ENDTIME BIBLE PROPHECY New American Standard Bible

Bible Prophecy Prophetic Timeline: Restoration of Israel and Jerusalem Prophetic Signs That We Are Near The End (2000) Rapture Seven-Year Period of Daniel Great Tribulation Day Of The Lord Armageddon Second Coming And The Millennium Great White Throne Judgment

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RETURN OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO ISRAEL (1948)

The return of the Jews to Israel is the key to bible prophecy. Most other endtime prophecies depend on the Jewish people living in Israel and not scattered amongst the Gentiles. Israel has not existed as a nation since hundreds of years before the birth of Christ. Israel was established on May 15, 1948.

Deuteronomy 4:27-28,30-31 ²⁷The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive and the nations to which God will drive you. ²⁸But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find him if you search for him with all your heart and all your soul. ³⁰When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in latter days you will return to the LORD your God and obey him. ³¹For the LORD your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant (the land of Israel) with your forefathers, which he confirmed to them all.

• Moses predicted that the Jews would be scattered throughout the world and persecuted as has occurred for the last three thousand years and that one day the Jews would return to God and to the land of Israel which he promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Jeremiah 30:3 'For behold, days are coming,' declares the LORD, 'when I will restore the fortunes of My people Israel and Judah.' The LORD says, 'I will also bring them back to the land that I gave to their forefathers and they shall possess it."

Isaiah 11:11 Then it will happen on that day that the Lord will again recover the second time with His hand The remnant of His people, who will remain, From Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, And from the islands of the sea.

Joel 3:1-2 ¹"For behold, in those days and at that time, When I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, ²I 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,

Amos 9:11 "In that day I will raise up the fallen booth of David, And wall up its breaches; I will also raise up its ruins And rebuild it as in the days of old;

• Foresaw the restoration of Israel in one day (May 15, 1948).

Ezekiel 36:24,33-35 ²⁴"For I will take you from the nations, gather you from all the lands and bring you into your own land. ³³"Thus says the Lord GOD, "On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places will be rebuilt. ³⁴"The desolate land will be cultivated instead of being a desolation in the sight of everyone who passes by. ³⁵"They will say, 'This desolate land has become like the garden of Eden; and the waste, desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.'

• Israel is restored in one day and becomes a land of milk and honey in this current time.

Hosea 9:10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your forefathers as the earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season. But they came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to shame, And they became as detestable as that which they loved.

Jeremiah 24:2-4 ²One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, and the other basket had very bad figs which could not be eaten due to rottenness. ³Then the LORD said to me, "What do you see, Jeremiah?" And I said, "Figs, the good figs, very good; and the bad figs, very bad, which cannot be eaten due to rottenness." ⁴Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, ⁵"Thus says the LORD God of Israel, "Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans.

• The fig tree is used by Hosea and Jeremiah to refer to Jewish people.

Matthew 24:32-33 ³²Now learn the parable from the fig tree: when its branch has already become tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near; ³³even so you too, when you see all these things, recognize that he is near, right at the door.

• Israel the fig tree has put forth its leaves and been reborn as a nation therefore the the coming of Christ draws near.

 RETURN OF JERUSALEM TO JEWISH CONTROL (1967)

Luke 21:24 And they will fall by the edge of the sword and will be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

• This passage was fulfilled in 1967 after Israel took over all of Jerusalem in the six-day war.
• The times of the Gentiles began with the Apostle Paul's missionary work in the first century. Prior to this time God's ministry was preached mainly to the Jewish people.

We are the last generation of this earth.

Luke 21:32 Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all things take place.

• This reading from Luke occurs after the signs and warnings Jesus gave of the end of the age and the prophecy of Jerusalem's return to Jewish control. Therefore the generation that will not pass away would seem to refer to the generation in place in 1967.
• How long is a generation? Based on other bible passages it could be:

40 years - Numbers 32:13 "So the LORD'S anger burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the entire generation of those who had done evil in the sight of the LORD was destroyed.

70 years - Psalm 90:10 As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, or if due to strength, eighty years, yet their pride is but labor and sorrow; for soon it is gone and we fly away.

120 years - Genesis 6:3 Then the Lord said, "My spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he is also flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.

• This would put the end of this generation in the year 2007, 2037, or 2087.
• Some biblical scholars feel that the generation that Jesus referred to was present when Israel became a nation. Therefore the end of this generation in this viewpoint could be 1988, 2018, or 2068. 

Matthew 24:36-37 ³⁶But of that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone. ³⁷For the coming of the Son Of Man will be just like the days of Noah.

• Remember know one except our father in heaven knows the exact date or hour of the rapture or tribulation. However, he allows us to see the signs and indications that his return is near. We must always be ready.

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