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About Jesus Steve Sweetman The Politics of God And The Bible Part 14 In Deuteronomy 4 Israel
was about to enter the promised land.
In verses 25 and following God told them, "after
you
have lived in the land a long time and if you become corrupt
I
call heaven and earth as witnesses against you
you will quickly
perish from the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess
the Lord
will scatter you among the peoples.
When you are in distress
in the later days you will return to
the Lord your God
He will not forget the covenant He made with your
forefathers". Israel
did become corrupt, and in 70 A. D. Israelis were scattered among the
peoples of the world as God warned.
Deuteronomy 29:64 and following says "the Lord will scatter
you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other.
There among the nations you will find no repose, no resting
place
" An important
date in Israel's history is 70 A. D.. This
is the only time in Israel
was never meant to live apart from their land and their God forever.
Ezekiel 34:13 says, "I will bring them out from the nations
and gather them from the countries, and I will bring them into their own
land". In 70 A. D. God
scattered Israelis into all the nations of the world.
Not understanding the real reason for their return to Israel, God has been bringing Israeli's back to their own land for the last
number of decades. Isaiah 66:8 asks,
"can a country be born in a day or a nation be brought forth in a
moment"? The answer is
an emphatic "yes". On
May 14, 1948, the nation of Israel
was born again in a natural sense. Most
Jews don't understand the Biblical significance of Israel's new birth and their return to the land.
Obviously most world leaders don't understand this either.
God Himself is the motivator behind Jews returning to their land. Getting the Jews back to
their homeland is only the beginning of God's plan.
His ultimate goal is to bring Israel
back to Himself once they are in their land.
As the apostle Paul states in 1 Corinthians 15:46, "first
comes the natural and then the spiritual".
This spiritual revival will be accomplished after much distress
imposed on When Once Israelis return to
their land, Amos 9:15 becomes important. It
reads, "I will plant Israel
in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land I have given
them". It's simple.
God has already planted Israel
in her own land. That means
they will never be kicked out again.
The only thing left is the final great war, Israel's salvation, and the end of this age.
Concerning the attacking
nations and the last battle, Zechariah 14:13 states that once the battle
is over, those who actually survive from the attacking nations, will
fall under the authority and rule of the Lord Jesus Christ.
This tells us that there will be people from this age living in
the thousand year rule of Christ on earth.
I believe we're near the
end. I picture Jesus as
having just risen from His throne. He
is standing with hands stretched out, ready to receive the all important
scroll of Revelation 6. Once
the scroll is in His hands, He will open its seals.
Then watch out. When
CNN announces "breaking news", that will be the biggest
understatement in human history.
Many Christians have a
poor mental image of Jesus. They
tend to picture Him as a quiet peaceful man walking the dusty roads of
It's
something few of us like, but war is a fact of life when it comes to the
human condition. This
passage in Revelation doesn't portray the mild mannered Jesus who kicked
the stones under his feet as He walked the shores of the
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