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It seems that people have not put all of the pieces together concerning Israel and the Little Horn who will be given armies over a period of 2,300 years to trample God's sanctuary and His earthly hosts.
God warned Israel in Exodus 20:4-6 that they were not to make idols nor to worship idols and that this iniquity would eventually be visited upon their children and the children's children during the third and the fourth Age. This warning will not end until the fourth age of the existence of Israel has drawn to its conclusion.
In Daniel 8 we are told that the Little Horn will be given an army/armies over a period of 2,300 years to trample God's sanctuary and Israel. This prophecy is rapidly drawing to its conclusion/completion in our near future.
Paul in Romans 11:25b-26 tells us that after the fulness in time of the gentiles trampling God's sanctuary and earthly hosts comes to its completion, that, after this completion occurs, all of Israel will be saved.
In 2 Chron 7:12ff God warned Solomon that if Israel continued to worship Idols that He would destroy the temple and scatter all of Israel to the four corners of the earth.
Hoses 6:1-3 confirms this where Hosea writes: -
Hosea 6:1-3: - A Call to Repentance
6:1 Come, and let us return to the Lord;
For He has torn, but He will heal us;
He has stricken, but He will bind us up.
2 After two days, i.e., after the third and the fourth age of israel’s existence, He will revive us;
On the third day, i.e., during the fifth age of Israel’s existence, He will raise us up,
That we may live in His sight.
3 Let us know,
Let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord.
His going forth is established as the morning;
He will come to us like the rain,
Like the latter and former rain to the earth.
At this present time, the fourth age has not come to its completion and the end of the fourth age will occur at the same time as the completion of the 2,300-year prophecy of the Little Horn being given armies to trample God's Sanctuary and His earthly Hosts.
From my research of the Scriptures, I believe that the end of the fourth age of Israel's existence will end in around 20 years time.
In the Sixth Bowl judgement in Rev 16:12-16 we are told that all the kings of the earth will assemble at Armageddon to be judged for their part in the Little Horn's activities of trampling God's Sanctuary and His earthly Hosts. We know that the three frog like spirits has already been seen on the face of the earth doing their signs and wonders to begin the drawing of the kings of the earth to Armageddon.
Isaish 24:21-22 describes the Armageddon Judgement of the Heavenly Hosts and the Kings of the earth and that the judged heavenly hosts and the kings of the earth will be imprisoned at that time to await the time of their punishment.
In Genesis 15:16 God foretold to Abraham that in the fourth age of the existence of Israel, measured from the time of Isaac's birth, that some of his descendants would return to the land of Canaan in their own strength and at that time the Amorite people's iniquity would not be complete. What is the iniquity of the Amorite people who were ling in and around the Land of Canaan at the time of the return of some of Abraham's descendants in 1948? Their iniquity is that "Jesus is not the Son of God" which is written in their mosque on the old Temple Mound at Jerusalem.
When God begins to gather Israel to Himself this is what He has said that He will do: -
Ezekiel 34:11-16, 25-30: - God, the True Shepherd
11 'For thus says the Lord God: "Indeed I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out. 12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock on the day he is among his scattered sheep, so will I seek out My sheep and deliver/rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on a cloudy and dark day. 13 And I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and will bring them into their own fertile field; I will feed them on the mountain of Israel, {a metaphor for Israel’s religious basis}, {where they are living} in the {river} valleys and in all the inhabited places of the earth. 14 I will feed them in good pasture, and their fold shall be on the high mountain of Israel, {i.e. the religious basis of Israel}. There they shall lie down in a good fold and feed in rich pasture on the mountain of Israel {i.e. the religious basis of Israel}. 15 I will feed My flock, and I will make them lie down," says the Lord God. 16 "I will seek what was lost and bring back what was driven away, bind up the broken and strengthen what was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong, and feed them in judgment."
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25 "I will make a covenant of peace with them and cause wild beasts, i.e., the beasts of Daniel 7, to cease from the face of the earth; and they will dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods. 26 I will make them and the places all around My hill a blessing; and I will cause showers to come down in their season; there shall be showers of blessing. 27 Then the trees of the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase. They shall be safe in their earth; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have broken the bands of their yoke and delivered them from the hand of those who enslaved them. 28 And they shall no longer be a prey for the nations, nor shall beasts of the earth devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and no one shall make them afraid. 29 I will raise up for them a garden of renown, and they shall no longer be consumed with hunger in my earth, nor bear the shame of the Gentiles anymore. 30 Thus they shall know that I, the Lord their God, am with them, and they, the house of Israel, are My people," says the Lord God.'"
God is still waiting for Israel to repent of their and their father's iniquities of idolatrous worship.
If you are looking for a sign for when this will happen, then look no further than Israel attempting to build a third temple. Luke 14:28-35 tells us that they will not succeed in rebuilding the temple and that while God is judging the kings of the earth at Armageddon that Israel will then seek God's terms of peace.
At this present time Israel is relying on their own strength and attacking Gaza and are not relying on God for His protection.
Shalom
