1. Israel in the End times

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One of the great deceptions that the enemy has brought about concerning Bible prophecy is the teaching that we need to look to the nation of Israel for the fulfilment of Bible End Times Prophecy. And if you search for end times in the search engines, you will find that majority of websites you click on will be focus on Israel. But on this page you will find the truth about Israel in the wrong direction. Please remember as you study this subject of Israel in the End Times, that God's promise to Israel were CONDITIONAL upon them following and keeping His commandments and accepting Christ Jesus as their saviour. Take a look at the following Bible verses: Exodus 19:5-6....'Now therefore, IF ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people : For all the earth is mine: and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation, these are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel."
1Kings 6:12-13....'Concerning this house which thou art in building, If thou wilt walk in my status and execute my judgements, and keep all my commandments to walk in them, THEN I will perform my word with THEE, which l spake unto David thy father.'
1Kings 9:6-7.....'But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my status which l have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them; THEN WILL I CUT OF ISRAEL out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which l have hallowed for my name, will cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people.' Jeremiah 18:7-10......'At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation, against whom i have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. And at what instant I shall speak concerned a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; IF IT do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice. Then I will repent of the good, where with I said I would benefit them.'

Do you see? IF you obey me, then I will REPENT of the good I promised. Conditional!
And we all know that the Jewish nation continued to sin against God and rejected Christ Jesus as their saviour! There for BREAKING the "everlasting covenant" which would only remain as an everlasting covenant trough OBEDIENCE.
Now there is something that Jesus told the Jews through one of His parable which also helps us to understand what whould happen to the Jewish nation. Have a good read of the parable of the vineyard in luke 20:9-16 here you will see Jesus giving a story about a vineyard owner (God) going away and leaving his vineyard (God's kingdom on earth) to 'husbandmen' (the Jews) to take care of it and 'bare fruit' (expand God's kingdom). And while the owner was away, he sends 'servants' (prophets) to see how things are and collect the fruit! But the husbandmen beat the servents and sent them away empty handed (the Jews by and large rejected the prophets). Then the owner (God) sends his son (Jesus Christ). And the husbandmen kill the son (the Jews have Jesus killed). And what did Jesus say would happen? They would be destroyed (Destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70) And the vineyard (kingdom of God) would BE GIVEN TO OTHERS (The gentiles, or anyone who accepted Jesus Christ as their saviour).

Now look at how the Jews reacted to this parable: Act 20:16....'And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.".....Meaning they would be TAKEN OFF THEM AND GIVEN TO ANOTHER PEOPLE. And this is EXACTLY what happened!

This is so important, because you will not reach the truth about the end times until you understand the role of "Israel" in end time Bible prophecy.

It's interesting to findout where this focus on the nation of Israel came from, all this hype about Israel in the End Times came from a man called Hal Lindsey, who wrote books in the 1980's proclaiming that the focus of the end times would be in Israel, including a literal battle of Armageddon in Israel. In these books he proclaimed "rapture of the church," a literal temple being build where the antichrist would be revealed, a literal Armageddon and thousand year millennium on earth for the church. The amazing thing is, he proclaimed that all this was to happen by the year 1988!! Now even though these events didn't take place as Hal Predicted and his belief's have been shown to be error, the majority of Christians around The world who study end times phrophecy still hold on to these teachings. But what we will show you here is that Israel in the Bible End Times has a spiritual application, not a literal one.

Remember how the Jews misinterpreted Bible prophecy and thought that Jesus was going to come the first time as this mighty warrior who would set up a "phisical" kingdom on earth and rule over nation? Well!! Have all over again with end time prophecy students and teachers today believing the exact same thing!

To be continued...