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Don’t Give Up , the End is Near !!! Study Day 7
You May Stumble
The concept of “glorifying” God is that of honoring God with one’s life. First Corinthians 10:31 teaches believers to honor the Lord in all they do: “So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.” The context of this verse includes a discussion of the freedom believers have in Christ. We are free to make personal choices in life, but we are not to do anything that causes another person to “stumble” or sin in his own walk with God. We are to seek the good of others (1 Corinthians 10:32–33).
Further, believers may have the “right” to do anything, but not everything is beneficial (1 Corinthians 10:23). Paul used the illustration of eating meat that had been dedicated to idols. To him, such a dedication meant nothing since idols are not real gods. However, he would abstain from ever eating meat again for the good of others who might sin by following his example. Believers serve the Lord both through their personal lives and in their actions toward others.
To glorify God requires full commitment to Him. In Colossians 3:23 we read, “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord.” The context includes Paul’s directions for Christian slaves working for human masters. Even in this role, their work was to be done as if they were serving Jesus (Colossians 3:24). To honor or glorify God in everything includes having a strong work ethic, even when we work for those we do not like or labor in difficult situations.
Glorifying God in everything means we honor Him in our thoughts and actions. Our thoughts are to be set on the things of God (Psalm 1) and the Word of God (Psalm 119:11). When we focus on God’s Word, we know what is right and can follow through with doing what is right.
Jesus always glorified His Father in heaven. There was never a moment when He did not glorify God. Our Lord’s every thought, word, and action was totally devoted to the glory of God. When Jesus faced the temptations of Satan (Matthew 4:1–11), Jesus quoted Scripture all three times. Jesus was a man of the Word, fully committed to God’s will, and His example in overcoming temptation offers hope to all of us who seek to stand firm during times of testing.
Another way we glorify God in everything we do is in the proper treatment of our bodies. In speaking of sexual immorality, 1 Corinthians 6:19–20 teaches, “Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.”
To glorify God in everything, we must exercise faith (Hebrews 11:6), love without hypocrisy (Romans 12:9), deny ourselves (Luke 9:23), be filled with the Spirit (Ephesians 5:18), and offer ourselves as “living sacrifices” to God (Romans 12:1). Every area of life is important to evaluate and live to its fullest for the glory and honor of God. We should strive for every thought and deed to bring joy to our Father in heaven.
In Matthew 21:44, Jesus says, “He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed.” The key to understanding this statement lies in the context of the verse and the larger conversation Jesus was having.
Jesus was teaching in the temple courts when the chief priests and elders approached Him and demanded to know the source of His authority. In response, Jesus asked them about John the Baptist—was he a prophet of God or not? The religious leaders, fearing the people’s response, refused to reveal their true opinion on the matter. In turn, Jesus refused to reveal the source of His authority (Matthew 21:23-27). In doing so, Jesus made it clear that the Jewish leaders themselves had no authority to judge Him.
Jesus then related two parables concerning vineyards. In the first, Jesus told of two sons who were told by their father to go work in the vineyard. The first son initially refused but later changed his mind and went to work. The second son promised to work, but he never went to the vineyard. Jesus applied this to the religious leaders of Israel, who were like the second son—they expressed agreement with the Father but, in the final analysis, were disobedient. The sinners who responded to John the Baptist’s message were like the first son—they seemed unlikely candidates for heaven, but they repented and thus will enter the kingdom (verses 28-32).
In the second parable, Jesus tells of a landowner who, at harvest time, sent some servants to his vineyard to collect the fruit. However, the farmers who were tending the vineyard were a wicked lot, and when the servants arrived, the farmers beat some of them and killed others. Finally, the landowner sent his own son to collect the fruit, expecting that the farmers would show him respect. But the farmers treated the son worst of all, throwing him out of the vineyard and killing him (Matthew 21:33-39).
Jesus then asks a question: “When the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” (Matthew 21:40). The chief priests and elders respond, “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end” (Matthew 21:41). Jesus then presses His point home with a quotation from Psalm 118: “The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes” (Matthew 21:42). After a warning that the religious leaders will not inherit the kingdom (Matthew 21:43), we come to the statement in question, which is the culmination of a series of dire pronouncements aimed at the chief priests and elders.
Jesus begins with a question about John the Baptist in Matthew 21:25, but by the end of the conversation, Jesus is plainly speaking of Himself, referring to a “father” sending his “son” who was killed (Matthew 21:37). He then immediately quotes a Messianic prophecy (Matthew 21:42), in effect claiming to be the long-awaited Messiah. The progression is logical: a rejection of John leads one naturally to a rejection of Christ, to whom John pointed (John 1:29, 3:30).
The stone which “the builders rejected” in verse 42 is Jesus. Although rejected, He nevertheless becomes the “chief cornerstone” (NKJV). See also Acts 4:11; Ephesians 2:20; and 1 Peter 2:6-8. The builders’ rejection of the stone is a reference to Christ’s crucifixion. The Lord’s choice of the stone to be the cornerstone is a reference to Christ’s resurrection. God chose His Son, despised and rejected by the world, to be the foundation of His church (1 Corinthians 3:11). “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation” (Isaiah 28:16).
Now, there are consequences for coming into contact with a stone. If you trip over the edge of a rock and fall on it, you may break some bones. If a large enough rock falls on top of you, you may be killed. Jesus uses these truths to deliver a warning to the Jewish leaders.
The stone in verse 44 is also Jesus. In saying that those who fall on this stone “will be broken to pieces,” Jesus is warning against opposing Him. Defying Jesus is like beating one’s head against a solid rock—a foolish action. In saying that those upon whom the stone falls “will be crushed,” Jesus is warning against ignoring Him or trivializing Him. Apathy towards Jesus is like standing in the way of a falling rock—another foolish action. “I am here to do God’s work,” Jesus essentially says. “The foundation for the church will be laid. It is unwise to oppose Me because God’s work is not inconsequential.”
Rejection of the Savior is fatal. Unfortunately, many do reject Him. “He will be a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall” (Isaiah 8:14). To persistently reject the Savior is to court judgment so severe that the only thing left will be dust. The prophet Daniel gives a similar picture of the Messiah, likening Him to a rock “cut out, but not by human hands,” which smashes into the nations of the world and completely obliterates them (Daniel 2:31-45).
Matthew 21:44 is a call to faith, an appeal to open one’s eyes and see that Jesus is indeed the Son of God sent into the world. The verse is also a strict warning against rejecting Jesus Christ. He is the sure Rock of salvation for those who believe, but an immovable stumbling stone for those who do not.
The concept of not causing others to stumble is found in Romans 14 and 1 Corinthians 8. In these chapters, Paul talks about personal convictions and our responsibility to our fellow believers in Christ. He highlights several topics over which believers have disagreements—food, drink, and sacred days. In Paul’s time, the disagreements were mostly concerning Jewish law versus the new freedom found in Christ. We experience much the same type of disagreements today, even over the same topics, to which we could add things like body piercings, tattoos, clothing style, movies, video games, books, and alcohol/tobacco. These are all areas for which the Bible does not provide specific instruction and yet are areas in which many feel conviction. Some of these things can lead to worldliness, sin, impurity or even just become an obsession/idol. But, on the flip side, legalism and avoidance of anything the world has to offer can also become an idol.
Paul tells the Romans, “So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God. Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother’s way . . . So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the man who does not condemn himself by what he approves. But the man who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin” (Romans 14:12-13, 22-23). Paul is telling us to enjoy our freedom in Christ, but along with that freedom comes the responsibility to protect those around us who have doubts about that freedom.
The example of alcohol is relevant here. Alcohol is not inherently evil, and the biblical prohibitions are not against drinking but against drunkenness. But someone who tends toward alcoholism very often knows he must not drink at all and believes others shouldn’t drink, either, even in moderation. If a Christian has a friend who is convinced drinking is wrong, then drinking around that person may cause him/her to “stumble” or trip up. The Greek word for “stumble” gives the sense of stubbing one’s toe. As Christians, we are forbidden to do anything that may cause our brothers and sisters in Christ to stub their toe, spiritually speaking. Stubbing the toe can cause a person to fall in the spiritual sense, or to damage or weaken his faith. In all things, the important lesson is to “make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification” (Romans 14:19). In this way, God is glorified, believers are edified, and the world sees in us “righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit” (Romans 14:17).
Tea Time Manna
Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.
—Ecclesiastes 9:18
Just a little leaven and the whole lump is changed (1 Corinthians 5:6). A sinful person can have the same effect, leaving an evil residue on an entire group of people committed to God. So let’s be wise and reverence God by obeying him and his Word. Let’s be insightful in the way we deal with sin and temptation in our lives. Let’s also remember that we are at war with the evil one (Ephesians 6:10-12) and do not even allow him the tiniest footholds. Then, let’s praise God because our Savior has already defeated our enemy, and the Holy Spirit empowers us to stand up to Satan’s attacks and resist his temptations.
Prayer
Loving Father, please give me wisdom to see through the deceptiveness of the devil’s schemes while I seek to live your truth and display your character in my life. Thank you for your power at work in me and in my life. In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen and Amen
Truth Article by Pastor Dirk
Is the Great Tribulation a Christian Tribulation only?
This Article ever Christian HAVE TO and should Read, if you had the believe of a Pre tribulation Rapture or a Mid Tribulation Rapture , after reading this article and the proof supplied , your fear will go away , and you will realize there is no reason you still need to cling to the lie called the Pre or Mid Tribulation Rapture anymore.
This article will proof to you that the Great Tribulation is not in full a Christian Tribulation, But mostly a Tribulation for the Unbeliever.
This article by Pastor Dirk Flemix is called “Time, Times and Half a Time”
The Words by John in the Book of Revelations describing the Time Period of the Great Tribulation and the Time Period where the Jews that Fled from Judea / West Bank / Country of Palestine to the Wilderness of the Jordan Valley, was Taken care of by The Angels.
Rev 12:14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
Time = Meaning One Year = 365 Days
Times = 2 Years = 730 Days
And Half a Time = 6 Months = 183 Days
Jesus Confirmed this fleeing of the Jews in Judea!
Mat 24:15-22 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
Jesus calls this Time Period of Time, Times and Half a Time. – The Great Tribulation.
In Rev 12 we see that the Jews that will remain in the West Bank during the 2 State Solution, where Israel will give the West Bank to Palestine and in price of this, Israel will receive the Approval to Build their 3rd Jewish Temple on Temple Mount Jerusalem next to the Dome of the Rock (The Muslim / Islam Temple on Temple Mount).
But 1290 days After the Building of the Temple started and Sacrifices kicked off, the Jewish Messiah that arranged the Peace Agreement will walk into the Temple, go and sit on the arc of the Covenant and claim to be the God of Israel. He will demand the stopping of the Daily Sacrifices in the 3rd Temple. (This is called the Abomination of Desolation).
The Prophet Daniel spoke of this and again confirmed by Johns in his timing of the Great Tribulation, but this Time in Number of Days. = 1290 Days
Dan 12:11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
John Confirms the Time period before the Abomination of Desolation, from the Point the Corner Stone of the Temple was Place and Completed,
Rev 11:1-3 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
Note that John confirms the Time Period before the Great Tribulation twice.
V2, 42 Months and Just one verse down 1290 Days.
Please Note that John gave us 3 Descriptive Phrase to confirm 3 and half year Period.
In Rev 11
42 Months = 3 and half Years
1290 Days = 3 and half Years
AND in Rev 12
Time, Times and Half a Time = 3 and Half Years
Why did he use 3 Different Terms to describe the some time span?
I believe it’s a Clue, in this Timing of the 3 and Half Years, gives us the timing of different events during the last 3 and Half Years Leading to the Battle of Armageddon.
This 3 and half Years of the Great Tribulation is Split into 3 Parts according to John!
Time = 1 Year = 365 Days
Times = 2 Years = 730 Days
Half a Time = 6 Months = 183 Days
Let’s see what Events will happen during this last 3 and half Years on Earth!
1st Ly it will all start with the Abomination of Desolation.
Mat 24:15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
v16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
Dan 12:11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
2Th 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
v4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
Then the Marking or Sealing of the Judean Jews with the seal of God must take Place.
Rev 7:2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,
v3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
v4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
Then the Jews that are in Judea have to Flee.
Mat 24:15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
v16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
Rev 12:6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Then The 666 Mark of Beast is implemented.
Rev 13:7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
v8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
v9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
v10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
v11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
v12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
v13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
v14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
v15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
v16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
v17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
v18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Then Christians are marked with the Seal of God in their foreheads.
Rev 9:4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
The 5th Trumpet Sounds
Rev 8:13 And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!
The 5th Trumpet Happens during the Great Tribulation just before the Wrath of God is Poured Out, Months after the 666 Mark of the Beast was Implemented!
Rev 9:1-6 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
What Will Happen During the 5th Trumpet?
A Super Volcano will erupt and will affect the Earth for 5 Months. The Result of the Lava and Ash from this Super Volcano will birth insects that will sting, the Bearers of the Mark of the Beast and sores all over their Bodies will appear. Sores with amerce pain and no remedy!
The 1st Plaque of God’s Wrath.
Rev 16:2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.
What tells me this still have to take place and it will happen during the Great Tribulation?
According to Rev 9
Rev 9:4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
Christian then go into Angel Protection before the 5th Trumpet Sounds, Just before the Wrath of God takes Place on Earth against the Bearers of the Mark of the Beast.
Psa 91:1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
v2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
v3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
v4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
v5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
v6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
v7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
v8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.
v9 Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
v10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
v11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
v12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
v13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
v14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
v15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
v16 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
The Wrath of God Starts
Rev 16:1 And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
The 1st Plaque of God’s Wrath
Rev 16:2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.
The 2nd Plaque of God’s Wrath
Rev 16:3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.
The 3rd Plaque of God’s Wrath
Rev 16:4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
The 6th Trumpet Sounds
Rev 9:13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
v14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
v15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.
v16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
v17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.
v18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
v19 For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.
v20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
v21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
The 4th Plaque of God’s Wrath
Rev 16:8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
v9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory. = The Sun Explodes
The 5th Plaque of God’s Wrath
Rev 16:10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
v11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds. = The Earth in Darkness
The 6th Plaque of God’s Wrath
Rev 16:12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
v13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
v14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
The 2nd Coming of Jesus Christ
Rev 16:15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
Mat 24:29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
V30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
1Th 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
v15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
v16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
v17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
The Rapture takes place.
1Th 4:v16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
v17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Mat 24:30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Mat 24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
And then finally the Battle of Armageddon.
Rev 16:16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
V17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.
– ALL These events in 3 and half Year Period. –
With this Info, I personally think that the full 3 and half Years of the Great Tribulation will not be a Christian Tribulation only, I Think that a Larger Part of this Great tribulation will be an Unbeliever Tribulation that we as Christians will witness!
I would like to break this 3 and a half Year Great Tribulation up into 3 Sections according to John’s Clue he left us in Revelations Chapter 12.
Time, Times and Half a Time.
S1. The 1st Year. (Time) Let’s call this “The Antichrist’s Year!”
In this Year the Following events will happen!
– The Abomination of Desolation.
– Then the Marking or Sealing of The Judean Jews must take place.
– Then the Jews that are in Judea have to flee.
– Then the 666 Mark of Beast is implemented.
– Then Christians that did not take the 666 are marked with the Seal of God in their foreheads.
S2. The 2nd and 3rd Years. (Times) Let’s Call This “The Wrath of God’s 2 Years”
In these Years the Following events will happen!
– Christian then go into Angel Protection before the 5th Trumpet Sounds, Just before the Wrath of God takes Place on Earth against the Bearers of the Mark of the Beast.
– The 5th Trumpet Sounds.
– The Wrath of God Starts.
– The 1st Plaque
– The 2nd Plaque
– The 3rd Plaque
– The 6th Trumpet Sounds
S3. The Last 6 Months (Half a Time) Let’s Call This “The Rescue in the Darkness”
In these 6 Months the Following events will happen!
It will start with the Sun Exploding!
– The 4th Plaque , Great Heat and Fires
– The 5th Plaque , Sun burned out , total Darkness on Erath and the Heavens
– The 6th Plaque , Armies of the world get ready to Battle God
– The 2nd Coming of Jesus Christ
– The Rapture of the Christians
And then finally the Battle of Armageddon.
This Statement of Jesus Comes to mind!
Mat 24:22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
Yes ! We will be prosecuted in the 1st Year of the Great Tribulation, the Antichrist forcing the Christians and the Jews to take the Mark of the Beast.
Rev 12:17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
But the Majority of the Great Tribulation Period will be 100 % for the Bearers of the Mark of the Beast. Actually 2 and Half Years of the Great Tribulation will be a Un Believer Tribulation.
AND I also believe that the Holy Spirit will assist us to flee the Antichrist in the 1st Year called the “Year of the Antichrist”
For this we need to look at what happens in the 1st 3 and half Years of the Peace Agreement, the 1290 days before the Abomination of Desolation.
What will be the Events prior to the Great Tribulation!
– The Arrival of the Jewish Messiah.
– The Peace Agreement
– The Birth of the Country Palestine in the Old Judea (West Bank)
– And The Great Christian Revival and Last outpouring of the Holy Spirit
We see that the Last Great Revival will take place in the 1st 3 and Half years of the Peace agreement, just before the Great Tribulation and the Wrath of God takes place!
Acts Chapter 2 Confirms This:
Act 2:16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
v17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
v18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
v19 And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
v20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
v21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
99 % of Christians never read the full description of these verses; this actually confirms that the Great Revival and Last Holy Spirit Baptism will take Place before the Great Tribulation before the Abomination of Desolation.
Most Pastors and Teachers only teach verses 16 t0 18. But never looked on the clue of the time that was left for us so clearly!
Let’s Look at Verse 19. This describes the Wrath of God and what Jesus Told us in Matt 24.
Blood – Fresh and sea water becomes Stall Blood, Plaque nr 2 and 3 of God’s Wrath,
Fire – Plaque nr 4 of God’s Wrath = Sun Explodes and Heat Burns people and causes fires on Earth.
Vapour of Smoke = The Super Volcano that erupted during the 5th Trumpet.
Let’s Look at Verse 20; this all confirms what Jesus said in Matt 24
The sun shall be turned into darkness = Plaque 4 of the Wrath of God.
The moon into blood = Plaque 5 of the Wrath of God
before that great and notable day of the Lord come. = The 2nd Coming of Jesus Christ and the Rapture.
What will be the Role, the Holy Spirit will play in the Great Tribulation. The portion the Christians calls the “Year of the Antichrist”
The Role of the Holy Spirit during the 7 Year Peace Agreement
Helping us to identify the False Prophet and the Antichrist!
(1Co 12:3) Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
1Jn 4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
1Jn 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Then during the Peace Agreement Time powering us with Fire to evangelize like never before with Truth!
(Eph 1:13) In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise,
Mar 13:11 But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.
Luk 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
Then pouring out the Spirit into us for the Last time at the Last Great Revival during the 1st Part of the 7 Year Peace Agreement! Just before the Great Tribulation, the Wrath of God and the 2nd Coming of Jesus Christ
Act 2:17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
v18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
v19 And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
v20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
v21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
And then His Comforting Role will be needed when we need to leave all our Luxuries and current home behind when the 666 are implemented!
Jud 1:17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
v18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
v19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
v20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
v21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
v22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:
v23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
v24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
v25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Then we need the Leading Power of the Holy Spirit to guide us to Safety to flee the Antichrist that wants to enforce the Mark of the Beast unto us!
(Luk 4:1) and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
(Rev 13:10) He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
O ye of little faith? God will take care of Use during the Great Tribulation!
Mat 6:31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
v32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
v33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
v34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Another Revelation God showed me for the Period called the Year of the Antichrist comes from
Rev 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
The antichrist will mark all his followers and unbelievers with Mark of the Beast in their right hand under the skin. But all the Christians and Jews, That has taken this mark of the Beast, The 666 voluntary or un-voluntary will be marked in the Forehead.
Why in the Forehead? This is a fail save the Antichrist will bring in against God sealing His people in the Forehead with His seal of protection!
There will be 2 Groups of People that will receive the Seal of God in their foreheads.
The Jews that fled from Judea, from this group only 144 000 would be selected 12000 out of the 12 Tribes of Israel. They will be sealed in the wilderness before they go into Angel Protection.
Rev 7 = Sealing and Rev 12, Angel Protection.
The 2nd Group will be the Christians all over the world that makes out the Great Multitude of Revelations Chapter 7.
Rev 7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
And the Sealing of this Group will take place just before the 5th Trumpet sounds, Rev 9.
Both these Groups will be under Angel Protection on Earth during the Last 3 and half Years prior to the 2nd Coming of Jesus Christ.
This describes a scene in Heaven after the Great Tribulation.
Rev 7:13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
v14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
v15 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.
v16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
v17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
Verse 16 and 17 Confirms all Christians will be under Angel Protection, and we will be taken care of !
V 16 Mentions events that take place during the Wrath of God.
Hunger and Thirst = With all the water on Earth that turned to Blood, There will be no food and water, and the Bearers of the Mark of the Beast will Hunger and Thirst!
Heat of the Sun = the 4th Plaque of the Wrath of God, as the Sun Explodes!
Jesus and His Angels will take care of us during the Great tribulation and Beyond in the Wrath of God time period!
I want to close with verses from Psalm 91, Psalm 91 was written to describe the Christian view and witness of the Wrath of God Period!
Psa 91:1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
v2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
v3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. *(The Armies of the Antichrist)
v4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. *(Angel Protection)
v5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; *(The 6th Trumpet War)
v6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
v7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
v8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. *(The Reward of the Wicked = The Wrath of God)
v9 Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
v10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. *(The Plaques of God’s Wrath)
v11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
v12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
v13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
v14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
v15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
v16 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
PUT ALL YOUR TRUST IN GOD, AND REPENT TO GOD FOR BELIEVING IN THE BIGGEST LIE OF SATAN , THE PRE AND MID TRIBULATION RAPTURE!
Article by Pastor Dirk – TruLight Ministries International
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The Digital ID Gatekeeper Is Coming To Windows
For most of the personal computer’s history, the relationship was simple: you owned the machine, opened a program, and expected it to obey. But Microsoft is preparing Windows for a very different digital future–one in which applications may first ask the operating system what kind of person is sitting behind the screen and whether that person has been verified.
Microsoft’s new Windows Age APIs will allow participating apps to request the age range of a signed-in user. Windows can report that the user is under 10, 10-12, 13-15, 16-17, or 18 and older. It can also tell the app whether that age has been verified, remains unverified, or whether the user has opted out.
Microsoft describes this as a privacy-preserving system because applications receive an age bracket rather than a precise birthday. But behind that reassuring language sits a much larger change: Windows is being equipped to serve as an identity gatekeeper between the user and the software.
The computer will not simply open the door. It will be able to tell the app whether the user carries the right credentials to enter.
Protecting Children–or Classifying Everyone?
The immediate justification is child safety. Apps could use the signal to restrict mature media, social features, user-generated content, communications, in-app purchases, and virtual currencies. Parents understandably want children protected from pornography, predators, addictive platforms, and inappropriate commercial practices.
But a system cannot reliably identify children without also classifying adults. If an application must know who is under 18, every adult may eventually be expected to prove that he or she is over 18.
California is already pushing technology companies in this direction. Its Digital Age Assurance Act, scheduled to take effect in 2027, requires covered operating-system providers to offer an interface for recording a user’s age or birth date and to transmit an age-range signal to qualifying applications.
What begins as a child-protection measure can therefore become an identity requirement for the entire population. Once the infrastructure exists, age may be only the first attribute it is used to verify.
Microsoft Once Warned About The Danger
Microsoft itself recognized the threat only a few years ago. In 2024, the company acknowledged that there was no clear technical solution capable of accurately verifying age without potentially creating serious tradeoffs involving privacy, security, civil rights, government surveillance, anonymity, and freedom of expression.
Those dangers have not vanished. The pressure to implement the technology has simply grown.
Microsoft’s current system requires the user to be signed into a Microsoft account, and its documentation says identity-provider age signals are presently retrieved only for Microsoft accounts. Apps must also request access to account information, and users can withhold consent.
But what happens when refusing consent means losing access?
An “opt-out” button provides little protection if applications begin denying communication features, purchases, media, or other services to anyone whose status remains unverified. People may retain the theoretical freedom to refuse while being progressively excluded for exercising it.
Soon We May All Be Asked To Prove We Are Human
Age verification is arriving as the internet faces an even greater identity crisis.
Artificial intelligence can already create convincing faces, voices, photographs, documents, and videos. Deepfakes can impersonate political leaders, pastors, family members, and corporate executives. Criminals can clone a loved one’s voice, manufacture an emergency, and demand money before the victim realizes the call was artificial.
AI agents will deepen the problem. These systems are becoming capable of operating computers, opening accounts, sending messages, making purchases, and completing online tasks with decreasing human supervision. Hackers and organized criminals will use them to automate fraud, overwhelm security systems, infiltrate communities, and create armies of believable digital identities.
In that environment, “Are you old enough?” may soon be followed by an even more consequential question: “Are you actually human?”
Simple CAPTCHA tests will not be enough. Platforms may demand government identification, facial scans, device credentials, financial-account confirmation, or digital identity wallets. The more convincing artificial people become, the more difficult anonymous humans may find it to prove they are real without revealing exactly who they are.
Deepfakes and AI fraud could succeed where earlier digital ID campaigns struggled. People who would never voluntarily accept universal identity checks may embrace them when presented as the only way to distinguish humans from machines.
The Operating System Becomes The Trust Broker
Windows occupies the perfect position to manage this new system. Instead of every application independently verifying every user, the operating system can become the central trust broker.
Today, Windows is preparing to report an age bracket and verification status. Tomorrow, similar architecture could potentially tell an application that a person’s identity is verified, a device belongs to that person, a transaction was initiated by a human, or an AI agent has permission to act on someone’s behalf.
The threats driving this transformation are real. Deepfakes will ruin reputations. AI-powered fraud will steal money. Bots will make online communities increasingly difficult to trust. But real dangers can still be used to justify systems carrying dangers of their own.
The infrastructure being built promises safety, privacy, and convenience. It may also establish a new principle: before your computer obeys you, an outside authority must confirm that you are authorized to proceed.
Children provide the first justification. Deepfakes, hackers, and AI agents may provide the next. The final result could be a digital world in which anonymity is treated as suspicious, identity becomes the price of participation, and permission comes before access.
10 Ways LGBTQ+ Ideology Is Reshaping The Church
Walk into certain churches today and you may encounter something that would be almost unrecognizable to Christians who worshiped in the same denominations only a generation ago.
Rainbow flags surround the sanctuary. Pastors preach in Pride-colored vestments. Worship services feature queer hymns and transgender themes. Glitter replaces traditional ashes. Rainbow bread appears at Communion. Special ceremonies celebrate transgender name changes, while Pride Month brings its own sermons, liturgies and church celebrations.
These aren’t simply changes in decoration or attempts to make visitors feel welcome. Taken together, they reveal how deeply LGBTQ+ ideology has worked its way into the worship and theology of parts of the modern church.
Christianity already has its own worship, hymns, sacraments, symbols, sacred language and understanding of identity. Increasingly, each is being reworked through the lens of sexuality and gender.
Here are ten of the clearest examples.
10. Transgender Worship Leaders And Bands
The worship platform has become one of the most visible places for churches to demonstrate LGBTQ+ affirmation. Transgender and nonbinary worship leaders are sometimes deliberately celebrated as representatives of a congregation’s commitment to queer inclusion.
The issue reaches beyond who is holding the microphone. Worship traditionally directs attention toward God. When gender identity itself becomes part of the message communicated from the platform, the purpose of that platform begins to change.
9. Queer Hymns And Trans-Inclusive Worship Songs
Even the songs are being rewritten.
LGBTQ+-affirming hymn collections and worship resources now include songs celebrating queer identity, same-sex relationships and transgender experiences. Traditional Christian language surrounding male and female, marriage, sexuality and identity can be altered to reflect modern gender theology.
Music has always taught theology. What a congregation repeatedly sings eventually helps shape what it believes.
8. Glitter Blessings
Few examples capture the transformation as vividly as “Glitter Ash Wednesday.”
Ash Wednesday traditionally confronts Christians with mortality, repentance and the need for forgiveness: “Remember that you are dust.” Yet some progressive churches have incorporated glitter into ashes or blessings as an expression of LGBTQ+ affirmation.
A solemn Christian practice associated with repentance becomes an opportunity to celebrate identity.
7. Rainbow Communion
Even the Lord’s Supper has received a Pride makeover.
Rainbow-colored Communion bread, Pride-themed Communion tables, rainbow altar coverings and LGBTQ+ imagery have appeared in affirming churches.
Communion was given to point Christians toward the broken body and shed blood of Jesus Christ. When Pride symbolism surrounds—or becomes part of—the sacrament itself, the symbolism competing for the congregation’s attention is impossible to ignore.
6. Transgender Renaming Ceremonies
Some churches now conduct special ceremonies recognizing the new names and gender identities of transgender members.
These services can include prayers, blessings, congregational responses and declarations celebrating a person’s new identity. The language can resemble themes Christians traditionally associate with baptism, belonging and receiving a new identity.
Christianity proclaims that believers receive a new identity in Christ. These ceremonies raise a profound question about what now defines the person standing before the congregation.
5. Pride And Trans-Themed Sermons
The transformation inevitably reaches the pulpit.
Pride sermon series, transgender-focused messages and queer theology increasingly interpret Scripture through the lens of sexual orientation and gender identity. Biblical passages concerning sexuality, marriage and male and female are reinterpreted, minimized or sometimes rejected as incompatible with contemporary understandings.
At that point, the debate has moved far beyond hospitality. It has become a debate over who gets to define Christian truth.
4. Rainbow Symbols Throughout The Sanctuary
Sometimes you don’t need to hear the sermon to understand what a church is proclaiming.
Rainbow flags hang from sanctuary walls. Pride banners appear around altars. Churches illuminate their buildings in rainbow colors. LGBTQ+ symbols appear on church signs, windows and Communion tables—sometimes within sight of the cross itself.
Christians have always understood the power of symbols. The cross communicates something. The empty tomb communicates something. And the rainbow flag communicates something too.
3. Rainbow Clergy Vestments
Pastors themselves have become part of the visual transformation.
Rainbow stoles, Pride-themed robes, pronoun pins and other LGBTQ+ symbols are worn by some clergy during worship. Vestments historically used to communicate Christian seasons, offices and theological truths now become another vehicle for proclaiming sexual and gender identity.
Before the pastor opens the Bible or preaches the first sentence, the congregation has already received a message.
2. Queering The Bible
This transformation reaches much deeper than flags and clothing.
Queer theology can reinterpret Scripture through LGBTQ+ categories, challenge historic Christian understandings of sexuality and gender, reconsider biblical relationships through a queer lens and alter traditional language concerning God.
Once Scripture itself must be reconstructed to accommodate the ideology, everything built upon Scripture can be reconstructed with it: marriage, sexuality, identity, worship, preaching and eventually the Gospel itself.
1. Pride Has Become A Church Season
Christmas. Easter. Pentecost.
Now some churches effectively add Pride Month to the calendar.
June brings Pride Sundays, rainbow decorations, LGBTQ+-themed sermons, special liturgies, Pride marches, concerts and celebrations. Some congregations devote weeks to emphasizing sexual and gender identity in their preaching and worship.
Look at the complete picture.
There is queer worship. Queer hymnody. Glitter blessings. Rainbow Communion. Renaming ceremonies. Pride sermons. Rainbow vestments. Pride symbols. Queer theology. And an annual season devoted to celebrating it.
This is no longer simply a debate about whether Christians should welcome LGBTQ+ people through the church doors. Christians are commanded to love their neighbors, and the Gospel invitation is open to everyone because every one of us comes to Christ as a sinner in need of grace.
But the Gospel does not invite us to remake Christianity around ourselves.
Jesus calls people to repentance, transformation and a new identity in Him. The church’s message was never supposed to be that every desire, identity or cultural movement must be affirmed. It was that every one of us must ultimately surrender ourselves to Christ.
That is why the rainbow flag in the sanctuary is only the most visible part of a much larger transformation.
The greater danger comes when the church becomes so determined to affirm the culture that it eventually creates a Christianity in the culture’s image.
Israel Is Approaching A Prophetic Milestone Few Generations Thought Possible
For nearly 2,000 years, the Jewish people lived primarily outside the land of Israel. They survived expulsions, persecution, pogroms and eventually the Holocaust, scattered across virtually every corner of the world.
Now that extraordinary pattern of history is moving rapidly in the opposite direction.
New figures released by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics estimate the worldwide Jewish population at approximately 15.9 million. About 46 percent of them now live in Israel.
And according to one of the world’s leading Jewish demographers, Israel could cross an astonishing threshold within the next decade: for the first time in the modern era, a majority of the world’s Jews could be living in the land of Israel.
Professor Sergio DellaPergola has projected that the symbolic 50 percent threshold could be crossed as early as 2035 if current demographic trends continue.
For students of Bible prophecy, this is far more interesting than another population statistic.
Something is happening to the Jewish people that the prophets described thousands of years ago.
From 5 Percent To Nearly Half
Consider how dramatically the picture has changed.
At the end of World War II, only about 5 percent of the world’s Jewish population lived in Israel. By 2023, that number had climbed to approximately 45 percent.
Israel’s Jewish population grew from roughly half a million in 1945 to more than seven million, while the Jewish population outside Israel declined over that same broad period.
DellaPergola has described Israel as essentially the major growing component of world Jewry. Higher fertility, immigration and demographic decline or stagnation in many Diaspora communities continue pushing the center of Jewish life toward Israel.
If those trends continue, sometime around the middle of the next decade the scales could finally tip.
After centuries in which the overwhelming majority of Jews lived among the nations, the majority could once again be living in their ancestral homeland.
The prophets repeatedly said such a gathering would happen.
“I Will Gather You”
Ezekiel recorded God’s declaration to Israel:
“I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.” — Ezekiel 36:24
Jeremiah described the same remarkable future:
“He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.” — Jeremiah 31:10
Isaiah spoke of the Lord gathering “the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.” Ezekiel’s famous vision of the dry bones portrayed Israel being restored from what appeared to be national death.
For most of Christian history, these passages presented an extraordinary question.
Where was Israel?
There was no Jewish state. Jerusalem was controlled by successive foreign powers. Jews were scattered throughout Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and eventually the Americas.
Anyone insisting that the prophets meant what they said had to believe that history could somehow reverse itself.
Then came 1948.
Israel returned to the map.
And the gathering continued.
The Prophetic Story Didn’t End In 1948
Christians sometimes speak about the rebirth of Israel as though the prophetic event happened on May 14, 1948, and everything afterward has simply been political history.
But the biblical picture of restoration involves more than establishing a government. It repeatedly involves the Jewish people themselves returning to the land.
That process has continued for nearly eight decades.
Jews arrived from Europe after the Holocaust. Hundreds of thousands came from Middle Eastern and North African countries. Later came enormous waves from the former Soviet Union. Ethiopian Jews were brought home in dramatic airlifts. Jews have continued making aliyah from France, Britain, the United States, Ukraine, Russia and elsewhere.
And the gathering is not merely something found in Israel’s history books. More than 20,000 new olim from over 100 countries are expected to celebrate their first Rosh Hashanah as Israeli citizens this year. Russia, France and the United States lead the list, but newcomers are arriving from across North America, Europe, South America and Australia.
Even more striking is when they are coming. Israel has endured the October 7 massacre, years of war, missile attacks and direct conflict with Iran. War normally sends people fleeing in the opposite direction. Yet thousands of Jews are still packing their belongings and moving toward Israel.
Many are young. Thirty-five percent of this year’s new immigrants are between 18 and 35. One 19-year-old immigrant from New York described how October 7 changed him spiritually: he became more religious and came to see Zionism and faith as inseparable. He moved to Israel and now hopes to serve meaningfully in the IDF.
Other new immigrants speak about deeper meaning, stronger Jewish community and wanting their children to experience a sense of belonging in the land of Israel. For some, October 7 strengthened that sense of solidarity and accelerated a decision already taking shape.
The prophets spoke repeatedly of Jews returning from many countries. What previous generations could only imagine, today’s Israelis can watch arriving through Ben Gurion Airport.
The result is now visible in the numbers.
The nation that contained only a tiny fraction of world Jewry several generations ago is approaching the point where it could contain most of them.
There is no biblical verse declaring that when Israel reaches 50 percent of the world’s Jewish population a prophetic clock strikes midnight. We should not invent prophetic markers Scripture does not give us.
But we should not ignore the direction of history Scripture does give us.
The Jewish people are being concentrated once again in the land of Israel.
Not Just A Physical Return
There is another development unfolding inside Israel that deserves attention. The gathering is geographical, but among many Israelis something spiritual also appears to be stirring.
Since the October 7 attacks and the wars that followed, surveys have documented increased interest in faith and Jewish tradition, particularly among younger Israelis. Prayer, reading the Tanakh and Psalms, wearing tefillin and other expressions of Jewish identity became increasingly visible during the war, including among soldiers.
One major survey found 35 percent of young Jewish Israelis saying their belief in God had increased during the war. Thirty-eight percent said they were praying more, while 26 percent reported reading the Bible or Psalms more frequently. Another survey found 76 percent of Israelis ages 18–34 saying God was important in their lives. Remarkably, 59 percent of that age group said they believed in the coming of the Messiah.
This should not be confused with a nationwide religious revival. Secular Israelis remain a major part of Israeli society, and surveys show the movement toward religion has been much stronger among Israelis who already possessed some connection to Jewish tradition.
But something has clearly been shaken loose.
The generation fighting Israel’s wars is asking questions about God, Jewish identity, the land and Israel’s purpose in history.
And then there is the Temple.
For generations, rebuilding the Jewish Temple could easily be dismissed as the obsession of a tiny religious fringe. Today organizations such as the Temple Institute openly prepare vessels and other items associated with future Temple worship, while Jewish visits and prayer on the Temple Mount have become increasingly prominent political issues.
The subject has even moved into mainstream Israeli politics. Government ministers have ascended the Temple Mount, Jewish prayer there has become increasingly public, and politicians openly sympathetic to establishing greater Jewish sovereignty over Judaism’s holiest site now occupy positions of genuine influence.
For students of prophecy, that development is impossible to ignore.
Daniel 9 speaks of sacrifice being stopped. Jesus points His disciples back to Daniel’s “abomination of desolation” while describing future events. Paul describes a future “man of sin” sitting in the temple of God. Revelation 11 even speaks of measuring the Temple of God and its altar.
Those passages have led generations of prophecy scholars to conclude that some form of Jewish Temple and sacrificial worship will exist during the events surrounding the end of the age.
We are not there today.
But the conversation itself has changed dramatically.
The same land that once had almost no Jews, no Jewish state, no Jewish army and no Jewish sovereignty over Jerusalem now contains more than seven million Jews—and within it is a growing movement openly talking about the Temple again.
That is an extraordinary reversal of history.
The End-Times Map Is Taking Shape
This becomes even more significant when we look beyond the restoration prophecies.
Many passages concerning the last days assume something remarkable: Israel exists, Jews inhabit the land, and Jerusalem occupies the center of world attention.
Zechariah describes Jerusalem becoming “a burdensome stone for all people” and eventually portrays the nations gathering against Jerusalem.
Daniel’s prophetic visions repeatedly return attention to Israel and Jerusalem.
Jesus warned about future events taking place in Judea and told those living there to flee when they saw the signs He described.
Revelation 11 places Jerusalem at the center of extraordinary events during the Tribulation.
None of this looked remotely plausible for most of the last 2,000 years.
Imagine reading those passages in 1750.
There was no State of Israel. There was no Israeli government. There was no Jewish army. Most Jews lived hundreds or thousands of miles from Jerusalem.
Yet the prophetic Scriptures continued talking about Israel as though the nation would someday be there.
Today it is.
And now the Jewish people themselves are increasingly there as well.
History Is Moving Toward Jerusalem
Perhaps one of the most remarkable aspects of Bible prophecy is that the world increasingly resembles the geopolitical landscape Scripture said would exist before the culmination of history.
Israel has returned.
Jerusalem is again the capital and heartbeat of the Jewish nation.
The Jewish population has been gathering from the nations.
Israel is surrounded by enemies while simultaneously becoming one of the most scrutinized countries on earth.
And now another milestone appears on the horizon.
Within roughly a decade, most Jews on planet Earth may be living in Israel.
Previous generations of Christians read Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Zechariah and Revelation and believed these things by faith. They could see little evidence around them suggesting how literally such circumstances might someday emerge.
We have the opposite problem.
We can become so accustomed to Israel being on the evening news that we forget how extraordinary its very existence is.
The question isn’t whether crossing 50 percent fulfills a particular prophecy.
The more important question is how many prophetic pieces must fall into place before we recognize the larger picture.
The God who said He would scatter Israel also said He would gather Israel.
And before our eyes, the scattered people are coming home.
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