I just wrote the following on another thread about Muslims, the Middle East and Israel, and about is living “at the end” of the “last days” ... at which time Jesus, the Messiah of Israel, returns and goes to WAR. with all who oppose him on earth, and sets up his earthly Kingdom, ruling over all the nations of the world, from Jerusalem. The person I was responding to didn’t seem to think we could possibly know whether we were actually in that time period at which time Jesus returns.
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The “bias” here is not accepting what God does say about the situation. We are told that Israel will be regathered this one more time, in the land. Israel is in the process right now of regathering in the land, while the Muslims are intent on pushing them out of the land. They see their presence there as a slap in the face to their false god, Allah. It “puts the lie” to their false religion to have Israel in the land. Of course, that’s one purpose of God regathering them back to the land - to “put the lie” to their false religion.
With Muslims’ numbers and power in that region and their extreme animosity to Israel’s existence in this area of overwhelming Muslim population and domination - Israel cannot survive in normal human terms - in the long-range, more than a few decades, if even that long.
The USA has been a protector and backer of Israel being in the land for quite a while now and that balances the power there, against the Muslims. It’s clear now that the support for Israel is waning in the USA, overall and politically. You can even see that here on this forum. Those types who want the USA to back out of “having Israel’s back” and just let Israel “take care of itself, on it’s own.”
It will come to the point where the USA no longer has Israel’s back, and Israel will not be able to hold off the hoards of Muslims, who are right there in their own lands, surrounding Israel. Israel would be defeated and run off the land, in normal human terms.
HOWEVER, God makes it clear that He will intervene on Israel’s behalf and that Israel will not be run off another time and regathered back the fifth time around, back to the land or the sixth time around, or some infinite time around. God regathers them back into the land this time and He protects them supernaturally, in a way that no one else or any nation or even themselves can do ... so that the whole world recognizes that it is God and God alone who fights on Israel’s behalf (and we haven’t seen that yet).
This intent of the Muslims to rid the land of Israel won’t go on for another fifty years or 100 years, thus putting off the hand of God in protecting Israel. It’s this very thing of the impending demise of Israel which will drive the people to call out to the Messiah of Israel to save them - and save them He does, just like God says He will.
You are NOW in the “time of the end” (i.e., that particular time period of the Messiah’s second coming) and so ... you should recognize the soon coming of the Messiah of Israel, just like He said the people of his time before, were supposed to have recognized his coming them (almost two thousand years ago). He said they should have recognized the time. You should recognize the time now.
The vast majority of people who are on this earth will be the ones living through this time of His return - whether you or I individually are still here or not (as any individual one of us can die tonight in his or her sleep, or whatever else may happen).
We are told to recognize that time of his coming just like you would read the weather and recognize that a storm is coming (you know that storm isn’t a thousand years away, but is right around the corner).
If you live long enough, and you don’t get killed in the process of the things to come you will be seeing the return of the Messiah of Israel to this earth!
Maranatha!
We are told to recognize that time of his coming just like you would read the weather and recognize that a storm is coming (you know that storm isn’t a thousand years away, but is right around the corner).