Headless Man
TODAY, AS YOU ARE READING THIS, MOST OF THE BIBLE'S MANY PROPHECIES HAVE ALREADY BEEN FULFILLED. THESE FORETOLD ALL OF THE VARIOUS DISPERSIONS AND EARLY REGATHERINGS OF ISRAEL BACK INTO THEIR PROMISED LAND, THE 333 DETAILS OF THE MESSIAH'S FIRST APPEARANCE AS THE LAMB OF GOD, THE DESTRUCTION OF THE JERUSALEM TEMPLE, THE MORE THAN 1,900-YEAR SCATTERING OF THE JEWS TO ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD, AND FINALLY THEIR REGATHERING IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY CLIMAXED BY THE NATION'S RESURRECTION AS MODERN ISRAEL IN 1948--THESE ARE ALL UNCONTESTABLE FACTS OF THE HISTORICAL RECORD.
http://www.lasthour.com/GOG-MAGOG.htm
How do you feel about this statement.
7 Answers
Mitchell
Personally, I don't believe that literal Israel or Israelites have much if anything to do with Biblical prophecy after the destruction of Jerusalem.
All of the current and future promises and prophecies concerning Israel are for spiritual Israel. Christendom is making a mistake in looking to Israel and don't be surprised, Israel had many prophecies concerning Christ, yet they knew Him not at His appearing.
| 13 years ago. Rating: 4 | |
are not for what man considers Israel, but for whom God considers Israel. "For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly,..., but he is a jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart;..., whose praise is not of men but from God.
How will read the right direction, if we are looking at the wrong map?
Btw, Leeroy, I was just wondering where you got the idea that if the Jews would have accepted Jesus, the rest of the world would not have had the chance to be saved? In my understanding if the Jews would have accepted Jesus, they would have gone out as ministers as a nation, to increase the chances of salvation. Exactly why they kept failing in the O.T. was because God wanted them as a witness of His salvation, but they continued in their backsliding. Today the Temple of God resides in one place, and it will never again be constrained to a building. It is in the heart of the faithful.
<a href="/users/6493/mitchell/">@Mitchell</a>, I understand where you are going in thought, yet as a Christian we are covered as extended family under Abraham's covenant, the Bible also says if you support Israel I will bless you. Again there is a verse that says God allowed the Jews to be blinded to Jesus the Messiah, yet he re established them as a Nation. If they would have excepted Jesus, the rest of the world would not have had the chance to be saved.
I know that Loyalty is an attribute of God and he says,"He will never leave us or forsake us. Don't you think that God still loves and cares for His people the Jews?
daren1
Let me call a spade a spade. Israel is only significant because Christians make her significant. I'm not anti-Semitic. Unlike most of the West, I just don't have a bias for Israel, a bias based upon a false understanding of Biblical prophecy. I don't have anything against Israel either, but I see the extraordinary prejudice in her favor all based upon a misunderstanding of who or what constitutes Israel in the present and future.
| 13 years ago. Rating: 2 | |
watchman
| 13 years ago. Rating: 2 | |
doublehelix
I believe their will be wars and rumors of wars in the Middle East and in many other place before the time of tribulation. But I do not believe in the battle of Armageddon or Gog and Magog as wars between nations of men. The problem when you take that position is that every upheaval over there gives you confidence in your position, enables you or the US or Nato or the UN or the West to take a stand on who's side they are on, it also distracts from the real battle that is going on and this is important: Eph 6:11-13 "Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand."
| 13 years ago. Rating: 1 | |
I don't have time to give a descent answer right now. I am familiar with this understanding, would like the opportunity to explain why I don't think it is a correct understanding.
eggplant
I did a study on who constitutes Israel. I don't have time to look for it right now, but my conclusion was that God's literal Israel is not man's literal Israel. When Jesus said, "This day your house is left unto you desolate," He was speaking to Israel as a nation, not to individual Israelis. Today anyone can be an Israelite, not by birth, Paul says, " For they are not all Israel who are of Israel, nor are they children because they are seed of Abraham." So yes there is hope on an individual level, the same hope there exists for everyone. The prophecies remaining for the elect of God