Revelation 22
12 “And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work.
13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.”
14 Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city.
15 But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.
16 “I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”
17 And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.
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20 He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming quickly.” Amen.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
Too many believers do not understand the mercy of God, and his love for his creation. God loves all people.
Did he favor Israel?
No, he selected them to become a beacon of light, a holy people to draw other nations to his light, an example of goodness, justice, and love for others and for God Almighty.
Jacob son of Isaac, son of Abraham (the Hebrew), was renamed Israel. His descendants were called Israelites. His 12 sons were the 12 tribes of Israel.
God gave Moses the Law for the people of Israel, a nation of priests, so the world would recognize that when with God there are blessings and protection.
God enumerated the blessings but (Deuteronomy 28), should they not follow God's laws, the curses also.
After the Kingdom split, Israel was first to turn away from God. And their fate was destruction.
Less than 300 years later Judah followed in the footsteps of Israel. And they too were destroyed.
Did God give up on his people?
No, through Daniel, while he was in exile, God in all his mercy set up another chance for Israel:Daniel's 70 weeks prophecy or 490 years.
And as promised, Israelites and Judahites returned to their land.
The prophecy also announced to the year, the coming of the Messiah, and how he would be 'cut off' (killed)
Many Israelites recognized Christ Jesus as the Messiah after his death as it was prophesied in Daniel 9 and Isaiah 7, 9, and 53.
Unfortunately many refused Jesus as the Messiah. And there was the last chance for Israel.
When did it End?
Acts 7:55 But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God,
56 and said, “Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”
That event is what closed the 70 weeks, the last chance God gave to Israel.
Has God forgotten about his people?
No, They will be given another chance.
Ezekiel 38:6 Gomer and all its troops; the house of Togarmah from the far north and all its troops—many people are with you.
7 “Prepare yourself and be ready, you and all your companies that are gathered about you; and be a guard for them.
8 After many days you will be visited. In the latter years you will come into the land of those brought back from the sword and gathered from many people on the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate; they were brought out of the nations, and now all of them dwell safely.
9 You will ascend, coming like a storm, covering the land like a cloud, you and all your troops and many peoples with you.”
10 ‘Thus says the Lord God: “On that day it shall come to pass that thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will make an evil plan:
11 You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will go to a peaceful people, who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates’—
12 to take plunder and to take booty, to stretch out your hand against the waste places that are again inhabited, and against a people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land.
13 Sheba, Dedan, the merchants of Tarshish, and all their young lions will say to you, ‘Have you come to take plunder? Have you gathered your army to take booty, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plunder?’ ” ’
14 “Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “On that day when My people Israel dwell safely, will you not know it?
John 14:6 “I am the way, the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through Me.
7 “If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.”
Zechariah 12:10 “And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.
Zechariah 13:8 And it shall come to pass in all the land,” Says the Lord, “That two-thirds in it shall be cut off and die, But one-third shall be left in it:
9 I will bring the one-third through the fire, Will refine them as silver is refined, And test them as gold is tested. They will call on My name, And I will answer them. I will say, ‘This is My people’; And each one will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’ ”
Zechariah 14:1 Behold, the day of the Lord is coming, And your spoil will be divided in your midst.
2 For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem; The city shall be taken, The houses rifled, And the women ravished. Half of the city shall go into captivity, But the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Israelites will be given another chance just before Christ's return. When he will as promised set his feet on the Mount of Olives. (place he departed from)
"And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, Which faces Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two,"
God has set aside 144,000 Israelites and descendants of Israelites (Revelation 7 and 14). We don't know yet what their purpose is.
What we do know is that they worship Jesus Christ.
Some say they are his army. Others say they are those who will guide and defend Christians against the forces of darkness...
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