D
Dave L
Guest
The restoration of Israel happens on the last day in the resurrection and rapture of believers (Israel) into the new heavens and earth.Sadly, Dave L, your response to my post also shows a lack of understanding.
Matthew_25 shows that Jesus knew when the everlasting Kingdom of God would be established here on the earth and the signs that will be associated with that. The start of the Everlasting Kingdom will be associated with the restoration/redemption of Israel that will occur when Israel see the Son of Man dealing with the Assembled nations of the earth arrayed in order to trample Jerusalem once more at the completion of the assigned time of 2,300 years as told to us in Daniel_8:9-14 and referred to by Paul in Romans_11:25-26 as to the time when all of Israel will be saved.
The Parable of he Ten virgins happens at the beginning of the Last Age before the Age of Eternity, which mankind has labelled as the Millennium Age because of what we can read in Revelation_20, when God rejoices in the renewing of the marriage vows/covenant with Israel the Bride.
This event is then followed by the Parable of The Talents which speaks of Satan's plans during his incarceration in the Bottomless Pit for 1,000 years where his faithful servants, in this case religious faithful servants who have been given the means, i.e. large sums of money, to oppress the peoples of the earth, to keep them from worshipping the Son of Man who has been given dominion over all of the peoples of the earth such that they should worship Him.
The last event spoken about in this chapter occurs at the end of the last age before the start of the Age of Eternity, when Christ returns with all of the heavenly hosts from heaven to bring in the final judgement of the nations between the Seep and the Goats just before the second death and Hades are dispatched into the Lake of Fire such that Sin is no more present on the earth.
Jesus also gave us clues in Luke_14:25-35 as to when Israel will be redeemed and the reason for the Nations of the world coning up against Jerusalem to overcome the Israelites' attempt to build a temple to force God's hand into redeeming them at then end of the allotted time of the visitation of the iniquities of the fathers against their children and their children's children during the third and the fourth age of their existence. It is at this time that Israel will see a King, i.e. Christ, come, with all authority and power to judge the nations of the earth, and their fear was that this king would also deal harshly with them after He had deal with the nations of the earth. Because of this fear, Israel then seeks the King's terms of peace for them and in this passage, Jesus also warns that if the salt has lost its saltiness, that they would be discarded onto the dung heap.
Also In Luke_19, Jesus in the Parable of the Minas hints at the fact that Israel will also God to their King, i.e. God, to inform Him of their desire that they no longer want the nobleman who went away to become a king over them. This parable is the same parable but told to a different audience, i.e. the disciples, by Jesus in the Parable of the Talents, where a Nobleman/a man, i.e. Satan, goes away for a period of time to gain a Kingdom which is not rightfully his to have.
Because of a lack of understanding, previous scholars have suggested that during the Millennium Age, for want of a better time period title, that God wants all of Israel to be back in the land of Canaan, but the reality is that God wants all of Israel to remain scattered among all of the nations of the earth, but planted in god soil so that they can grow to bring a great harvest of souls into the Kingdom during the Millennium Age. In the Old Testament in the book of Ezekiel we are told a number of times that God will bring Israel into Good Soil to teach them about the mountain of Israel, i.e. the rock that comes down out of heaven which is God's salvation plan for all of mankind and becomes a great mountain, so that they can then teach the people who live around them. This is why God has scattered Israel to the four corners of the earth, so that Israel can be a blessing to all of the nations of the earth. Sadly we have all become fixated on the "Promised Land" rather than on the promise make to Abraham That Abraham's descendants will inherit the whole earth where God is intending to make His abode among the righteous people of the earth.
It is all there to discover if we are prepared to scratch the surface and dig into God's word.
If we, who call Jesus "Lord, Lord," will humble ourselves and respond to His calling for our lives, then we too will become a Holy Priesthood in the service of the Lord during the Millennium Age and will also receive the same inheritance as Israel.
When Does this happen? Well Daniel_7:26-27 tells us that this will happen after Satan, the false prophet and the Beast have been judged and then punished at the end of the last Age before the Age of Eternity.
Shalom
Jesus solidly contradicts any notion of a physical millennium in this word. And to read such into Revelation 20 adds to the Book of Revelation.