PEEP AROUND THE CORNER

Okay, the survival of the Jews is miraculous and the here and now is reasonably peaceful…for how long?

 

This temple the Jews want to build on Temple Mount – that’ll never see the light of day….will it?

You’ve heard of The Revelation? If we take a close look at that much argued-over book, we find chapters 4 thru 20 very Jewish. Even this temple that is yet to be built in Jerusalem is definitely up and in use by chapter 11…so yes, it will get out of the ground to see the light of day.

Then Israel’s peace and prosperity is not so certain after all?  

There’s a little verse in Ezekiel 21 that conveniently gets overlooked:

“I will overturn, overturn, overturn: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.”

Oh...so there won’t be lasting peace until the Messiah is recognised?                              
I wonder when the Jews will start to wake up to who Jesus Christ really is?

This what He said: “Then two shall be in the field, one is taken and one is left; two women grinding at the mill, one is taken (paralambano: receive near) and one is left (aphiemi: forsaken).”                        Matthew 24

Man, that sounds like that Rapture business!   
Meanwhile the Muslims aren’t going to take too kindly to a Jewish temple back on Temple Mount are they?                                                 

Remember we found that the return of the Jews to Palestine was actually a fulfillment in our lifetime of Ezekiel 36…so let’s read on…                             

Not only will the nation of Israel revive as it has, the divided tribes will be re-united and the kingdom will be re-established.                                        
However, we find there will be an invasion!...and no, this is not Armageddon.

Who will be the invaders? 

Persia (Iran), Ethiopia (Sudan) and Libya get a mention…

…that figures!...Muslim countries in the south, east and west!                            

Will anybody else be involved?...what about from the north?

How about a big player?...Russia!...maybe reluctantly.

Whoa! this is going to be a big shindig!...anyone else?

Togarmah - probably Turkey, and Gomer.

Gomer??  Whoever is that?

I’ll leave you to check that one out – take a look at Genesis 10 where you will find Noah had a grandson Gomer who then had 3 sons: Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah. Jews living in Germany or Poland have been known as Ashkenazi Jews. Will Germany, who has long had association with Turkey and is increasingly dependent on Russian gas, be dragged into this too?

So it will finally happen, hey?...the Muslims will invade Israel from every direction with the backing of Russia. You can even see this shaping up today!

Well it’s all there in Ezekiel and Joel, in incredible detail. Perhaps World War II was a dress rehearsal and it’s time to be reminded of this guy –

Here is Mohammed Effendi Amin el-Husseini, appointed by the British in 1921 as Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, giving the Nazi salute as he inspects a parade of German troops in his honour. This is what he said on Berlin Radio in 1942: “Kill the Jews – kill them with your hands, kill them with your teeth – this is well pleasing to Allah.”

It sure sounds like God is going to let the screws be put on Israel.

Yes, you’ll find this called ‘a time of trouble’ in Daniel 12, ‘the time of Jacob’s trouble’ in Jeremiah 30, and ‘the Tribulation’ in Matthew 24 and Mark 13.                             

All life on Earth would be wiped out if it wasn’t for the Jewish Messiah our Lord Jesus Christ returning in glory to establish His kingdom.

Acknowledgements: Wilkinson P. ‘For Zion’s Sake’, Paternoster 2007

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