Notice what happens if they, The Nation
Israel, does not obey the Lord.
Deuteronomy 28:15 But it shall come to pass, if thou
wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to
do all his commandments and his statues which I command thee this
day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt
thou be in the field. 17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land,
the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 19Cursed shalt
thou be when thou comest in, and when thou goest out. 20 The Lord
shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou
settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly;
because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken
me.
And it goes on for 68 more verses......all
of them curses. Throughout
the Old Testament the Nation Israel turned their back on the Lord,
over and over again. The would build groves and begin to worship idols
or other gods. Even when the Lord would destroy them, eventually he
would also restore them. If the leader of Israel
would turn the Nation back to the Lord, He would hear them, as when
in Egypt.
The Lord also delivered them out of Babylon.
But when the Nation Israel rejected God when he came unto them as
the Lord himself, God almighty turned his back on them as a NATION.
Jerusalem was destroyed
in A.D. 70 By Titus and the Roman army. They laid Jerusalem
to the ground and that was the end of the Nation Israel.
Today God has given the Gentiles a time
of salvation known as the Dispensation or period of Grace. The Nation
Israel exists in the eyes of the World and the United Nations... But
it is not the Restored Nation of Israel in the eyes of God. Before
the Nation of Israel can exist in God’s eyes, He must first restore
them... Think they are restored?? Do you really think God is blessing
Israel
today? Is he supernaturally protecting them? Is Israel
as a Nation turning back to God? Let’s have a look at a few scriptures.
When John the Baptist was in the wilderness
the word of the Lord came to him to preach into all the country of
Jordan.
4 As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet,
saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the
way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
7 Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized
of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the
wrath to come?
The people of that time were looking for
the one with the voice crying in the wilderness, who was to be Elijah,
had the Nation Israel accepted the Lord at that time. But they did
not so he will come in the future...
Malachi 3:1 Behold, I will send my messenger,
and he shall prepare the way before me: And the Lord, whom ye seek,
shall suddenly come to his temple, Mal. 4:5 Behold, I will send you
Elijah the prophet Before the great and dreadful day of the Lord:
6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, And
the heart of the children to their fathers, Lest I come and smite
the earth with a curse. Revelation 11:3 And I will give power unto
my two witnesses, and they shall prophecy a thousand two hundred and
threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. 4 these are the two olive trees,
and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. 5 And
if any man will hurt them, fire procedeth out of their mouth, and
devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in
this manner be killed. Notice the two olive trees. Olive trees represent
Israel.
This is Elijah and Moses. They have come to restore all things for
the Nation Israel. Notice the amount of time they will be on earth.
1260 days. 42 months. The tribulation is 7 years or 84 months. These
two witnesses will be here for half of that period. Then the antichrist
will kill them. Notice immediately after that in Rev. 12:1 And there
appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and
the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:
The Nation Israel. 5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron:
and her child was caught up to the throne.( Jesus. ) 6 And the woman fled into the wilderness,
where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her
there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
1260 days again, 42 months. 3 1/2 years, the last half of the
tribulation.(Israel)
After this the Lord will bring Israel
unto him and us to reign in the 1000 year millennium. The Lord will
protect them, these that are
in the wilderness. It is only a remnant. That will be the New Nation
Israel.
The Nation Israel is not yet, That is why the were nearly annihilated
in world war 2 by Hitler and his henchmen. It is also why everyone
that is bordering them are trying
to destroy them today. One day in the future Elijah will come
to restore them, until then , pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.
Do the work of an Evangelist.
Michael
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