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Yet it does not encompass the promised land.
We're all rebelious to some degree... not an excuse, just a reality.Yet it does not encompass the promised land.
It acts in rebellion of God.
So I do not believe that it IS the Israel we are waiting for.
We're all rebelious to some degree... not an excuse, just a reality.
The apostles all thought THEY were close to the return.Well I'll tell you what. The Israel that exists now exists because of God. The war going on there? It's prophetic. Why would modern Israel not be the one of prophecy? We are so close to Jesus return it's not even funny!
The main reason why the modern state is there is because of British Pro-Zionists. Not the Jews themselves. They were quite happy being where they were until Anti-Semitism made it hard for them.At least 3 places in scripture - God prophesied that Unfaithful Israel would be regathered...
I would say that what is going on fits this.....
It's not like Jews are just congregating in Israel because they think it's FUN and exciting and they have Imperial, nation building Aspirations... Notice that the current Israel did not form because of Jews clamoring by themselves for a nation of Israel - they were VOMITED OUT of Europe and other nations during WWI and WWII and since..... Forcibly DRIVEN OUT against their own will... This is VERY different than previous attempts at re-starting Israel - where groups of Jews willfully organized and left areas with the goal of TAKING the "Holy Land" for themselves.....
They were GIVEN a land by Others - expressly so those other countries could EXPEL Jews to somewhere else...... England was happy to send the majority of their Jews to Israel to get rid of them.... MILLIONS of Russian Jews have been literally vomited out of Russia....
To me... It's got the hand of God all over it.... and it's CLEARLY different from the last times....
Am I sure? Yeah. Why? Islam fits pefectly the description of the beast.The apostles all thought THEY were close to the return.
In the Middle Ages during all the plagues and wars THEY thought they were close to the return.
Many have thought the end was nigh. But they died without the return happening.
Are you so sure? Or are you just hoping? And if hoping why?
Why would I not be hoping?
1 Thessalonians 2:19 (KJV)Because it is selfish and unloving to want to hasten the return of The King and condemn many to death eternal because of your desire to see the new heaven and earth.
Spare all that can be spared.
Let The King come in his own time by his own will not mine. He is not my servant, he is my sovereign.