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The Jews in Coming to Rabbi Jesus of Nazareth will then Fulfill Many National Prophecies.

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The first return to Palestine began in the time of Zerubbabel.

This was about 538 BC. Most agree that this was the first return of the Jews to Palestine and was prophesied by many prophets. But there were other things also.

To be released Friday, November 6, 2020, Jewish Chronicles is a spiritual history of the Jews. It tells how they came to reject their own Messiah, Rabbi Jesus of Nazareth, how this has affected their history, and how they will finally turn to Rabbi Jesus in faith. This will lead to astonishing changes in world history.

Isaiah 14 talks of a return of the Jews to their own land. This was written before they had lost their land. First Isaiah pictures many gentiles becoming Jews.

“For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the foreigner shall join himself with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.”
Isa 14:1

Of course there have been many converts to Judaism, down through history. In New Testament times there was the mass conversion of the Turkish Khazars in the eight century AD, which gave the modern Jews much of their “gentile” blood. Aside from this, though, no mass cleaving of gentiles to “Jacob” has been noticed. Then Isaiah says, before they went into captivity.

“2 The peoples shall take them, and bring them to their place; and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of Yahweh for servants and for handmaids: and they shall take them captive whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.”
Isa 14:2

This seems to be the context of the foreigners cleaving to Jacob in the previous verse. As has been pointed out, the Jews did return to Palestine beginning in 538 BC. However, the foreigners did NOT bring them to Palestine, as picture in Isa 14:2. The Persians under Cyrus merely allowed them to return back home. Also the Persians never were taken captive by the Jews, and the Jews NEVER “ruled over their oppressors,” that is to say, the Assyrians and Babylonians. So what is this? A failed prophecy? Or does it not speak of the first return which began in 538 BC, but of a second return such as is spoke of Isaiah 11 and Zechariah 10 and other passages.

Micah goes further and says of Jacob,

“They will rule the land of Assyria with the sword,
And the land of Nimrod in its gates.
He will deliver us from the Assyrian,
When he invades our land,
And when he marches within our border.”
Mic 5:6

Jacob/Israel will rule over Assyria? With the sword? This does NOT picture a spiritual rule of the Jews. This would mean that one day Israel would not only rule present day Syria (which is before you could get to Assyria/modern day Iraq), but also Iraq and more. There are a few of Assyrian descent even to this very day. Many of them became Christians in the early centuries of the Christian age, which is also forecast by Isaiah in other passages. So this pictures an hegemony over the Mid-East by Israel. Well it has not happened yet!

Clearly there are many national prophecies of Israel which have not happened yet.

The premillenialists have also noted many of these prophecies, and in many of these particulars are quite correct.

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The Jewish Nation Turns to Rabbi Jesus of Nazareth, Part 3 of 5

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The New Testament also points to the Jews repenting and turning to their own Messiah. The “times of the Gentiles” will come to an end. During a time of severe persecution on first Christians, and then on Jews, the Jews will turn to their own Messiah, Rabbi Jesus of Nazareth.

Further details are discussed in Jewish Chronicles, which will be released November 6, 2020.

The Jewish Nation Turns to Rabbi Jesus of Nazareth, Part 2 of 5

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Because of their sins, the Jews lost the Vineyard of God’s people to the gentiles. However, Moses Law says that one day all of this will change, and GOD will circumcise the hearts of the Jews and their descendants.

Further details are discussed in Jewish Chronicles, which will be released November 6, 2020.

The Jews Coming to Rabbi Jesus of Nazareth Will be in a Time of Great Stress

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Destruction is determined for the Jews

“When you are in distress, and all these things are come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God, and listen to his voice:”
Deut 4:30 nf

“For though your people, Israel, be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them shall return: a destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.”
Isa 10:22 WEB

Many destructions have pursued the Jews, but one that overflows with righteousness is yet to come.

Zechariah says two-thirds of the Jews will perish

Zechariah speaks about when sin will be purged from Israel. Zechariah says,

“It shall happen that in all the land,” says Yahweh,
Two parts in it will be cut off and die;
But the third will be left in it. ”
Zech 13:8 WEB

That hasn’t happened yet! This is evidently after the first regathering of Israel, in the time of Ezra when Zechariah was prophesying (around 520 BC). And it is after the second scattering of Israel in 70 AD, and the second regathering which is going on in our times, for Zechariah says.

“I will scatter them among the peoples;
And they will remember me in far countries;
And they will live with their children, and will return. ”
Zech 10:9 nf

But there is a difference when this destruction overflowing with righteousness happens, when evidently it is two-thirds of the Jews who die world-wide. Of the third that is left it says,

God will refine that third that is left

“I will bring the third part into the fire,
And will refine them as silver is refined,
And will test them like gold is tested.
They will call on my name, and I will hear them.
I will say, ‘It is my people;’
And they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’””
Zech 10:9 WEB

My big surprise in writing “Jewish Chronicles.”

Huge destructions await the Jews, bigger than 70 AD, bigger than the Holocaust, which will cause the Jews to reassess their situation. It will begin with severe persecution of Christians, world-wide. Jewish Chronicles will be available from your bookseller Friday, November 6, 2020.

My big surprise in researching was to discover that this time stress on the Jews begins with a world-wide severe persecution of Christians, described in Zechariah 12. It will be the Jewish survivors of the time of great stress who will make the big difference world-wide!

They are called “all the families which remain,” in Zech 12:14. Jeremiah says it is the people who were “left.”

“Thus says Yahweh, The people who were left of the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest”
Jer 31:2

They are called those who escape in Isaiah 66.

“I will set a sign among them, and I will send such as escape of them to the nations, … who have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.”
Isa 66:19

The Jews will lead the completion of the Great Commission of preaching the gospel to the entire world.

“This gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.”
Mtt 24:14

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The Jews Coming to Rabbi Jesus of Nazareth: The Times of Gentiles will come to an End.

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The Old Testament says that if the Jews were faithful to God, and His Christ, they would be first among the nations.

“It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, who Yahweh your God will set you on high above ALL the nations of the earth:”
Deut 28:1 WEB

Also it was clear that if Israel was not faithful to the Lord their God, that the Jews would be dominated by the gentiles, the nations of the world, Deut 28:15ff, 36-65, etc.

Moses made it clear that Israel was NOT faithful!

“They have dealt corruptly with him, they are not his children, it is their blemish;
They are a perverse and crooked generation.”
Deut 32:5 WEB

When Israel rejected their own Messiah, they were only doing what was anticipated by God and all their prophets. So Jesus said,

“ 32 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers. 33 You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Hell?”
Mtt 23:32 nf

Jesus prophesied the destruction of
Jerusalem and its domination by
the nations for generations.

Jewish Chronicles shows how Jewish history has developed spiritually, and where these things will lead. Available from your book seller, Friday November 6, 2020.

This is discussed in several gospel passages. Jesus says that when they see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, that they will know its desolation is near, Lk 21:20. The Christians did know that, and escaped the siege some forty years later. Then Jesus points to the horrors of those days and also a distant turnaround among the Jews.

“They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, UNTIL the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.”
Lk 21:24 WEB

So there WILL BE a time in the future when domination by the gentiles, that is to say the nations of the world, will end.

So what is the purpose In these things?

The answer is given in Romans chapters 9-11. However you can read tens of thousands of pages of commentary and never notice the clear answer and summary. Paul has talked in detail about the wickedness and unbelief of his fellow Jews. He cautions us gentiles, especially in Romans 11 to not be arrogant against the Jews. They are the natural olive tree into which we as gentiles (the nations) as wild olive branches have been grafted, Rom 11:17-22. Paul tells us of the Jews,

“They also, if they don’t continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. ”
Rom 11:23 WEB

We should not be ignorant Paul says

“… that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in, 26 and so all Israel will be saved. …”
Rom 11:25-26 WEB

He is contrasting physical Israel with the gentiles.

“Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?”
Rom 11:12

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nf is my own translation based on the WEB.

The Jews Coming to Rabbi Jesus of Nazareth: The New Testament Points to their Conversion.

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The grand point of the New Covenant is one mercy and grace to ALL. That is literally ALL, both Jews and gentiles, that is to say all of the nations of this world. Even so, it is a powerful sub point that the Jews should have priority, that

The Jews should have priority in the
preaching of the gospel !

Jesus did not come to destroy Moses’ law., Mtt 5:17.

“For most assuredly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.”
Mtt 5:18

So a special prophet was to come who come who is like, Moses, whom everyone has to listen to, Deut 18:15. And like Moses? One of the most prominent things is He would be one who speaks to God face to face (Ex 33:11, etc.) and who delivers God’s laws.

So what was Jesus agenda?

He told the Canaanite woman,

“I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
Mtt 15:24

When Jesus named His twelve apostles in Matthew 10, and sent them out on the limited commission, the emphasis was to be in saving the Jews, and indeed, to not go to ANYONE else. He gave them authority over unclean spirits and every disease (and this group included Judas), and told them,

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5 … “Don’t go among the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans. 6 Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 7 As you go, preach, saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’”
Mtt 10:5-7

For sure that was so, unless you want to maintain that Jesus badly misunderstood the situation. He clearly knew early in His ministry to the Jews would reject Him (Jn 2:19-22). This was not a surprise. Even so God said,

“It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.”
Deut 18:19

So Jesus told this apostles on this first mission of those who would reject the words He was sending,

“Most assuredly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.”
Mtt 10:15

All through history, Jesus has wanted to unite
the Jews and give them the victory.

Jesus spoke of what He will do during the Christian age in sending the messenger whom they would kill and crucify, Mtt 23:32-35. Jesus mourned their hardness of heart.

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!”
Mtt 23:37

Still Jesus pointed to better days.

“For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’”
Mtt 23:39

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The Jews Coming to Jesus of Nazareth: The Old Testament Points to their Conversion

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The Jews as a nation have been very corrupt throughout history. Both many nations, and also the prophets of God have called the Jews a perverse people. Moses said,

“They have dealt corruptly with him, they are not his children, it is their blemish;
They are a perverse and crooked generation.”
Deut 32:5

This has been an ongoing situation, beginning in early Old Testament times and going on to this very day, as is documented in detail in my new book, Jewish Chronicles, which is scheduled for release in this year. But this situation, of Jewish rejection of God and often of ALL authority is going to change.

Moses Law says the Jews will change to walk in righteousness and peace

These things are discussed in detail in my upcoming book. To be released Friday November 6, 2020, Jewish Chronicles, $19.95, 350 pages, illustrated, outlines the spiritual history of the Jew. See your bookseller.

One of the key issues is circumcision, not of the flesh, but of the heart. Further one of the Jews key problems has been uncircumcision of the heart. Circumcision started with Abraham and his descendants, but Moses made it plain that circumcision was symbolic, and the key circumcision was of the heart. As Moses said it,

“Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.”
Deut 10:16

However, they did not change any time soon, so the prophet Jeremiah said,

“… for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart. ”
Jer 9:26

In Malachi’s days the Jews were still stubborn and unspiritual as a group, Mal 3:5-6. Then when Stephen preached the history of the Jews before the Sanhedrin in Acts 7, he summarized it this way.

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.”
Acts 7:51

But one day all of this will change.

“Yahweh your God WILL circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live. ”
Deut 30:6 (emphasis added)

This is NOT man saying this. This is GOD saying this, and saying that HE is the one who will circumcise the hearts of the Jews, and their seed! That is to say He will circumcise the descendants of the Jews at that time! Also this is NOT a conditional promise, but a statement of what GOD will do!

This will be after the Jews humble their uncircumcised hearts, and accept the punishment for their sins, Lev 26:41, 43, etc.; and they will become the head of the nations, Deut 28:13.

Scripture cannot be broken, Jesus says in Jn 10:35.

Jesus puts it another way in what many call the Sermon on the Mount.

“For most assuredly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.”
Mtt 5:18

There are many other proofs from the Old Testament, but this is a key one. This surely has not been accomplished YET! But it will! Or did you not really believe God?

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Keys to Prophecy: A Satanic Solution to Political Division

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Not everyone agrees with this world-wide division of powers and authorities. Yes, this prevents evil men from having a monopoly of power here on earth, and often pits evil men against evil men in their quests for unrestricted power. Sometimes these battles are truly terrifying. David comments,

“Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing.
He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.”
Psa 33:10

By such means God continually restricts the reach and grasp of evil men. Satan though intends to offer the ultimate solution to the divisions of worldly powers.

Satan intends to offer a substitute “god,” another
“god”/man whom ALL have to worship.

If ALL men HAD TO worship just ONE MAN, that would provide the foundation for unifying all of ideas under that ONE MAN. (See the post on “Religious Ideas are the Foundation of ALL Politics.) That would provide a sure framework to end all of the diversity in religion, and that is the root of our political diversity. It would provide a basis for world-wide unity. Paul says of this “god”/man,

“he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.”
2Thes 2:4

He is called “the beast” in Revelation. He is talked about under several names and phrases in both the Old and the New Testaments. The “mystery of lawlessness” occult (hidden) religion that will eventually produce this world ruler, “already works” in the first century, 2Thes 2:7. God will at the last allow him a short reign of three and a half years (for a time, and times, and half a time).

“… Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him. ”
Rev 13:5

Many think of this as hard times for the church

And it will be. However God will once more provide for His faithful ones in “the wilderness.” You might think of this as the second (and final) exodus out of this world.

“Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she might be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.”
Rev 12.10

Even so, this is also times of extreme stress
for the entire world.

This man will come with powerful Satanic signs and wonders (2Thes 2:9), including some sort of his being raised from the dead.

“One of his heads looked like it had been wounded fatally. His fatal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled at the beast.”
Rev 13:3

No one will be able to buy or sell or trade anything unless they accept this man as “god.” And if you worship him, you will perish forever, Rev 13:8, 17.

This is not some sort of premillenial invention. This is Scripture and it clearly has NOT happened yet. All but a few faithful will worship him, very near the end of the age.

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Prophecy Practice: Micah and the Christ, Part 12 of 12

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We should always remember two things of prophecy. First,

“But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.”
Lk 16:17

Jesus here seems to using the word “law” to be the entire Old Testament. So we may not understand how, but there is nothing we read in prophecy which will fail.

Second, prophecy is conversational, and topical, not sequential

And what will be cut off “in that day.”

It apparently is speaking of the days of the ruler of Mic 5:2, and it says,

“It will happen in that day,” says Yahweh,
“That I will cut off your horses out of the midst of you,
And will destroy your chariots.”
Mic 5:10

Ancient Israel was not to trust in horses and chariot, Deut 17:16 and so on, but in the Lord. Neither should we trust in tanks and fighter jets. But that has been neither ancient or modern Israel. But it will be at some point. Then in this rambling discussion it seems to refer to the first fall of Judah in 586 BC, in Mich 5:11. Then he says,

“I will destroy witchcraft from your hand;

“ And you shall have no soothsayers.”
Mic 5:12

That was a big problem with ancient Israel, and was still a problem in the first century, and is with many modern Jews in the Kabbalistic lore.

The Kabalah (also Cabbala or Qabalah) was a writing down of the ancient Gnostic traditions of the occult, by Spanish Jews of the 12th and 13 centuries AD. It is the fountain head of almost all modern witchcraft and magic and the occult, and is very influential among many Jews even of today. It is even a support for some idolatry.

But one day, when Jesus draws the Jews to Himself, it will all go away.

Also all idolatry will pass away

“13 I will cut off your engraved images and your pillars out of your midst;
And you shall no more worship the work of your hands.
14 I will uproot your Asherim out of your midst;
And I will destroy your cities.”
Mic 5:13-14

The Asherim are images of Asherah, we might call her “mother nature.” Sadly, goddess worship still exists among some Jews and gentiles. These issues are dealt with in Jewish Chronicles, to be released in the fall of 2020. And lastly, Micah seems to deal with,

A Judgment day which is coming.

“I will execute vengeance in anger,
And wrath on the nations that didn’t listen.”
Mic 5:15

Everyone will have to appear before this ruler of Mic 5:2.

“I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.”
Mtt 12:36

““But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. 32 Before him all the nations will be gathered …”
Mtt 25:31-32

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Prophecy Practice: Micah and the Christ, Part 11 of 12

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What this Messiah will accomplish.

Of this ruler whose goings and coming are from everlasting, he says,

“He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land,
And when he marches through our fortresses,
Then we will raise against him seven shepherds,
And eight leaders of men.”
Mic 5:5

Ah! “He will be our peace,” truly even in trial. Assyria had invaded in Micah’s time. In Isaiah chapters 36 and 37 it describes all of Judah being overrun, except Jerusalem. But when this ruler comes, He will raise up shepherds against the Assyrians. Shepherd is often a synonym for rulers in Scripture, as in 1Kgs 22:16-18. Of some later shepherds/rulers of Israel Micah says,

“They will rule the land of Assyria with the sword,
And the land of Nimrod in its gates.
He will deliver us from the Assyrian,
When he invades our land,
And when he marches within our border.”
Mic 5:6

So from the bounty of this future ruler it will be that Israel will rule Assyria! Now this has not happened yet! Still it should be noted that the Assyria people, though small today, still exist, mainly in Iraq and Syria,

And the remnant of Jacob?

The remnant of God’s people is of course a big subject in both Testaments. It is only a small number who will be saved.

“… “If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, It is the remnant who will be saved;””
Rom 9:27

It doesn’t have to be this way, but we as men frequently make bad decisions, so that often only small numbers survive. Because of the sins of the Jews, they have been scattered all over the world, viewed as “the Dispersion,” as in Jn 7:35. And later,

Two-thirds of the Jews will be killed,

in a Great Distress and persecution of both Christians and Jews which will bring the conversion of the Jews to Rabbi Jesus of Nazareth, Zech 13:8. A remnant! Also something which has not happened YET!

But Micah 5 seems to speak of a dispersion for GOOD

“The remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples,
Like dew from Yahweh,
Like showers on the grass,
That don’t wait for man,
Nor wait for the sons of men.”
Micah 5:7

When the Jews are converted to Jesus of Nazareth in Great Distress, Scripture pictures the Jews as leading in the preaching of the gospel to an unsaved world. Could that be this?

Further, Jacob will be like a lion among the nations,
and will rule over many peoples

8 The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations,
In the midst of many peoples,
Like a lion among the animals of the forest,
Like a young lion among the flocks of sheep;
Who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, And there is no one to deliver.
9 Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries,
And let all of your enemies be cut off.
Mic 5:8-9

Thus two very different outcomes, yet to come, from the ruler of Mic 5:2.

Scriptures are from the World English Bible (WEB), a copyright free revision
of the original ASV American Standard Version 1901