#israel prophecy

[shirahchante]

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[andrewtheprophet]

More than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in the outer court: Revelation 11

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[girlactionfigure]

Prophetic Times

As predicted ?

[nochd]

I would absolutely want to read a post by you about Evangelicism and Israel.

I'll try. (This is a response to this post of mine, I assume, where I promised to write one if anyone asked.)

At the surface level, the situation isn't too hard to summarize. Evangelicals believe in the Bible; the Bible says Israel belongs to God. Anyone invading Israel, in the Bible, is one of the bad guys and liable to have entertainingly horrible things happen to them.

I'm not going to get into geopolitics-level stuff, because I don't know much about it, and because most Evangelicals don't know much about it. I'm talking about how the average praying, churchgoing, Bible-verse-memorizing, guilty-about-sex-feeling Evangelical looks at the issue, because no matter what sophistication might be brought to the table by an expert, it's the population average that swings elections and enforces social norms.

The trouble with the surface level reading is that it all it does is pass the explanatory buck. The Bible occupies a higher place in the hierarchy of sacred things for Evangelicals than for other Christians, but Evangelicals (for all they would insist the contrary) interpret it through a cultural-political schema and filter out the parts that don't fit just like everyone else. The question simply becomes: why do Evangelicals read the Bible like that?

So, why Israel? Well, I'll tell you up front, it's not out of concern for Jewish people. All Christian groups have a tendency to talk about Judaism in the past tense, because in Christian mythology Christ is the completion and perfection of God's plan for the Jews; but Evangelicals take the mythology more seriously than most.

This goes right to the heart of the Christian faith, to the central doctrine of salvation in Christ. Christians are saved by Christ's death on the Cross from the penalty of sin under the Old Law. What's the "Old Law"? Neither more nor less nor other than Judaism -- as interpreted by people who've never read any Jewish scripture except the Tanakh (which of course Christians, tellingly, call the "Old Testament"), and who think the only honest reading of that is their own.

At this point I need to reiterate the thing I kept saying over and over in the previous thread. It is generally agreed nowadays that religion doesn't live in the realm of facts, of statements that can be true or false. Rather, every religious belief is a matter of one's private personal experience. To people who haven't lived in very religious communities this seems like common sense; that's just what religion is.

Well, it's not. It's a cultural consensus, barely a century old, constructed for the purpose of preventing religious conflict. And the key thing you must always remember if you're trying to understand the Evangelical stance on anything, is that Evangelicals never signed up to that consensus. To Evangelicals, God is an actual person who exists in factual reality, and Israel belongs to him and whoever he chooses to rent it to.

There is no general agreement among Evangelicals as to how present-day Jews stand before God. At my church we tended to think of them kind of like Elves in Middle-Earth -- the first children of God, whose time has been and gone, but some linger still. I have a distinct memory of an Easter service where we had a Jewish man visit us to explain what Jesus would have eaten for the Last Supper; and I don't think it's a false memory, because I remember he told us about unleavened bread and bitter herbs and an egg, and I gather those are a real Passover thing.

But I have also seen much more negative attitudes; at the extreme, I have read an Evangelical book about the Rapture and how it would probably come in 1988, which included pages and pages of excerpts from The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and asserted that the Diary of Anne Frank was a fake.

Speaking of the Rapture, a confession: when I was an Evangelical teenager, End Times prophecy was one of my autistic special interests. But the End Times prophecy hacks who I thought of as experts didn't have a clear answer for what was to become of the Jews. God made a covenant with Abraham that his descendants would always be the chosen people, and though Christ was the true fulfillment of that covenant (in Christian doctrine generally, not just Evangelicalism), God wouldn't break his promises, would he?

I remember getting the vague impression that, at the Last Judgement after the Rapture, the Jews would rise from the grave with the rest of humanity and spontaneously recognise that Jesus had been their Messiah all along, whereupon those who accepted him would be welcomed with the Christians into the Kingdom of Heaven and those who did not would be consigned to the Lake of Fire with the rest of the unrepentant. But I stress that this was not an agreed-upon Evangelical doctrine.

Like the Bible itself, End Times prophecy (or "eschatology") is found in other branches of Christianity as well, but Evangelicalism makes more of it than others. Indeed to many Evangelicals the Bible is primarily a book about the End Times, and the End Times are (as they have been for centuries) even now upon us. Every war involving Russia or a Middle Eastern country is Gog and Magog. Every natural disaster is the beginning of the seven seals of Revelation.

The End Times are critical to the Evangelical worldview; they are the culmination of God's plan to clean up sin from the world and return it to the perfect state in which he created it. Evangelicals think of history in terms of what God was doing at any given time, and that means mostly the chronology that can be reconstructed from the Tanakh, then the events of the New Testament, then nothing important happened until the Protestant Reformation, then the Gospel was preached across the world and the state of Israel was re-established, and then some day soon, probably tomorrow, Jesus will take up his faithful to Heaven, then there will be seven years of suffering on Earth and then Jesus will come back and rule for a thousand years, after which Satan will try and break out of Hell one last time and Jesus will beat him and rule forever afterwards.

(The Crusades? The Inquisition? Persecution of Jews? Those were people doing bad things to other people and therefore, by definition, Not Real Christians and nothing to do with God and how dare you even think of such a connection. Man, the parallels to internet leftism just pile up.)

Now the Tanakh is the story of Israel, the Gospels take place entirely in what is today Israel, and many of the texts that Evangelicals read as End Times prophecies focus on Israel. Clearly Israel is important to God. Therefore, it has to be important to everyone who follows God.

The 24th chapter of the Gospel of Matthew is a key text here. Matthew 24 is a description of Titus's sack of Jerusalem in 70 CE, written during that event (as we know because the author thought the world was about to end), and backdated to put in Jesus' mouth as a prophecy. And to highlight the timing, the writer has Jesus say Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled (verse 34).

Now quite a lot of generations have in fact passed since that time, and so some other writer came along in the following century or two and added But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only (verse 36), to explain how Jesus came to get it wrong.

But Evangelicals are always on the lookout for signs that prove the End really is going to happen in our lifetimes, no really this time, this scripture here that no-one ever read this meaning into before proves it. And they've seized on Matthew 24:34 and taken it to mean "The whole fulfillment of End Times prophecy will happen in one generation's lifetime." And of course that has to mean our lifetime, because the process has already started.

Now there are Tanakh verses where God promises to return his people to their land and never scatter them again. Past generations of Christians have appropriated these passages to themselves as they do with so many others. Back during the British Mandate they were used by British-Israelites to bolster their claim to be descended from the Lost Tribes (since obviously God was on Britain's side in everything, and if he wasn't then even he couldn't oust the British Army).

But in 1948 suddenly the people of Israel really did return to the land of Israel. Since Israel is God's country, only God could have done this. It has to be a fulfillment of prophecy; the End Times have begun.

Presumably, when the very last person who was alive in 1948 dies in a few decades' time, Evangelicals will find another piece of scriptural evidence to show that no actually now Jesus is going to come back in our lifetime, and on it will go.

In summary: the modern state of Israel must be God's will because that's the best proof Evangelicals have that they will see the return of Jesus.

[lettersfromgod]

"Behold, all shall be moved from their places, that the eyes of the prideful might be opened and the ears of the arrogant unstopped, that all might repent and return to Me! Therefore watch! For the time has come for the will of God to be made manifest, for the earth to tremble and quake, to spew its fervent heat! Now is the time for signs in the heavens above and in the earth beneath, for the judgments of God to be poured out, for the wrath of God to fall from Heaven!

Therefore, come out from among them, And take refuge in Me…

For I am your only shelter, Your only sanctuary from the storm…

Says The Holy One of Israel."

📖 Excerpt from: https://www.thevolumesoftruth.com/The_Signs_of_the_Coming_of_The_Son_of_Man

▶ Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rktIJyyOElY&list=PLE8FlkxQPQkNhyk7QOplwIcW788ErwTRh&index=21

[eretzyisrael]

No Nukes

An October Surprise

[grace-of-spades1]

Reminder

let us pray for Florida that is struggling with hurricane Milton.

Let us pray for the people we know who are struggling spiritually, mentally, emotionally, physically

Let us pray for Israel and Palestine

Let us pray for the 2024 election

Let us pray for our brothers and sisters in Christ

Let us pray for the unbelief in the world and for those under the enemy's influence

God has a plan for us all

but in this time there is more and more evidence of Jesus's second coming.

Friends, let Him into your heart. I pray over you all. The rapture will not be pretty. Prophesies from Revelation and Matthew are coming true.

He is knocking, let Him in.

God bless

[trberman]

Responding to Michelle Grim and Life After Ministry's Post "LDS: Jesus Prophesied of Joseph Smith"

ABSTRACT: In a recent post on Life After Ministry, Michelle Grim critiques Joseph Smith’s prophetic role and foreordination in the Restoration of the Gospel, referencing biblical passages such as 2 Corinthians 11:13-14 and Matthew 24:24. Grim questions the validity of Joseph Smith’s prophetic claims, suggesting that Jesus’ warnings about false prophets apply to him. She challenges readers to…

[pippisevilthrallsummoningblog]

List of Bastards:

Elon Musk: See how he is up Trump's ass like a little hypeman? False prophet.

Pope Francis: Beast number one. See the shit with blinking pictures in the Vatican? See the big creature exorcised? False signs and wonders, fuck that shit!!!

Donald Trump: Beast number two. Deadly wound? Remember him being shot? Justice for the firefighter and the shooter, this was a ploy. See the McDonald's stunt? His greasy ass wouldn't last 5 seconds in fast food! I work so hard I have literal sciatic nerve damage in my legs and feet! I am half the size I was in June when I started! It makes me hate eating too! He's a fraud and is going to unleash that 2025 shit Hitler-style.

Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto: Suspected antichrist. He is supposedly performing miracles like Yeshua (Jesus) Christ did. That temple will take a bit til' he can sit his ass down unless he pulls some stunt. Remember the red heifers last year? Yeah, artificially bred, its all a fucking sham.

If this gets me killed, IDGAF. I punched death in the mouth on the way in and I think I missed a few teeth.

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

A Prophecy against Israel’s Shepherds

1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say to the shepherds, Thus saith the Lord God; O shepherds of Israel, do shepherds feed themselves? do not the shepherds feed the sheep? 3 Behold, ye feed on the milk, and clothe yourselves with the wool, and slay the fat: but ye feed not my sheep. 4 The weak one ye have not strengthened, and the sick ye have not cherished, and the bruised ye have not bound up, and the stray one ye have not turned back, and the lost ye have not sought; and the strong ye have wearied with labour. 5 And my sheep were scattered, because there were no shepherds: and they became meat to all the wild beasts of the field. 6 And my sheep were scattered on every mountain, and on every high hill: yea, they were scattered on the face of the earth, and there was none to seek them out, nor to bring them back.

7 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord. 8 As I live, saith the Lord God, surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became meat to all the wild beasts of the field, because there were no shepherds, and the shepherds sought not out my sheep, and the shepherds fed themselves, but fed not my sheep. 9 For this cause, O shepherds, 10 thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my sheep at their hands, and will turn them back that they shall not feed my sheep, and the shepherds shall no longer feed them; and I will deliver my sheep out of their mouth, and they shall no longer be meat for them.

The Good Shepherd

11 For thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will seek out my sheep, and will visit them. 12 As the shepherd seeks his flock, in the day when there is darkness and cloud, in the midst of the sheep that are separated: so will I seek out my sheep, and will bring them back from every place where they were scattered in the day of cloud and darkness. 13 And I will bring them out from the Gentiles, and will gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land, and will feed them upon the mountains of Israel, and in the valleys, and in every inhabited place of the land. 14 I will feed them in a good pasture, on a high mountain of Israel: and their folds shall be there, and they shall lie down, and there shall they rest in perfect prosperity, and they shall feed in a fat pasture on the mountains of Israel. 15 I will feed my sheep, and I will cause them to rest; and they shall know that I am the Lord: thus saith the Lord God. 16 I will seek that which is lost, and I will recover the stray one, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen the fainting, and will guard the strong, and will feed them with judgment.

17 And as for you, ye sheep, thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will distinguish between sheep and sheep, between rams and he-goats. 18 And is it not enough for you that ye fed on the good pasture, that ye trampled with your feet the remnant of your pasture? and that ye drank the standing water, that ye disturbed the residue with your feet? 19 So my sheep fed on that which ye had trampled with your feet; and they drank the water that had been disturbed by your feet.

20 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will separate between the strong sheep and the weak sheep. 21 Ye did thrust with your sides and shoulders, and pushed with your horns, and ye cruelly treated all the sick. 22 Therefore I will save my sheep, and they shall not be any more for a prey; and will judge between ram and ram.

23 And I will raise up one shepherd over them, and he shall tend them, even my servant David, and he shall be their shepherd; 24 and I the Lord will be to them a God, and David a prince in the midst of them; I the Lord have spoken it.

The Covenant of Peace

25 And I will make with David a covenant of peace and I will utterly destroy evil beasts from off the land; and they shall dwell in the wilderness, and sleep in the forests. 26 And I will settle them round about my mountain; and I will give you the rain, the rain of blessing. 27 And the trees that are in the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield her strength, and they shall dwell in the confidence of peace on their land, and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have broken their yoke; and I will deliver them out of the hand of those that enslaved them. 28 And they shall no more be a spoil to the nations, and the wild beasts of the land shall no more at all devour them; and they shall dwell safely, and there shall be none to make them afraid. 29 And I will raise up for them a plant of peace, and they shall no more perish with hunger upon the land, and they shall no more bear the reproach off the nations. 30 And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, and they my people. O house of Israel, saith the Lord God, 31 ye are my sheep, even the sheep of my flock, and I am the Lord your God, saith the Lord God. — Ezekiel 34 | Brenton's Septuagint Translation (BST) The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851). Cross References: Leviticus 26:5; Leviticus 26:13; Numbers 16:9; Deuteronomy 30:3; 1 Samuel 2:29-30; Psalm 23:1-2; Psalm 46:7; Psalm 72:12; Psalm 78:52; Psalm 147:3; Proverbs 25:26; Isaiah 4:2; Isaiah 55:3-4; Jeremiah 30:10; Ezekiel 22:25; Ezekiel 33:33; Matthew 9:36; Matthew 25:32; Mark 6:34; Luke 13:14; Luke 19:10; John 10:8-9; John 10:11; John 10:16; Acts 14:7; Acts 20:29; Revelation 7:17

[dustedcreationsblog]

If you're open minded enough to think/consider it, what's currently happening in Israel and all around the world with the natural disasters, wars and rumors of wars, persecutions etc. If you're wondering why everything is happening, all of this has been prophesized in the Holy Bible whether you believe in it or not, whether you believe in Jesus Christ/God or not. These things were and are made known to us (Christians), so yes while all the things happening are heartbreaking and anxiety inducing, we know that all this is taking place for the revelation of Christ Jesus. There might be other books mentioning these things happening, but in the context of who I am and Christianity I'm talking about the Holy Bible, I'm talking about Christ Jesus. I believe that all these occurances are part of the end times/last days, well some might say when is He coming? We have been told that for years. Hm, okay scoffer. What makes these days different, is the alignment of not only New Testament signs and occurances (which have been predicted to happen) which we're experiencing but Old Testament Scripture is also unfolding. We are told not to be in distress about this, but to look up because our redemption draws near. To look up because Jesus Christ is coming back, and that's the truth whether you acknowledge it or not. So, my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ, continue to do the will/work of God in truth and Spirit, in holiness and godliness. Continue to be bold, strong and firm in your faith as well as the Word of God. Continue to pray for everything and everybody, the Devil knows his time is running out. Look up, my brothers and sisters, LOOK UP 🙌🏼✝️🤍.

[andrewtheprophet]

Israeli airstrikes in the Outer Court have killed nearly 700: Revelation 11

Israel-Hamas war latest: Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon have killed nearly 700 this week Nearly 700 people been killed in Lebanon this week, according to Lebanon’s health ministry, as Israel dramatically escalated strikes, saying it is targeting Hezbollah’s military capacities. Over the past week, Israel has carried out several strikes in Beirut targeting senior Hezbollah commanders. Earlier in…

[on-going]

(Regarding The Day of Atonement)

Let this day be an offering of abstinence in purity to The Lord, a giving of thanks for your sins atoned for by The Messiah YahuShua; not atonement for your sins, of yourselves, but a free will offering in the name of The Lord your God and Him crucified, rejoicing in the anticipation of The Blessed Hope. And behold, He shall sit upon the throne of His glory and judge the nations. He shall utterly destroy all wickedness from this world, wiping away all that is sin and that which has led His people astray.

And that which was shut shall be opened, And that which was open shall be shut in that Day,  Says The Lord.

Wisdom Given to Timothy ✉️ https://www.thevolumesoftruth.com/Atonement For The Lord’s Little Flock, and For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear Regarding The Holy Days

*Also See ANSWERS ONLY GOD CAN GIVE - Regarding The Holy Days of God: https://answersonlygodcangive.com/Regarding_The_Holy_Days_of_God ▶️ *Regarding The Holy Days of God Video-Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSVchFJ22QYKKfZ5cAnLm_TxWABElLw7Z

[thelordismylightandmysalvation]

Verse of the Day - Micah 5:2

[lettersfromgod]

"Therefore, thus says The Lord: Tremble, O heavens! Shake, O earth! Let the seas rage and the mountains crumble before the coming of The Lord! Let the whole earth be bowed down before The Holy One of Israel, for My Kingdom comes!… Behold, The Almighty is coming down to you, yes, The Son who wears the full raiment of The Father. For in Him alone does the fullness of God dwell. Thus HE shall pluck you from the fire, HE shall scourge the nations with the Word of His power, and strike the wicked with the sword of His mouth. Yes, HE shall tread the grapes in the winepress of the wrath of My fury, wiping the wicked from existence, destroying all things which sicken His sheep and cause His flocks to go astray; behold, He shall utterly destroy all that offends!"

▶ Video (with voice over): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9PgRToHYKI&list=PLE8FlkxQPQkNhyk7QOplwIcW788ErwTRh&index=29

📖 Excerpt from: https://www.thevolumesoftruth.com/Watch

*Also see ANSWERS ONLY GOD CAN GIVE:

The Coming of The Lord: https://answersonlygodcangive.com/The_Coming_of_The_Lord

[news4dzhozhar]

But they call Muslims backwards and barbaric? They're literally trying to bring on the second coming by killing some "special" cows. You can't rationalize with people who don't see anything crazy about this entire archaic belief.