QUOTE: “WE STUDY THE END TIMES SO THAT WE WILL LIVE EACH DAY

AS IF IT IS OUR LAST.” h. buck

IT IS CLEAR THAT GOD’S DEALINGS WITH THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD BOTH NECESSITATE THE RETURN OF CHRIST.

DID YOU REALIZE HIS PLAN FOR ISRAEL ALSO DEMAND THE SECOND COMING?

CHRIST NEEDS VINDICATION BEFORE THE WORLD

AWESOME, GRAND, GLORIOUS, FANTASTIC

GOD, IN HIS GRACIOUSNESS, HAS ENCOURAGED THE DECENDENTS OF ABRAHAM, ISSAC, AND JACOB BY DETAILING HIS FUTURE PLANS TO GREATLY BLESS THE JEWS ONCE THEY TURN TO JESUS CHRIST AS THEIR SAVIOR. (WHICH WILL OCCUR NEAR THE END OF THE TRIBULATION)

Let say you promised your child or grandchild a $1 gift. You gave the child at the time only 25 cents. What can you expect, and what can your child or grandchild expect?

NUMEROUS TIMES IN SCRIPTURE, GOD GAVE ONLY A PARTIAL FULFILLMENT (IN THE NEAR TERM) OF HIS PROMISES… WHAT CAN WE EXPECT? ESPECIALLY THE JEWS?

GOD PROMISED CERTAIN LAND (THAT GOD SAYS IS HIS) TO ABRAHAM, ALSO ISSAC, ALSO TO JACOB.

HAVE THEY EVER POSSESSED ALL THE LAND THAT GOD PROMISED?

WHEN WILL THEY FINALLY POSSESS ALL THAT GOD PROMISED?

RESULT OF WW I – DIVIDING UP THE OTTMAN EMPIRE.

BORDER AS PROPOSED BYJEWISHISH ZIONISTS

AFTER RECEIVING THE AREA OF JORDAN (77% OF MANDATE),

ARABS DEMAND MORE (I.E. MUCH OF JEWISH TERRITORY)

JORDAN, TWO YEARS AFTER JEWS GRANTED STATEHOOD, INDEPENDENTLY “ACQUIRES”LARGE PART OF ISRAEL

ONLY BRITIAN CONCURS

1967 WAR RESULTS --- JORDAN MILITARY DRIVEN BACK TO RIVER.

IS IT NOW CLEAR WHY ISRAEL WAS SO UPSET OVER THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES SAYING “START NEGOTIATING WITH THE PRE-WAR 1967 BORDERS”

THERE WILL NEVER BE PEACE UNTIL CHRIST RETURNS… AND ENFORCES PEACE… WITH A “ROD OF IRON”

CHRIST MUST RETURN TO EFFECT GOD’S PROMISE TO ABRAHAM, ISSAC AND JACOB… AND THEIR BELIEVING DECENDENTS.

Zechariah 12:10 includes the promise: I WILL POUR ON THE HOUSE OF DAVID AND ON THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM THE SPIRIT OF GRACE AND SUPPLICATION; THEN THEY WILL LOOK ON ME WHOM THEY PIERCED. Yes, they will mourn for him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for him as one grieves for a firstborn”.

THIS HAS NOT YET HAPPENED, BUT IT WILL (AT THE END OF THE TRIBULATION)…

JUST BEFORE HE COMES AGAIN.

I SAM. 12:22 “THE LORD WILL NOT FORSAKE HIS PEOPLE, FOR HIS GREAT NAME’S SAKE, BECAUSE IT HAS PLEASED THE LORD TO MAKE YOU HIS PEOPLE”

2 SAM. 7:24 “YOU HAVE MADE YOUR PEOPLE ISRAEL YOUR VERY OWN PEOPLE FOREVER; AND YOU, LORD, HAVE BECOME THEIR GOD”

JER. 30:11 “EVEN IF HE WERE TO MAKE A FULL END OF ALL NATIONS WHERE HE HAD SCATTERED ISRAEL, HE WOULD NEVER MAKE A FULL END OF ISRAEL.”

ROM. 11; 28-29 “EVEN WHILE THE ISRAELITES ARE ENEMIES OF THE GOSPEL, GOD’S ELECTION IS THEM TO BE HIS PEOPLE IS IRREVOCABLE”

JEWISH RETURNEES FROM BABYLON CAPTIVITY IMMEDIATELY BEGAN TO REBUILD THE TEMPLE… BUT GENTILES OPPOSED.

WITHIN TWO YEARS, THEY HAD THE FOUNDATION OF THE TEMPLE IN PLACE… THEN QUIT…

16 YEARS LATER, GOD INTERVENED AND ENCOURAGED HAGGAI AND ZACHERIAH TO GIVE MESSAGES OF ENCOURAGEMENT TO CONTINUE BUILDING… BECAUSE ITS COMPLETION WAS IMPORTANT TO GOD’S FUTURE BLESSING.

ZECHARIAH MESSAGE STIRRED THESE RETURNEES FROM THEIR APATHY AND MOVED THEM TO RESUME CONSTRUCTION.. WITH ZEAL (Ezra 6:14)

UPON RESUMPTION, GOD GAVE ZECHARIAH A SERIES OF EIGHT NIGHT VISIONS (1:7 – 6:15) CONCERNING GOD’S CARE FOR JUDAH’S PRESENT AND FUTURE STATES.

I (GOD) WILL RETURN TO JERUSALEM WITH MERCY (16)

GOD’S TEMPLE WILL BE REBUILT (16) JERUSALEM’S BOUNDARIES WILL BE RE-

ESTABLISHED (16) GOD WILL RESTORE THE CITIES OF JUDAH WITH

PROSPERITY (17) GOD REASSURED JUDAH HE WILL COMFORT

HER (17) GOD RE-AFFIRMED HIS DIVINE SELECTION OF

THE JEWISH PEOPLE (17)◦ PROMISES PARTIALLY FULFILLED… AWAITING

CHRIST RETURN TO COMPLETE.

THIS CHAPTER FOCUSES ON GOD’S FUTURE PLAN FOR AN ELECT, PRESERVED, AND REDEEMED ISRAEL. GOD HAS NOT FORSAKEN THE COVENANTS HE MADE WITH THE JEWISH NATION AND WILL BRING TO FRUITION EVERYTHING HE HAS ORDAINED FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE.

READ THIS MARVELOUS PROMISE OF GOD

ISA. 2: 3, 11 “MANY PEOPLE SHALL COME AND SAY, COME, AND LET US GO UP TO THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD, TO THE HOUSE OF THE GOD OF JACOB; HE WILL TEACH US HIS WAYS, AND WE SHALL WALK IN HIS PATHS. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. The lofty look of man shall be humbled, the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day”

Psm 67:6 “Then the earth shall yield her increase; GOD, our own GOD, shall bless us”

DAN 2:44 ‘AND IN THE DAYS OF THESE KINGS THE GOD OF HEAVEN WILL SET UP A KINGDOM WHICH SHALL NEVER BE DESTROYED; AND THE KINGDOM SHALL NOT BE LEFT TO OTHER PEOPLE; IT SHALL BREAK IN PIECES AND CONSUME ALL THESE KINGDOMS, AND IT SHALL STAND FOREVER”

ETERNAL JOY AND GLADNESS, AND MANY NATIONS WILL TURN TO JEWISH BELIEVERS FOR SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE (Isa 51:11; Zech. 8:23)

NO DISEASE (Isa 33:24) LIFE LENGTHENED (Isa 65:20, 22) NO DISASTERS (Isa 65:23) LAND PRODUCTIVE (Zech 14:10)

NO LONGER SEEK PREY:◦ “THE WOLF ALSO SHALL DWELL WITH THE

LAMB, THE LEOPARD SHALL LIE DOWN WITH THE YOUNG GOAT, THE CALF AND THE YOUNG LION AND THE FATLING TOGETHER; AND A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM. THE COW AND THE BEAR SHALL GRAZE; THEIR YOUNG ONES SHALL LIE DOWN TOGETHER, AND THE LION SHALL EAT STRAW LIKE THE OX” (ISA 11; 6-7, HOS. 2:18)

AWAITING CHRIST’S RETURN TO EARTH

ARE YOU READY?

THOSE BORN DURING THE MILLENIUM, WILL HAVE THE SAME NEED AS THOSE TODAY. THE INDIVIDUAL NEED TO TRUST CHRIST AS THEIR SAVIOUR AND LORD.

THUS, SOME WILL PROBABLY BE EVANGELIST’S AND TEACHERS DURING THE MILLENIUM…. (my speculation).

VINDICATION OF CHRIST DEMANDS IT….◦ LAST PUBLIC VIEW WAS THAT OF A BLEEDING,

DYING, CRUCIFIED CRIMINAL, COVERED WITH BLOOD, SPIT, AND FLIES, HANGING NAKED.

◦ LAST TIME THE WORLD SAW HIM ON DISPLAY, HE WAS HUMILIATED, SUFFERING, AND HANGING ON WOOD.

◦ AFTER RESURRECTION, ONLY BELIEVERS SAW HIM, TOUCHED HIM, SPOKE TO HIM, AND GAVE UNANIMOUS TESTIMONY THAT HE IS ALIVE.