Israel's
Captivity and Return
Israel celebrates the "Jubilee" every 50 years.
Thursday September
24th 2015
was the commencement of Israel's 70th
Jubilee since after taking possession of the Promised Land [Canaan].
It
is the 40th Jubilee since
Jesus came to Jerusalem in His First Advent.
The word “Jubilee” comes from the
Hebrew “yobel”, which means to be "jubilant" and to
"exult." The word is related to the Hebrew word for ram's horn or
trumpet. The Jubilee Year is launched with a blast from a ram's horn on the Day
of Atonement, signifying a call to joy, liberation, and the beginning of a year
for "doing justice" and "loving mercy."
Part of the reason why God established
the Jubilee Year is to prevent the Israelites from oppressing one another (see Lev
25:17). One of its effects is to prevent a permanent system of classes. The
Jubilee Year has a leveling effect on Israel's culture; giving everyone a
chance to start over, economically and socially.
The Jubilee speaks of God's Will for
Liberty for His people. He wants people to be free (read Luke 4:18-19).
The Jubilee witnesses to
God's desire for Justice in the Earth and calls into question any social
practices that lead to permanent bondage and economic disadvantage.
The
United Nations (UN) commenced its 70th General Assembly on the 25th of September 2015. A total of 150 heads of states attended the summit in the
US, making it the largest gathering of world leaders since the inception of the
UN.
The UN aims for a one world
order, one world bank, one world constitution, one world army, one world tax.
They believe that
humanity can only reach the goal of global peace and security through the
creation of a world government.
They invite nations to yield up their
sovereignty, and recognize a single global authority. They believe that
“globalization” will transform the world economies and working practices, as a
new doctrine of international community.
This world government administration
will be headed by a ruthless and salvage "ten horn dictators". They
plan to rule the world, but ultimately this will lead to a global economic
crash; it’s going to lead to a great distress for Israel, and trigger the greatest
war the Earth has ever seen. It is going to create "hell on Earth"
for a period of 3 ½ years.
They plan to divide the
land of Israel, and setup a “2-state solution”: namely Israel and Palestine.
The Palestinian flag was
flown at the United Nations 70th General Assembly for the first
time, along with the flags of member-nations, in alphabetical manner.
Number 70 is the biblical number for “Israel's Captivity and Return.”
The “70 Weeks” of
Daniel’s Prophecy is God’s ‘final timetable’ for Israel, within which, the
Salvation and final Redemption of the Gentile Christians also takes place in
the Earth.
“The 70 Weeks of Daniel’s prophecy”
refers to 70 sevens of years, i.e. 70 x 7 years which is a total of 490 years—equivalent
of 14 generations.
"Seventy
'sevens' are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish
transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in
Everlasting Righteousness, to seal up Vision and Prophecy and to anoint the
Most Holy.
"Know
and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild
Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the Ruler, comes, there will be seven
'sevens,' and sixty-two 'sevens.' It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench,
but in times of trouble. After the sixty-two 'sevens,' the Anointed One will be
cut off and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will
destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will
continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed. He will confirm a
covenant with many for one 'seven.' In the middle of the 'seven' he will put an
end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing [of the temple] he will set up an
abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out
on him."
Dan
9:24-27 NIV
In "the 7th Week"
was the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem, championed by Nehemiah in
troublous times; this took 49 years.
At the end of the 62nd Week
was the crucifixion of Christ by the Roman Empire in A.D.33. The very week on the Hebrew Calendar, when the Jews were to
crucify Him, He told them that they failed to know the time of their visitation
by rejecting Him as their Messiah.
At the point of ‘the 69th
Week’, God temporarily abandoned His program with Israel and a "prophetic
gap" ensued.
The Scriptures make it clear that
temporal or partial blindness has happened to the Jews until “the fullness of
times of the Gentiles.” Let’s take a look at these two passages of Scripture on
this.
And
when He was come near, He beheld the city, and wept over it, Saying, If thou
hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto
thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
For
the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about
thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,
And
shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they
shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the
time of thy Visitation.
Luke
19:41-44 KJV
For
I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye
should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to
Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
Romans
11:25 KJV
When God temporarily
abandoned His program for the nation of Israel, the gap which ensued is “the
Church Age” which is still present. When
Christ, the Messiah was crucified, the Church Age began. Definitely, it is the
event of “the Rapture” that will terminate "the Church Age"
“The 70th Week” does not
begin until the antichrist makes his peace pact with Israel.
And
he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the
week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the
overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the
consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate (Daniel
9:27 KJV).
And so, whenever the
antichrist signs this peace treaty with Israel and several Arab states, it
means that “the 70th Week” of Daniel’s prophecy of “Seventy Sevens,” which is
the last 7 years that will complete the 490 years has begun.
The antichrist ‘will confirm a covenant
with many’ within the closing of the Church Age.
The 7 years of the antichrist’s reign
on the Earth are divided into two parts: the first will be a 3 ½ years of peace
and security in “the New World Order,” known as “the lesser (or minor)
tribulation.” But, the second-half will be the time of “the Great Tribulation.”
Jeremiah 30:7 refers to this period as
“the time of Jacob’s trouble.”
For
then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world
until now — and never to be equaled again. If those days had not been cut
short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the Elect those days will be
shortened (Matthew 24:21-22 NIV).
“…The
end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations
have been decreed” (Dan. 9:26).
Thank God that “the Church Age” will
elapse before “the Great Tribulation.” There shall be an evacuation of God’s
saints from this planet before the worst of hell will break loose on the Earth.
The Temple will be rebuilt in Jerusalem
in troublesome times. But, verse 27 of Daniel 9 states:
And
on a wing [of the temple] he will set up an abomination that causes desolation
(NIV).
Armed forces of the antichrist shall rise
up to desecrate the temple in the holy land and they shall pollute the sanctuary,
and shall take away the daily burnt offering. Then they will set up “the
abomination of desolation.”
"His
armed forces will rise up to desecrate the temple fortress and will abolish the
daily sacrifice. Then they will set up the abomination that causes desolation (Dan.
11:31NIV).
“The antichrist” will set himself in
the temple of GOD, and declare to the world that he is God.
He
will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is
worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God's temple, proclaiming himself to
be God (2 Thess. 2:4 NIV).
This the Bible calls: “the abomination
of desolation.” The climax of “the mystery of iniquity.”
Revelation 13 reveals that “the false
prophet of the antichrist” will set up “the image of the beast” on his behalf,
and with this he will deceive multitudes in the Earth.
Because
of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast, he deceived
the inhabitants of the Earth. He ordered them to set up an image in honor of
the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived (Rev 13:14 NIV).
The Israel that is by
faith” will receive ‘forgiveness’ and ‘redemption’ after the years of final
onslaught by “the Revised Rome” (last resurrection of The Holy Roman Empire)
with “the antichrist” at the helm of affairs.
Israel will have to undergo great
perilous times during the regime and control of the last Gentile world empire;
the Revised Rome [a 10 nation European confederacy] which is coming on the
world-stage by political and economic unification.
Israel with the Arabs will
enter into a 7 year peace treaty with the leader of “Fortress Europe” and about
the end of the first “three and half years,” within the time of the ‘accord,’
the Jews will break this ‘accord’ because the antichrist will try to stop them
from offering sacrifices to the God of Heaven. As a result of this
disagreement, the antichrist will persecute the Jews terribly and would have nearly
totally annihilated them before The Second Coming of Christ.
When Christ returns, He will judge the
nations, and Israel’s spiritual restoration will take place during His “Millennial
Reign” upon the Earth. He will overthrow “the
dragon,” and bring to an end the reign of ‘the beast’ and ‘the false prophet’.
Israel will be forgiven and completely
restored!
At the completion of the 490 years
which are decreed upon Israel and Jerusalem—the holy city; the sins of Israel
will be purged— sin will be put to an end. And there will be Everlasting
Righteousness.
"Seventy
'sevens' are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish
transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in
Everlasting Righteousness, to seal up Vision and Prophecy and to anoint the
Most Holy (Dan. 9:24).
The Prince of Peace will stand upon the
temple mount.
Israel’s rebellion shall be pardoned at
the end of the 3 ½ years Great Tribulation of the dragon’s persecution—then,
“the Elect” will be “Called Away.”