IS THIS THE COVENANT?


IS THIS THE COVENANT?

                The long awaited peace deal has finally been hammered out by Jared Kushner and friends. It will be presented to Israel sometime next week. So we wait to see what the details of this peace plan will include.

                We live in momentous times and so given everything else that is going on in the world we find ourselves wondering if this is the covenant with many spoken of in Daniel 9:26, 27, or if it is the peace and safety covenant that ends in sudden destruction?

                If this brokered peace plan clears the way for the 3rd temple to be built in Jerusalem, then we are looking at a major end time event. Many deny that the third temple will ever be built simply because it doesn’t fit their prophetic view, but the truth is, everything from the building to the furniture, to the priesthood, to the incense, to the Red Heifer is all in place so that the third temple could be operational within 6 months after the peace deal is signed.

                Back in the mid- 1800s Sir Isaac Newton, the world famous scientist and avid Prophecy student concluded that in order for end time prophecies to be fulfilled Israel would have to come back into their own land and the temple would have to be built.

                It has been this vastly impossible series of events that has stumped prophecy students for centuries. It caused many to resort to allegorical method of interpretation making these events spiritual rather than literal and physical. There was no way that Israel could ever come back into their own land. They had been scattered and diffused, persecuted and hunted into extinction. Satan had made sure that their culture, their language and their people had been completely wiped out.

                The only problem with impossibilities is that God pretty much ignores them… in fact He thrives on them. So the scriptures are peppered with unlikely statements like:

                “For I will take you from the nations, gather you from the lands and bring you into your own land.” Ezekiel 36:24 (or)

                “I will put My Spirit within you and you will come to life and I will place you on your own land. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken and done it, “declares the Lord.” Ez. 37:14

                Zech. 12:10 speaks of the day when they will look upon Him whom they have pierced and they will mourn for Him and Zechariah places this event at the second coming of Christ when Jesus will set foot on the Mt. of Olives and there will be a great earthquake in Israel . “Then the Lord My God will come and all the holy ones with Him.” Zech. 14:5.

                Then in Zech. 14:16 speaking about the final battle of Armageddon, it says: “then it will come about that any who are left of all the nations that went against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King the Lord of hosts and to celebrate the Feast of Booths.” This speaks of the millennial reign of Christ over all the earth.

                In Joel chapter 2 and three, in speaking about the great and awesome day of the Lord he speaks of those who will escape and survive in Joel 2:31, 31and then in Chapter 3 he says: “For behold, in those days and at that time when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. Then I will enter into judgment with them there on behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel whom they have scattered among the nations and they have divided up My land.” Joel 3:1, 2

                Amos 9:11-15 tells of restoring Israel to its land and rebuilding the walls and breaches and raise up the ruins and rebuild it, the booth of David in the last days. He ends up by saying: “I will also plant them on their land and they will not again be rooted out from their land which I have given to them.” says the Lord.”

                This is just a few of many such promises for the last days… and of course Jesus tells us that the ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION will take place in the temple in connection with the Tribulation and the Second coming and Revelation 1:7 refers to Zechariah’s statement in Zech. 12: 10 saying: “Behold He is coming with the clouds and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him.”

                So Israel is back in their land. Israel is indeed a cup of trembling as promised in Zechariah 12: 1-3, a peace deal possibly the covenant with many mentioned in Daniel 9: 26, 27 is about to be announced and we can’t help but wonder if we are really that close to the end. If so, then it is the antichrist who confirms this covenant with the many and all we can do is to watch and pray and to see if this is it.

                There are many end time scenarios and rather than fight over them we must simply wait and see which scenario plays out in the end. Blessings my friends… gotta run.

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