Israel in Prophecy - the Series

Much of Christianity and all of Judaism anticipates the endtime recovery of Israel from the north country and the far corners of the world. This recovery will eclipse the exodus from Egypt in importance. But why? How can a very small country wedged between once powerful but now second-nation neighbors influence the affairs of humanity? The answer is in prophecy.

Who Is Israel?	To narrowly restrict Israel as identifying only the birth descendants of the northern kingdom contradicts Scripture.
Who Is Israel? Part 2	The Israel of prophecy will return to the land of the nation's nativity, but not before suffering severely for its lawlessness. The Israel of prophecy is the holy nation of God - the Church. His eyes are continually on this nation.
Who Is Israel? Part 3	The fate of Israel hung on whether Solomon, the wisest man who has ever lived, kept the commandments and statutes set before him.
Who Is Israel? Part 4	This day, when the Jerusalem above relocates to the Jerusalem below, will also include the resurrection of the saints.
Who Is Israel? Part 5	Christ Jesus did to the greater Church exactly what the Apostle Paul commanded that the saints at Corinth do with the one who had his father’s wife (1 Cor 5:1-13). This was what the Logos did with the physically circumcised nation. As such, the Lord is consistent in His methodology. Satan is useful in destroying the flesh, in revealing the sinfulness of sin.
Who Is Israel? Part 6	Because saints as the Body of the Son of Man cannot receive power until Babylon falls, and because saints are liberated from lawlessness through empowerment by the Holy Spirit at the beginning of the seven endtime years of tribulation, saints must necessarily be delivered into the hand of the man of perdition for a time, times, and half a time (again, Dan 7:25). With empowerment, saints are no longer under bondage to the law of sin that presently dwells in their members (Rom 7:25). They will have complete power over the flesh in a foretaste to glorification. Thus, they are placed in subjection to a man of sin, to an outside power that they must overcome.
Who Is Israel? Part 7	Traditionally, Daniel’s interpretation has been read to mean that the course of secular history was followed as the series of metals replaced one another: Babylon succumbed to the Medes and Persians, who were defeated by Alexander the Great. But here problems enter. The usual assignment of meaning has Rome then defeating the Greeks, which they did. Then the traditional interpretation has Rome dividing into two legs, which, again, Rome did during the reign of Emperor Constantine, centuries after defeating the Greeks. But Daniel’s interpretation doesn’t support this scenario. The division of the image was in its bronze portion, with the thighs or loins, the heaviest part of the legs being bronze. So the usual Protestant or Arian interpretation is, frankly, dishonest with the text. And those pundits who teach this tradition are false prophets, deceitful, and carnally or naturally minded. They are without spiritual understanding and should be avoided.
Who Is Israel? Part 8	When the Son of Man is revealed, the legalism of present day Islam will be exploited by legalistic Arian Christianity, for the largest Arian denomination has positioned itself to leverage food into discipleship - Arian denominations are those that hold the error of Bishop Arius, who taught that Jesus was a created being. Those who hold this error place the creation of Jesus as early as Jesus (as the Logos) being the brother of Lucifer and Michael to as late as Jesus being created in the womb of Mary. So it will not be difficult for the false prophet, a demon given the mind and heart of a man, with "miracles" to convince Muslims that Jesus is more than a prophet, born of God to the woman Mary, especially after their firstborns have been ransomed for the liberation of Christians from bondage to sin.
Who Is Israel? Part 9	The Judean hill country is the visible representation (or shadow) of God’s rest, which is ultimately glorification in the heavenly realm, and this hill country produced two grain harvests. Judgment is today on the household of God (1 Pet 4:17), with judgment of those who are not of this household to occur in the great White Throne Judgment. Thus, all of humanity will be of either the barley harvest or of the wheat harvest, except for those human beings represented by the olive and grape harvests. As the grains are ground into fine flour before being offered to God, olives and grapes are pressed and crushed before being offered. But they are refined on-site (i.e., where they are grown), not at a communal gristmill. What’s heard when the black horse appears is grain (before being ground into flour) being priced for sale, with instructions not to harm the refined oil and wine. The grain represents both the early and later harvest of the Judean hill country. Thus, without making too large of a logical leap, it can be said that the third horseman weighs all of spiritually unrefined humanity.

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