Ronald David Bruno
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Of course being born again would be the beginning of eternity for them but all the steps and actions that have transpired in the last 70 years were setting the stage for the final battle. Israel had to become a nation, they had to prosper and grow, to become wealthy enough, a nuclear power. They generate and fuel hate by their prosperity, their unity, their pride and religion (We are the chosen nation ... by God) and so the hatred grows until the only way to defeat them is to become a nuclear power. But all their enemies will be defeated. Iran is about there. Still Israel has probably hundreds of nukes. It only takes a couple, an EMP. In one hour many missiles will fly and many will die in a nuclear war.Their only real beginning will be when they repent and all Israel is saved. Only the saved Israel will be gathered back to that land by God, and protected, and made rulers etc. The current nation according to prophesy is slated for invasion, defeat, and, great death and sorrow. The Israel that will be born in a day was not that secular doomed one.
This berse desceibes the effects of a neutron bomb. It dissolves/melts away your flesh while you are standing in your feet. I would imagine any nuclear bomb would.
And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet, Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths. Zech. 14:12 The word "dissolve" can also be translated, consume away, rot, decay.
Will Christ use nukes to destroy them or just fire from heaven, He speaks the wirda and they are toast? That reminds me of that scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark, at the end.
Rev. 8:7 describes 1/3 of the earth on fire. That most likely is the Middle East.
The rider in the pale horse brings death (from wars, pestilence and famine) to 1/4 of the planet. That's almost 2 billion. Later in in the GT another 1/3 dies. That will cause people to repent. But they will have to before the last trumpet is blown, after which time the wrath of God in the Seven Bowls is released and no one repents after that, they curse God. The Restrainer, Holy Spirit, is taken out of the way and all hell breaks loose. So the question is, when will this remnant Jewish/Israel be enlightened? Where and when do the two witnesses who evangelize them arrive? Prior to Christ's return or after. It would appear prior since seeing Jesus descending from heaven would be enough and they wouldn't be needed.
Exciting and confusing times aye. Hold onto to your faith. We will have to go through some of that.