom. And another shall rise after
them; He shall be different from the first ones, And shall subdue three
kings.
Dan
7:25 He
shall speak pompous
words against the Most High,
Shall persecute the saints of the Most High, And
shall intend to change times
and law. Then the saints
shall
be given into his hand For a time and times and
half a time.
The following
scripture shows how the deceived church members
treat the genuine members.
Mat
24:48
But if that evil
servant says in his heart, 'My master is delaying
his coming,'
Mat
24:49
and begins to beat his
fellow servants, and to eat and
drink with the drunkards,
Mat
24:50
the master of that
servant will come on a day when he is not looking
for him and at an hour that he is not
aware of,
Mat
24:51
and will cut him in
two and appoint him
his portion
with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and
gnashing of teeth.
There is over 6
years from the time of the daily sacrifice till the
cleansing of the temple.
Dan
8:13 Then
I heard a holy one speaking;
and another
holy one said to
that certain one
who was
speaking, "How long will
the vision be,
concerning the
daily sacrifices
and the
transgression of desolation, the giving of both
the sanctuary and the host to
be trampled underfoot?"
Dan
8:14 And
he said to me, "For two
thousand three hundred days; then the sanctuary
shall be cleansed."
These
scriptures
show the little horn is the son of perdition, which
is one of the evil sons of
God.
2Th
2:3 Let
no one deceive you by any means;
for that
Day will not come
unless the falling away comes first, and the man
of sin is revealed, the son of
perdition,
2Th
2:4 who
opposes and exalts himself above
all that is called God or that is worshiped, so
that he sits as God in the temple of God,
showing himself that he is God.
Then the
gentiles
ask where is your God?
Psa
79:10 Why
should the nations say,
"Where is
their God?"
Let there be known among the nations in our sight
The avenging of the blood of
Your servants which has
been shed.
The church
calls a fast. God
hears them and makes sure they are well
fed during the day of the Lord.
Joe
2:15 Blow
the trumpet in Zion,
Consecrate a fast, Call a sacred assembly;
Joe
2:16 Gather
the people, Sanctify the
congregation, Assemble the elders, Gather the
children and nursing babes; Let
the bridegroom go out from his chamber, And the
bride from her dressing room.
Joe
2:17 Let
the priests, who minister to
the LORD, Weep between the porch and the altar;
Let them say, "Spare Your
people, O LORD, And do not give Your heritage to
reproach, That the nations
should rule over them. Why should they say among
the peoples, 'Where is
their God?' "
Joe
2:18 Then
the LORD will be zealous for
His land, And pity His people.
Joe
2:19 The
LORD will answer and say to His
people, "Behold, I will send you grain and new
wine and oil, And you will
be satisfied by them; I will no longer make you a
reproach among the nations.
Joe
2:20 "But
I will remove far from
you the northern army,
And will
drive him away into a barren and desolate land,
With his face toward the
eastern sea And his back toward the western sea;
His stench will come up, And
his foul odor will rise, Because he has done
monstrous things."
Joe
2:21 Fear
not, O land; Be glad and
rejoice, For the LORD has done marvelous things!
Joe
2:22 Do
not be afraid, you beasts of the
field; For the open pastures are springing up, And
the tree bears its fruit;
The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.
Joe
2:23 Be
glad then, you children of Zion,
And rejoice in the LORD your God; For He has given
you the former rain
faithfully, And He will cause the rain to come
down for you The former rain,
And the latter rain in the first month.
Joe
2:24 The
threshing floors shall be full
of wheat, And the vats shall overflow with new
wine and oil.
Joe
2:25 "So
I will restore to you the
years that the swarming locust has eaten, The
crawling locust, The consuming
locust, And the chewing locust, My great army
which I sent among you.
Joe
2:26 You
shall eat in plenty and be
satisfied, And praise the name of the LORD your
God, Who has dealt wondrously
with you; And My people shall never be put to
shame.
Joe
2:27 Then
you shall know that I am in
the midst of Israel:
I am the LORD your God And there is
no other. My people shall
never be put to shame.
Joe
2:28 "And
it shall come to pass
afterward That I will pour out My Spirit on all
flesh; Your sons and your
daughters shall prophesy, Your old men shall dream
dreams, Your young men shall
see visions.
Joe
2:29 And
also on My menservants and on My
maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those
days.
Joe
2:30 "And
I will show wonders in
the heavens and in the earth: Blood and fire and
pillars of smoke.
Joe
2:31 The
sun shall be turned into
darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the
coming of the great and awesome
day of the LORD.
Joe
2:32 And
it shall come to pass That
whoever calls on the name of the
LORD Shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem
there shall be deliverance, As the LORD has said,
Among the remnant whom the
LORD calls.
The following
scripture shows the people want the Father to
return. This proves He has
been here rescuing Israel
and overseeing the temple construction.
Psa
80:14 Return,
we beseech You, O God of
hosts; Look down from heaven and see, And visit
this vine
Once the Father
leaves the church members to look after the temple,
it isn’t long before deceit
and rebellion raise their ugly heads. The church
becomes divided, and some are
practicing abominations in the temple.
Eze
8:14 So
He brought me to the door of the
north gate of the LORD's house; and to my dismay,
women were sitting there
weeping for Tammuz.
Then we see
that
the little horn has intelligence with them that
forsake the holy
covenant.
Dan
11:30 For
ships from Cyprus shall come
against him; therefore he shall be grieved, and
return in rage against the holy
covenant, and do damage.
"So he shall return and show regard for those who
forsake the holy
covenant.
The people
think
that because the Father has returned to heaven that
He cannot see what is going
on.
Eze
8:12 Then
He said to me, "Son of
man, have you seen what the elders of the house of
Israel
do in the dark, every man in
the room of his idols? For they say, 'The LORD
does not see us, the LORD has
forsaken the land.' "
The heathen
defile the temple.
Psa 79:1 A
Psalm of Asaph. O God, the nations have
come into Your inheritance; Your
holy temple they have defiled; They have laid Jerusalem
in heaps.
Unfortunately Israel
and the
church have the temple for only a little while.
Isa
63:18 Your
holy people have possessed it but
a little while; Our
adversaries have trodden down Your sanctuary.
When the
abomination of desolation is set up the Israelites
are told to flee to the
mountains. Remember on their return from
captivity, they are placed in
the Jerusalem
area. There are approximately 14 million
Israelites in the area. Some have
repented of their wrong ways and
have their hearts turned to God. Many evil ones
amongst the Israelites have
been purged out and raised their heads by this
time. Those who flee to
the Valley
of Achor
sigh for the abominations in Jerusalem.
Whilst they
are in the Jerusalem
they are fed by Tyre
which is Babylon.
Their
money from whoredom with the nations of the
world, will go to feed and
clothe Israel.
This could well
be the reason some of the church members are
deceived by the King of
Tyre. He appears to care for Israel,
feeding and clothing
them. Remember he is driven by Satan and
appears to be something that he
simply is not.
Isa
23:17 And
it shall be, at the end of
seventy years, that the LORD will deal with Tyre.
She will return to her hire, and commit
fornication with all the kingdoms of the world on
the face of the earth.
Isa
23:18 Her
gain and her pay will be set
apart for the LORD; it will not be treasured nor
laid up, for her gain will be
for those who dwell before the LORD, to eat
sufficiently, and for fine
clothing.
THE
ABOMINATION IS SET UP
The Father sees
the church elders in the temple looking to the east.
Eze 11:1 Then the
Spirit lifted me up and brought me
to the East Gate of the LORD's house, which faces
eastward; and there at the
door of the gate were twenty-five men, among whom
I saw Jaazaniah the son of
Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of
the people.
The man with
the
ink horn starts to slay the people at the church
with the men mentioned above
who are sun worshippers.
When the
abomination is set up God the Father authorises the
slaying of those who do not
sigh over the abominations in Jerusalem
and marks out those He wants spared.
Eze 9:1 Then He
called out in my hearing with a loud
voice, saying, "Let those who have charge over the
city draw near, each with a
deadly weapon in his
hand."
Eze
9:2 And
suddenly six men came from the
direction of the upper gate, which faces north,
each with his battle-ax in his
hand. One man among them was
clothed with linen and had a writer's inkhorn at
his side. They went in and
stood beside the bronze altar.
Eze
9:3 Now
the glory of the God of Israel
had gone up from the cherub, where it had been, to
the threshold of the temple.
And He called to the man clothed with linen, who had the writer's inkhorn at his
side;
Eze
9:4 and
the LORD said to him, "Go
through the midst of the city, through the midst
of Jerusalem, and put a mark
on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over
all the abominations that are
done within it."
Eze
9:5 To
the others He said in my hearing,
"Go after him through the city and kill; do not
let your eye spare, nor
have any pity.
Eze
9:6 Utterly
slay old and
young men, maidens and little
children and women; but do not come near anyone on
whom is the mark; and begin at My
sanctuary." So they began with
the elders who were
before the
temple.
Eze
9:7 Then
He said to them, "Defile
the temple, and fill the courts with the slain. Go
out!" And they went out
and killed in the city.
Eze
9:8 So
it was, that while they were
killing them, I was left alone;
and I fell on my face and cried out, and said,
"Ah, Lord GOD! Will You
destroy all the remnant of Israel
in pouring out Your fury on Jerusalem?"
Eze
9:9 Then
He said to me, "The
iniquity of the house of Israel
and Judah
is
exceedingly great, and the
land is full of bloodshed, and the city full of
perversity; for they say, 'The
LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD does not
see!'
Eze
9:10 And
as for Me also, My eye will
neither spare, nor will I have pity, but
I will recompense their deeds on their own head."
Eze
9:11 Just
then, the man clothed with
linen, who had
the inkhorn at
his side, reported back and said, "I have done as
You commanded me."
The Father then
lands on the Mount of Olives
and it splits in
two to make a way of escape for the Israelites.
Zec
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.
After this
slaying the genuine people will flee to the Valley
of Achor.
there are two signs for this,
1. Abomination set up.
2. Jerusalem
surrounded by Armies.
Mat
24:15 "Therefore
when you see the 'ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION,'
spoken of by Daniel the prophet,
standing in the holy place" (whoever reads, let him
understand),
Mat
24:16 "then
let those who are in Judea
flee to the
mountains.
Luk
21:20 "But
when you see Jerusalem
surrounded by armies, then know that its
desolation is near.
Repentant Israel flee to the
Valley
of Achor.
Isa
65:9 I
will bring forth descendants from
Jacob, And from Judah an heir of My mountains; My
elect shall inherit it, And
My servants shall dwell there.
Isa
65:10 Sharon
shall be a fold of flocks,
And the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie
down, For My people who have
sought Me.
Hos
2:15 I
will give her her vineyards from
there, And the Valley of Achor as a door of hope;
She shall sing there, As in
the days of her youth, As in the day when she came
up from the land of Egypt.
Once again the
Father marries Israel.
He was
married to them, but He had to
divorce them because of their whoredoms, and total
disobedience to Him.
Now they have a change of mind.
Hos
2:16 "And
it shall be, in that
day," Says the LORD, "That
you will call Me 'My Husband,' And no longer call
Me 'My Master,'
Hos
2:17 For
I will take from her mouth the
names of the Baals, And they shall be remembered
by their name no more.
Hos
2:18 In
that day I will make a covenant
for them With the beasts of the field, With the
birds of the air, And with
the creeping things of the
ground. Bow and sword of battle I will shatter
from the earth, To make them lie
down safely.
Hos
2:19 "I
will betroth you to Me
forever; Yes, I will betroth you to Me In
righteousness and justice, In
lovingkindness and mercy;
Hos
2:20 I
will betroth you to Me in
faithfulness, And you shall know the LORD.
Hos
2:21 "It
shall come to pass in that
day That
I will answer,"
says the LORD; "I will answer the heavens, And
they shall answer the
earth.
Hos
2:22 The
earth shall answer With grain,
With new wine, And with oil; They shall answer
Jezreel.
Hos 2:23 Then I
will sow her for Myself in the earth,
And I will have mercy on her who had
not obtained mercy; Then I will say to those
who were not My people, 'You are
My people!' And they shall say, 'You
are my God!' "
Isa
54:5 For
your Maker is
your husband, The LORD of hosts is His
name; And your Redeemer is the
Holy One of Israel;
He is called the God of the
whole earth.
Isa
54:6 For
the LORD has called you Like a
woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, Like a
youthful wife when you were
refused," Says your God.
Isa
54:7 "For
a mere moment I have
forsaken you, But with great mercies I will gather
you.
Isa
54:8 With
a little wrath I hid My face
from you for a moment; But with everlasting
kindness I will have mercy on
you," Says the LORD, your Redeemer.
Jer
31:33 But
this is the covenant that I will make
with the house of Israel after
those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in
their minds, and write it on
their hearts; and I will be their God, and they
shall be My people.
Jer
31:34 No
more shall every man teach his
neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, 'Know
the LORD,' for they all
shall know Me, from the least of them to the
greatest of them, says the LORD.
For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I
will remember no more."
Repentant Israel is protected
in the Valley of Achor
for 3 ½ years.
Rev
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.
Repentant Israel
is the
woman described in the following verse.
The following verses in Revelation are dual
and can also refer to the
church.
Rev 12:1 Now a
great sign appeared in heaven: a woman
clothed with the sun, with the moon under her
feet, and on her head a garland
of twelve stars.
Notice the
description of Israel
in these verses. The sun and moon are Jacob and
Rachel, the eleven stars are
the tribes of Israel
{Joseph being the 12th}
Gen
37:9 Then
he dreamed still another dream
and told it to his brothers, and said, "Look, I
have dreamed another
dream. And this time, the sun, the moon, and the
eleven stars bowed down to
me."
Gen 37:10 So he
told it to his father and his
brothers; and his father rebuked him
and said to him, "What is
this dream that you have dreamed? Shall your
mother and I and your brothers
indeed come to bow down to the earth before you?"
We have shown
very clearly that the woman is repentant Israel
and can also mean the church
which is about to be martyred by the dragon and
others, see Rev 12 v 7.
The following
verse shows how these verses have dual meanings. The dragon
is trying to devour the new
knowledge of Jesus Christ as soon as this knowledge
is given to the church.
Rev
12:4 His
tail drew a third of the stars
of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the
dragon stood before the woman
who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child
as soon as it was born.
When Israel
flees
then the serpent tries to destroy them.
Rev
12:15 So
the serpent spewed water out of
his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he
might cause her to be carried
away by the flood.
This flood is
the
army of Babylon.
When this army
tries to attack Israel,
the
earth helps Israel
and the earth devours them.
Rev
12:16 But
the earth helped the woman,
and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up
the flood which the dragon had
spewed out of his mouth.
The dragon then
turns his anger on God’s end time church, notice the
remnant have the testimony
of Christ.
Rev 12:17 And the
dragon was enraged with the woman,
and he went to make war with the rest of her
offspring, who keep the
commandments of God and have the testimony of
Jesus Christ.
The church
suffers great martyrdom at this time.
Psa
79:2 The
dead bodies of Your servants
They have given as
food for the
birds of the heavens, The flesh of Your saints to
the beasts of the earth.
Psa
79:3 Their
blood they have shed like
water all around Jerusalem, And there
was no one to bury them.
Back to
repentant
Israel
and what happens to them. During the time they are
in the Valley of Achor.
Later nations
try
to come against Israel
to destroy them, notice the following.
Eze 38:1 Now the
word of the LORD came to me, saying,
The following
nations Magog, Meshech and Tubal, are descendants of
Japeth and would be
Asiatics.
Eze
38:2 "Son
of man, set your face against
Gog, of the land of Magog,
the prince of
Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against
him,
Eze
38:3 and
say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD:
"Behold, I am
against you,
O Gog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.
Eze
38:4 I
will turn you around, put hooks
into your jaws, and lead you out, with all your
army, horses, and horsemen, all
splendidly clothed, a great company with
bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords.
Eze
38:5 Persia,
Ethiopia, and Libya
are with them, all of them with
shield and helmet;
Gomer and
Togarmah are also descendants of Japeth and would be
Asiatics.
Eze
38:6 Gomer
and all its troops; the house
of Togarmah from
the far north
and all its troops many people are
with you.
Eze
38:7 "Prepare
yourself and be
ready, you and all your companies that are
gathered about you; and be a guard
for them.
Eze
38:8 After
many days you will be
visited. In the latter years you will come into
the land of those brought back
from the sword and
gathered
from many people on the mountains of Israel, which
had long been desolate; they
were brought out of the nations, and now all of
them dwell safely.
Eze
38:9 You
will ascend, coming like a
storm, covering the land like a cloud, you and all
your troops and many peoples
with you."
Eze
38:10 'Thus
says the Lord GOD: "On
that day it shall come to pass that
thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will
make an evil plan:
Notice the
description of Israel
dwelling safely in the Valley of Achor.
The Israelites have confidence that God will protect
them in the Valley.
Eze
38:11 You
will say, 'I will go up
against a land of unwalled villages; I will go to
a peaceful people, who dwell
safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and
having neither bars nor gates'
The Israelites
are living very well in the Valley of Achor,
with cattle and
goods.
Eze
38:12 to
take plunder and to take booty,
to stretch out your hand against the waste places
that are again inhabited, and
against a people gathered from the
nations, who have acquired livestock and goods,
who dwell in the midst of the
land.
These nations,
Sheba
and Dedan, are descendants of Cush,
and
therefore are black nations. They ask
the Asiatics if they are going to plunder Israel.
Tarshish is a
descendant
of Japeth and therefore is Asiatic.
Eze
38:13 Sheba,
Dedan, the merchants of
Tarshish, and all their young lions will say to
you, 'Have you come to take
plunder? Have you gathered your army to take
booty, to carry away silver and
gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take
great plunder?' " '
They do not
know
that God will protect His people.
Eze
38:14 "Therefore,
son of man,
prophesy and say to Gog, 'Thus says the Lord GOD:
"On that day when My
people Israel
dwell safely, will you not know it?
Eze
38:15 Then
you will come from your place
out of the far north, you and many peoples with
you, all of them riding on
horses, a great company and a mighty army.
God allows this
to happen so that the heathen will come to know
God.
Eze
38:16 You
will come up against My people
Israel like a cloud, to cover the land. It will be
in the latter days that I
will bring you against My land, so that the
nations may know Me, when I am
hallowed in you, O Gog, before their eyes."
The prophets
told
of this invasion years ago.
Eze
38:17 Thus
says the Lord GOD: "Are you he
of whom I have spoken in
former days by My servants the prophets of Israel,
who prophesied for years in
those days that I would bring you against them?
God will make
the
earth shake in that day, and the people of the earth
will shake at the presence
of the Almighty.
Eze
38:18 "And
it will come to pass at
the same time, when Gog comes against the land
of Israel,"
says
the Lord GOD, "that
My fury will show in My face.
All the
mountains
will be made low.
Eze
38:19 For
in My jealousy and in
the fire of My wrath I have
spoken: 'Surely in that day there shall be a great
earthquake in the land of Israel,
Eze
38:20 so
that the fish of the sea, the
birds of the heavens, the beasts of the field, all
creeping things that creep
on the earth, and all men who are
on the face of the earth shall shake at My
presence. The mountains shall be
thrown down, the steep places shall fall, and
every wall shall fall to the
ground.'
Fire and
brimstone will fall on them.
Eze
38:21 I
will call for a sword against
Gog throughout all My mountains," says the Lord
GOD. "Every man's
sword will be against his brother.
Eze
38:22 And
I will bring him to judgment
with pestilence and bloodshed; I will rain down on
him, on his troops, and on
the many peoples who are
with
him, flooding rain, great hailstones, fire, and
brimstone.
Eze 38:23 Thus I
will magnify Myself and sanctify
Myself, and I will be known in the eyes of many
nations. Then they shall know
that I am
the LORD." '
When Gog and
Meshech and Tubal etc. come up against Israel
God kills 5/6 of the
men.
Eze 39:1 "And
you, son of man, prophesy against
Gog, and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I
am against you, O Gog, the prince
of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal;
Eze
39:2 and
I will turn you around and lead
you on, bringing you up from the far north, and
bring you against the mountains
of Israel.
Eze
39:3 Then
I will knock the bow out of
your left hand, and cause the arrows to fall out
of your right hand.
The beasts and
the birds will eat their bodies.
Eze 39:4 You
shall fall upon the mountains of Israel,
you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you; I will give you to
birds of prey of every sort and
to
the beasts of the field to
be devoured.
Eze
39:5 You
shall fall on the open field;
for I have spoken," says the Lord GOD.
Magog is
Asiatic
and they live in Islands.
The heathen
will know that God is the Holy One in Israel.
Eze
39:6 "And
I will send fire on Magog
and on those who live in security in the
coastlands. Then they shall know that
I am
the LORD.
Eze
39:7 So
I will make My holy name known
in the midst of My people Israel, and I will not let them profane My holy name
anymore. Then the nations shall
know that I am
the LORD, the
Holy One in Israel.
Eze
39:8 Surely
it is coming, and it shall
be done," says the Lord GOD. "This is the day of which I have
spoken.
Israel will burn the
weapons of the Asiatics for
7 years.
Eze
39:9 "Then
those who dwell in the
cities of Israel will go out and set on fire and
burn the weapons, both the
shields and bucklers, the bows and arrows, the
javelins and spears; and they
will make fires with them for seven years.
Israel now gets even
with the invading Asiatics.
Eze
39:10 They
will not take wood from the
field nor cut down any
from the
forests, because they will make fires with the
weapons; and they will plunder
those who plundered them, and pillage those who
pillaged them," says the
Lord GOD.
Eze
39:11 "It
will come to pass in that
day that
I will give Gog a
burial place there in Israel, the valley of those
who pass by east of the sea;
and it will obstruct travelers, because there they
will bury Gog and all his
multitude. Therefore they will call it
the Valley
of Hamon Gog.
It takes Israel
7 months
to bury the dead of the Asiatics, 5/6 of the
army have perished.
Eze 39:12 For
seven months the house of Israel
will be burying them, in order to cleanse the
land.
Eze
39:13 Indeed
all the people of the land
will be burying, and they will gain renown for it
on the day that I am
glorified," says the Lord GOD.
Even after the
7
months of burials is past, the Israelites are still
searching for dead bodies
to bury. Men are doing this full time.
Eze 39:14 "They
will set apart men regularly employed,
with the help of a search party, to pass through
the land and bury those bodies
remaining on the ground, in order to cleanse it.
At the end of seven months
they will make a search.
Any visitor to
the land who sees a bone, must mark it for the
burial patrol.
Eze
39:15 The
search party will pass through
the land; and when anyone
sees
a man's bone, he shall set up a marker by it, till
the buriers have buried it
in the Valley of Hamon Gog.
Eze
39:16 The
name of the
city will also be
Hamonah. Thus they shall cleanse the land." '
God instructs
the
watchman to call in the beasts and the birds for the
sacrifice.
Eze
39:17 "And
as for you, son of man,
thus says the Lord GOD, 'Speak to every sort of
bird and to every beast of the
field: "Assemble yourselves and come; Gather
together from all sides to My
sacrificial meal Which I am sacrificing for you, A
great sacrificial meal on
the mountains of Israel, That you may eat flesh
and drink blood.
Eze
39:18 You
shall eat the flesh of the
mighty, Drink the blood of the princes of the
earth, Of rams and lambs, Of
goats and bulls, All of them fatlings of Bashan.
Eze
39:19 You
shall eat fat till you are
full, And drink blood till you are drunk, At My
sacrificial meal Which I am
sacrificing for you.
Eze
39:20 You
shall be filled at My table
With horses and riders, With mighty men And with
all the men of war," says
the Lord GOD.
God shows the
heathen His judgment.
Eze
39:21 "I
will set My glory among
the nations; all the nations shall see My judgment
which I have executed, and
My hand which I have laid on them.
Eze
39:22 So
the house of Israel
shall know that I am the
LORD their God from that day
forward.
Eze
39:23 The
Gentiles shall know that the
house of Israel went into captivity for their
iniquity; because they were
unfaithful to Me, therefore I hid My face from
them. I gave them into the hand
of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword.
Eze
39:24 According
to their uncleanness and
according to their transgressions I have dealt
with them, and hidden My face
from them." '
Eze
39:25 "Therefore
thus says the Lord
GOD: 'Now I will bring back the captives of Jacob,
and have mercy on the whole
house of Israel;
and I will be jealous for My holy name
Eze
39:26 after
they have borne their shame,
and all their unfaithfulness in which they were
unfaithful to Me, when they
dwelt safely in their own
land
and no one made them
afraid.
Eze
39:27 When
I have brought them back from
the peoples and gathered them out of their
enemies' lands, and I am hallowed in
them in the sight of many nations,
Israel have been
rescued from captivity, every
one of them.
Eze
39:28 then
they shall know that I am the
LORD their God, who sent them
into captivity among the nations, but also brought
them back to their land, and
left none of them captive any longer.
As we have
shown Israel
are kept safe and well fed during the Day
of the Lord in the Valley of Achor.
When the Day of
the Lord is over, Israel
return to their homelands and continue faithfully
toward God.
The Father has
given Israel
the earnest of the Spirit.
Eze
39:29 And
I will not hide My face from
them anymore; for I shall have poured out My
Spirit on the house of Israel,'
says the Lord GOD."
Israel do not
depart from the word of God.
Notice also
that
there will be a physical Israel
forever, during which time people will qualify to be
born into the God
family.
Isa
59:20 "The
Redeemer will come to Zion, And to
those who
turn from transgression in Jacob," Says the LORD.
Isa
59:21 "As
for Me," says the
LORD, "this is My
covenant
with them: My Spirit who is
upon you, and My words which I have put in your
mouth, shall not depart from
your mouth, nor from the mouth of your
descendants, nor from the mouth of your
descendants' descendants," says the LORD, "from
this time and
forevermore."
The Israelites
buy land and settle in the old places of Israel.
Jer
32:42 "For
thus says the LORD:
'Just as I have brought all this great calamity on
this people, so I will bring
on them all the good that I have promised them.
Jer
32:43 And
fields will be bought in this
land of which you say, "It is
desolate, without man or beast; it has been given
into the hand of the
Chaldeans."
Jer
32:44 Men
will buy fields for money,
sign deeds and seal them,
and
take witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, in the
places around Jerusalem, in the
cities of Judah, in the cities of the mountains,
in the cities of the lowland,
and in the cities of the South; for I will cause
their captives to return,'
says the LORD."
Israel will
suffer greatly during the time of Jacob’s trouble,
only 14 million surviving
this terrible time, however they repent and turn to
God forever and God the
Father marries them in the Valley of Achor.
They then return to their
original homelands.
God’s church is protected during the time of Jacob’s
trouble, but is martyred
prior to and during the Day of the Lord.
Persecution for them begins
before the Day of the Lord.
What a
wonderful
time is ahead for Israel.
After
Jacob’s trouble and the captivity they marry God the
Father.......can mere man describe the joy that
will bring?