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Israel & Jerusalem: Focus on the
Prophecies
Israel's
beloved city Jerusalem is the center of Jewish thought and religion. Its development over the
years—culturally, socially, archaeologically—is a marvel to
behold.
More importantly, it is the city in which Messiah walked and taught
during His visitation to earth, and it remains the central focus of
prophecy and final events.
After
many centuries of Jewish struggle with no place to call home since the
dispersion in 70 A.D., in May, 1948, Israel became a nation once again. However,
for nineteen years, from 1948 to 1967,
Jerusalem
was a divided city.
East Jerusalem
, including the Old
City, had been occupied by the Arab Legion of Jordan since the War of
Independence. The Jordanian troops had decimated the Jewish Quarter of the Old
City, blowing up its synagogues and destroying every vestige of Jewish life
there. Jewish gravestones on the
Mount of Olives
had been used to pave roads and build latrines.
Although they promised access to the Western Wall, Jordan
had not allowed any Jews to pray at this remnant of the wall that had once
surrounded the ancient Temple.
Western Jerusalem, on the other hand, was controlled by Israel
and had greatly expanded during this period.
Barbed wire, minefields, and concrete walls protecting Jews from
Jordanian snipers cut through the heart of Jerusalem from north to south.
The
Six-Day War would end all of that, reuniting the Holy
City once again. On
June 5, 1967, the Six-Day War began, and through God’s miraculous intervention, by the
end of the third day on June 7, 1967, the Western Wall was recaptured. Israeli
troops stood gazing at the Western Wall, wondering if they should dance,
pray, or cry. They did all
three!
“The
eagerly awaited command to take the Old City
was given at sunrise on the third day of the war,
7 June 1967. The Command assigned this task to the paratroopers, who started with an
attack on the Augusta-Victoria hills and the
Mount of Olives, overlooking the Old City. After firing in the direction of the breakthrough path, the Lions Gate,
the force from the east advanced forward very quickly and broke through
into the Old
City. The paratroopers ran towards the Dome of the Rock, located next to the
last remains of the Temple, the Western Wall, where, in the presence of
the sector commander and the deputy head of the armed services, General
Rabbi Shlomo Goren, the chief chaplain of the IDF blew a long blow on the
rams horn, announcing the release of the Western Wall and the Old City of
Jerusalem. Jerusalem, the divided and split capital of Israel, was
reunited,” IDF (Israel
Defense Forces) Website.
The
Jerusalem Post headline on
June 6, 1967, during the Six-Day War read, AIR FORCE WINS SUPREMACY AS ARMY DRIVES
EGYPTIANS BACK INTO SINAI AND GAZA. There
is no doubt the Holy One of Israel
intervened to push back the powerful Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian
forces. Israel’s victory was extremely devastating to the Arabs, who expected victory.
In six days the Arab forces lost almost their entire air forces and
much of their armed weaponry. In
all, 11,000 Egyptians were killed, Jordan
lost about 6,000, and Syria
lost about 1,000. Israel, on the other hand, lost only about 700 fighters.
Although
Jerusalem
with her holy sites was the central prize, Israel
also captured in those six miraculous days of 1967 the Golan Heights, Sinai, the Gaza Strip, and the
West Bank. The ancient towns of
Shechem,
Shiloh, Bethel, Bethlehem, and Hebron
were now within Israel’s borders. By
June 11, 1967, the Jerusalem Post headline read—200,000 AT WESTERN WALL IN FIRST
PILGRIMAGE SINCE DISPERSION.
In
1967, the fortunes of Jerusalem
were restored as prophesied by the prophet Joel.
He wrote, “In those days and at that time, when I restore
the
fortunes of Judah
and Jerusalem, I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley
of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning My inheritance,
My people
Israel, for they scattered My people among the nations and divided up My land,”
(Joel
3:1-2). The first part of
Joel’s prediction became reality during the Six-Day War, when Elohim
restored many cities and holy sites in Jerusalem
to the Jews. The once divided city was reunited, and the Western Wall was
once again under Jewish control. Forty
years later, the gathering of all nations is gaining momentum, when the
magnificent work of God will be displayed with speed and finality.
Almighty
God designed His final work on Planet Earth to include divine dates of
disaster and deliverance, connected in time and place to the pattern of His annual
Festivals. The Kingdom Calendar shows this
correlation in very clear lines.
In
the last days, Jerusalem
will endure turmoil, tragedy and destruction.
The area surrounding Jerusalem’s Temple
Mount will be under the control of Gentile armies for a period of 42 months (1,260
days—Revelation
11:1-2; Point 9). As
Balak and Balaam had temporary control over Israel’s fate by 42 sacrifices (Numbers, chapter 22-24), likewise, Satan and
Antichrist will gain transitory control over Israel
through 42 sacrificial months.
We
are advised to study Jerusalem’s final time prophecy related to the three and one-half years. “Know
and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild
Jerusalem [Point 13] until the anointed one, the ruler [Elijah], comes
[Point 16], there will be seven ‘sevens’ [49 days], and sixty-two
‘sevens’ [434 days]. It [
Jerusalem
] will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in [the appointed] times of
trouble,” (Daniel
9:25).
Almighty
God has revealed His omniscient power time and again by predicting future
rulers, decrees and dates. Only
the Holy One of Israel could have designed the numbered days thousands of
years in advance, and set into motion His redemptive plan.
The Kingdom Calendar, illuminating God’s
remarkable alignment of timelines and God’s Festival dates, proves that we
are nearing final events.
The great prophet Isaiah was instructed to go and warn stubborn Israel, “Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never
perceiving. Make the heart of this people calloused; make their ears dull
and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with
their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed,” (Isaiah
6:9-10). This warning applies
today to Jew and Gentile alike. May
YHVH open our eyes and minds to the lessons of history, which are examples
of things to come!
The
70 Week prophecy represents God’s last days of mercy towards Israel
and the city of Jerusalem. Yeshua warned the generation
of His day, “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you
hypocrites!… you say, If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we
would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets…
Therefore, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them
you will kill and crucify, others you will flog in your synagogues and
pursue from town to town… O Jerusalem,
Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have
longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under
her wings, but you were not willing. Look,
your house is left to you desolate. For
I tell you, you will not see Me again until you say, Blessed is He who comes
in the name of the LORD,” (Matthew
23:29-39). Within 40 years,
Jerusalem
was ransacked and burned, and the Jews scattered across the globe.
During
the many centuries that followed in the Diaspora, Jews had no country to
call their own; nevertheless, Hashem heard their many cries.
“Let this be written for a future generation, that a people not yet
created may praise the LORD; The LORD looked down from His sanctuary on
high, from Heaven He viewed the earth, to hear the groans of the prisoners
and release those condemned to death,” (Psalms
102:19-20).
El Shaddai heard the cries of Jacob from Hitler’s prisons and gas
chambers, and out of the holocaust He gave birth to the final generation.
Seven
is the number of perfection and completion, and themes of sevens are found
throughout the Scriptures. Peter
asked Jesus (Matthew
18:21), “how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up
to seven times?” The Messiah
enlarged Peter’s thinking when He responded that the brethren be forgiven
“seventy times seven” [490 times] (Matthew
18:22, KJV). Jesus likely had the
“seventy ‘sevens’ [490 days]” prophecy of Daniel
9:24
-27 in mind. During the last 490
days of
Israel’s history as a nation, God’s mercy will continue day after day even
while Judaism is compromising with Antichrist and his spurious religion.
For many years, the Vatican
has called for Jerusalem
to become a “corpus separatum,” or “internationalized city,” open to
people of all faiths, in order to remove it as a political capital for any
nation. One day Antichrist will
walk onto the Temple
Mount for his own glory, while the prophecies warn and God’s prophets condemn
his detestable act.
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"There
will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first
for the Jew, then for the Gentile," Romans 2:9
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