If you are a person of faith like I am, you know that the future of life as we know it will ultimately come to an end which will mark a beginning. God has a plan and His plan moves forward whether we acknowledge it or not. Although God is no longer on our public stage, He has never relinquished His stewardship of our world.
According to the Hebrew Bible, the End of Days can come about in two ways. The human race can enter the Messianic Age peacefully and harmoniously in man’s time frame or apocalyptically and cataclysmically with fire and brimstone in God’s time frame.
Given the state of hatred in the world and the intolerance and inhumanity of man toward man, it seems more and more likely that a destructive ending will give way to a new beginning. Many have tried to pinpoint the date of our ending; however, the truth is that nobody actually knows. It is, as they say, in God’s “Hands.”
What we do understand from biblical readings of the Hebrew prophets is that those who survive the apocalypse and who are fortunate to be admitted into a second Garden of Eden will be purified in their hearts and given a new spirit by God. Some
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biblical scholars see this not as an end to free will but as a period of time when we shall know God as the waters of the sea.
In the New Testament, the biblical writings indicate that Jesus will return as the Messiah and destroy the antichrist. In the Old Testament, as written in the prophetic books of Ezekiel, Zecharia and Joel and in the Book of Daniel, a Jewish Messiah, who is a descendant of King David, leads God’s charge. However, it is God Who is the real hero Who saves Israel when all seems hopeless and lost.
According to the biblical prophesies, Israel can therefore only survive with God’s help. Why? Because God chose Israel and more specifically the Jewish people to be His nation of Priests to bring Holiness to the rest of the world.
Twenty-five hundred years ago, the prophet Ezekiel wrote about our present world where most Jews would give up their Covenant with God; yet, God would still uphold His end of the Covenant and save and redeem the Jewish people. We seem to be at that time point now, as according to surveys only 30 percent of Jews believe in a Supreme Being.
That doesn’t make these non-believers bad people. Moreover, can they really be faulted for their disbelief, since God is no longer on the public stage of our world as He was back in biblical times? People need concrete associations.
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In biblical times, God was the God of both Heaven and Earth. When the First and Second Temples were destroyed, we lost God to Heaven. He shall not return to assume His dual role until the Third Temple is built at the End of Days and we enter the Messianic Age.
The Book of Daniel speaks about Daniel’s dream of four kingdoms represented by four beasts. Out of the beast of the fourth kingdom, which is the Roman Empire, are ten horns, and among the ten horns comes an eleventh all powerful smaller horn. We know that Christianity has evolved out of the Roman Empire. The key to the apocalypse, in my opinion, is the small horn which if you wish you can liken to the antichrist.
The ten horns according to some Jewish scholars are a metaphor for ten Muslim nations who, with the active encouragement of other world nations, will attack Israel at the End of Days. However, the little horn is the real leader and he or she has been suggested to have Christian and/or Muslim ancestry. This leader may not even realize that he is the leader until it’s too late to reverse a decision that he has made to cause worldwide calamity.
Not that we can alter the tides of history; however, it would be important to examine any radical global changes that would cause the destabilization of Israel, if only to give us warning of what’s coming. These changes could be of an economic, political or military nature. They could also come about if Israel’s main
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supporter, the United States, were to take any foreign policy approach which would weaken Israel.
All parties seeking a Middle East peace agreement should not base the price of peace on appeasement of those who do not value human life and who falsely murder in the name of God. Remember Winston Churchill. He defined appeasement as feeding the sharks in the hope that you will be eaten last.
God decided to pass his spiritual covenant to the Jews and the Jews have paid the price with so many lives lost over the centuries. Jews were not chosen because they were better than anyone else. When the Covenant was made between God and the Jewish people, there were only idol worshipping nations whom God realized would never change their ways.
At the time, there were no Christians or Muslims. Jews were the first grandchild. Christians and Muslims were supposed to be the second and third grandchildren. The rest of the world were never supposed to be monotheistic but would become so at the End of Days when God would once again be the God of Heaven and Earth.
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