EZEKIEL'S GREAT PROPHESIES (36-39)

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Some Bible enthusiasts think WE ARE starting fulfillment of Old Testament Ezekiel's prophesies in chapters 36-39 of that great book.

Developing situations in Asia, Israel, Iran, etc., are leading to such thinking.

I think there is much much more to the equasion than this.

The Kings and Rulers in Psalm 2 (below) are driving the world intensionally, toward a train wreck.

They are using a "perfect storm" strategy.

There has been a huge military buildup in the Persian Gulf area in this last month (January 2012).

See news report.

It sure looks like an attack on Iran is determined and imminent.

And it is likely to make for lots of trouble world wide.

I think there will be a huge, apparently spontaneous, uprising from the, pre-arranged "occupy wall street" folks, demanding a one world government to save us.

This is, of course, the exact, intentional, objective of the globalists.

The Anti-Christ will eventually appear on the scene, to lead this government, and under his power the Seventieth Week of Daniel (see below) will commence and provide the umbrella of protection for Ezekiel 36 & 37.

HOWEVER, I THINK THE ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT WILL BE FORMED, AND, IT WILL TAKE SOME TIME BEFORE EZEKIEL'S PROPHESY STARTS.

I THINK THE GLOBAL GOVERNMENT WILL NEED SOME TIME TO DO THE PREPARATORY WORK, SO EZEKIEL'S PROPHESY CAN GET GOING.

TO PUT IT ANOTHER WAY, THEY NEED SOME TIME TO GET THEIR ACT TOGETHER. But, maybe not very much.

BEFORE THEY ARE READY FOR THE ANTI-CHRIST TO COME, AND THEY HAND THE WORLD GOVERNMENT OVER TO HIM.

WITH THE RECENT HUGE MILITARY BUILDUP NEAR THE STRAITS OF HORMUZ, IT SURE LOOKS LIKE WORLD LEADERS ARE READY TO DO IT.

Realize, (see Psalm 2 below and some of my other web pages), that the world leaders are working for the same supernatural, evil, Satan, Devil.

It has to be largely choreographed well ahead of time.

It will look to us non-elite folks like all hell is breaking loose.

It will be terrifying -- the only chance of survival may seem to be a one world government.

There is that old globalist saying, "World problems demand world solutions."

But, I believe, it will, mostly, be for this exact effect.

The nations which seem to be in conflict are secretly just acting it out.

There is plenty of evidence, that the earnest effort to form a one world government has been going on for two hundred years, at least.

They are using the well known boiling frog trick.

I don't know if frogs are this dumb, but it makes a good illustration.

The story goes -- you put the frog in a pan of water, at room temperature.

You then increase the temperature ever so slowly.

The frog won't sense the slow temperature change, and will cook to death -- and you have your frog legs dinner.

Same way, the globalists have slowly changed many things over a long time period, and most of us frogs have not noticed, until lately anyway.

Now it is too late.

The only way out, would be a serious mass turning back to the real God.

But, I do not see this happening.

Psalm 2 shows a very very real conspiracy to overthrow God:

NOTE The "Kings" are NOT THE RULERS -- BECAUSE THE RULERS ARE DEMONS -- SEE DANIEL CHAPTER 2 BELOW.

¹Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

²The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,

³Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

⁴He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision.

⁵Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.

⁶Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

⁷I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

⁸Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

⁹Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

¹⁰Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.

¹¹Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

¹²Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

NOTE THAT JESUS IS THE ONLY ESCAPE. THERE IS NO OTHER WAY OUT!

And the armies which were in heaven followed him..

And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. Rev19

At my page - Living in the Prophet Daniel's Fourth Kingdom I quote
Daniel chapter 2 (Old Testament):
NOTE - THE IRON GUYS ARE DEMONS, THE CLAY GUYS HUMANS
⁴⁰And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.
⁴¹And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
⁴²And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
⁴³And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
⁴⁴And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
THE FIRST "THEY" GUYS IN VERSE 43 ARE DEMONS.
EPHESIANS 6 (NEW TESTAMENT) SAYS:
¹²For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. (Supernatural beings are in view here)
Regarding the Great Seal of the U.S. shown above.
Incidentally, 32nd U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a Freemason, had the Great Seal placed onto the 1$ U.S. bill.
Research will show that, some, perhaps many of the founders of the U.S were Freemasons and that the origin of the pyramid picture comes from ancient occult sources.
I think there is a dualism here - it applies to the U.S., at its founding, as a New kind of thing among nations, but also to a New World Order, global government of the Earth.
The eye is, in the dualism, said to be the eye of God or Providence, but in the dualism, the eye the "god of this world," "the great architect of the world" Satan, actually.
2Corinthians 4:4 (New Testament) says:
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
I believe many highly placed people, when they speak of "GOD," are, in their minds, refering to Satan - he IS their god.
A pyramid is completely foreign to the true God of the Bible.
A pyramid reminds us of Egypt, which God delivered Israel out of.
--And figuratively delivers Christians out of.
There is a saying we hear "If you build it I will come."
Meaning, if humans get the one world government pretty well finished, Satan, in the person of the Anti-Christ will come to reign.
The globalist hope is that he will defeat God. (Psalm 2)
I believe many leaders, when they say God, they mean Satan.
The Apostle Paul said in 2 Corinthians 4:4:
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
It seems to me, this huge military buildup in the Persian Gulf, this month, is NOT for practice.
It is war time.
Thus, they would be starting in earnest the preparatory work for Ezekiel's prophesy to begin to unfold.
I don't believe for a single second, the world rulers are NOT fully aware of this (Ezekiel 36-39).
The Anti-Christ wants a fully reformed Israel, and a re-built Temple.
Somewhere along the line Gog and Magog and their Allies will be forced (with hook in their jaw) into an invasion of Israel as seen in chapters 38 & 39.
The hook in the jaw will be necessary because they will be attacking Israel being protected by the great power of the Antichrist.
Ezekiel's prophesies include repopulating Israel, and continues with the new Millennial Temple.
I think we must expect a Tribulation temple first, where the "abomination of desolation" will take place (see below.)
Book of Revelation 20 is not for the faint of heart, but is important here.
Ezekiel's prophesy, chapter 40-48, implements the 1000 year reign of the righteous dead (first resurrection) seen in verses 4-6 below.
They reign with Jesus Christ 1000 years. Revelation 5:10 specifies that they reign on Earth.
¹And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
²And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
³And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
⁴And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. (my emphasis)
⁵But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
⁶Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
Note: Revelation 5:10 specifically says: And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
⁷And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
⁸And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
⁹And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
¹⁰And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
¹¹And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
¹²And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
¹³And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
¹⁴And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
¹⁵And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
There are many great videos on You-Tube, etc., and many web sites covering Ezekiel 36-39.
Also the reader can visit the alternative news web sites to see all of the increasing tensions in the Persian Gulf, and in Asia, and in Palestine etc.
Note -- these involve Iran (Persia), Russia, connected with Gog and Magog in verse 8 above and also in Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39.
Israel is involved of course.
Other nations are involved -- listed in Ezekiel 38,39.
Gog/Magog attacks Israel BOTH before and at end of the Millennium.
I will put the Ezekiel passage itself, in the following sections.
Note that in Ezekiel 36:23-24 God is regathering Israelites from ALL NATIONS.
THIS HAS NOT HAPPENED BEFORE. This is NEW!
There was the Babylonian captivity, but NEVER a dispersion into ALL NATIONS, and a subsequent regathering.
This world wide dispersion occurred after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD, by the Roman Army.
There have been some folks trickle back, but not a large regathering of Israelites as Ezekiel calls for.
THIS IS A MAJOR REASON EZEKIEL 36-48 IS YET FUTURE, BUT PERHAPS, NOT BY MUCH.
Furthermore, Ezekiel 36:25-27 says God will give the ISRAELITES a NEW HEART.
This is NEW.
Note: The New Testament passage Hebrews 8:10, (also in 10:16), says this has ALREADY OCCURRED to Israelites who have embraced Jesus Christ, THUS, becoming Christians.
It is true of all Gentile Christians too.
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
But it is FUTURE, for the Israelites Ezekiel is prophesying about.
This seems clearly to be the expected transition whereby God DISCONTINUES his work with the largely Gentile CHURCH, --
-- AND RESUMES HIS ANCIENT PROGRAM WITH ISRAEL.
Note - New Testament passage Romans 11, below, shows that the Church branches, presently grafted into Israel's root, must be removed, and the natural, Israelite branches re-grafted into their own roots -- for God to resume his program with Israel.
The Church and Israel are two SEPARATE programs of God, as seen BELOW.
They are related though.
Thus, the Church must be removed in the RAPTURE, BEFORE GOD RESTARTS HIS PROGRAM WITH ISRAEL.
1Thessalonians 4:16-17 shows God's removal of the Church, through the atmosphere, known as the Rapture. It says:
¹⁶For 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:
¹⁷Then 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.
After this, God will restart his ancient program with Israel.
THUS, THIS EZEKIEL PASSAGE, IF, it's FULFILLMENT IS STARTING, IS VERY IMPORTANT AND EXCITING.
Romans 11:
²³ And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.
²⁴For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
²⁵For 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.
²⁶And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
²⁷For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
²⁸As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father's sakes.
See my other web pages for more details. They are listed in the column at the left.
Note: The Church CAN be on Earth during the beginning stages of the one world government, BEFORE the Anti-Christ is revealed.
And I expect the Church WILL remain on Earth until God is ready to restart his ancient program with Israel.

Ezekiel's Vision is a c. 1518 painting by Raphael

Prophet Ezekiel's vision of God in majesty, Palatine Gallery, Florence, Italy. Wikipedia

I believe Ezekiel's prophesy must be seen in conjunction with Daniel's (chapter 9) prophesy of Israel's 70 weeks.

The last 7-year, sabbatical, "week" of Daniel's prophesy is when the "Prince that shall Come," will reign on earth.

This "Prince that shall Come," is connected with the "Man of Sin" in 2Thessalonians2, and both are Antichrists.

I SAY BOTH BECAUSE REVELATION 13 TALKS OF TWO BEASTS, ONE FROM THE SEA, ONE FROM THE LAND.

I think it will be his/their umbrella of protection which will allow Israel to be reinstated and flourish as seen in Ezekiel 36-37.

It will be much in his/their interests that Israel be reconstituted, build a temple, and resume their old religious customs.

The Great prophet Daniel said in chapter 9 of Daniel that 70 sabbatical weeks (weeks of years) are granted to Israel, after 69 weeks Christ is killed, (a gap, some say parenthesis, intervenes, which is the present Church Age), and, one seven year Jewish sabbatical week is still to come, with the Temple desecration in mid - week, by the Antichrist, the “Prince that shall Come.”

Daniel says in 9:24-: Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

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. -- Old Testament Book of Daniel, chapter 9.

Notice that this Anti-Christ (Prince that shall come) (who also perpetrates the "abomination of desolation") will confirm the 1 sabbatical week (7 year) covenant with Israel.

This will provide them protection until Gog, Magog and their Allies, being "hooked in the jaws" are dragged to an invasion of Israel.

The 70 weeks are for ISRAEL, NOT, for Christians.

This final 70th week of seven years is understood to be the Tribulation Period, the last half of which is the Great Tribulation.

Jesus said in Matthew 24:

²⁰But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

²¹For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

²²And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

It is believed that this Great Tribulation is the last half of the 7 year Tribulation period, following the Abomination of Desolation.

The Daniel 9 passage indicates this abomination will occur at the mid point of the 7 year period.

²⁵Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

²⁶And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

²⁷And 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.

In stunning confirmation of Daniel 9, Jesus expected them to know the very day of his first coming.

This event is called "Palm Sunday" in many churches.

Luke 19:42-44: And when he (Jesus) was come near, he beheld the city (Jerusalem), 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.

This 70th week is also know as the "Time of Jacob's Trouble."

Jeremiah 30 says:

⁶Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

⁷Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.

⁸For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:

There are numerous web articles on the 70 weeks of Daniel, and many study bibles and commentaries have articles.

The "day and time" in Luke19 can be calculated from information in the Old Testament Book of Daniel, chapter 9.

That is why Jesus expected them to know the very day -- and some of them did indeed know, but most did not.

2Thessalonians 2, below, fits with Daniel 9:

Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 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; 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, showing himself that he is God. Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth (withholds) will let (withhold), until he be taken out of the way.

And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. -- 2Thessalonians 2.

Note, in the second paragraph above tremendous delusion is going to be used -- it will be impossible for non believers to withstand.

This passage is difficult, but there are strong reasons to believe Christians will not be on Earth at the coming of the Man of Sin, but Matthew 24 shows that Jews will be (abomination of desolation).

The believers are scolded in the first two verses of 2Thessalonians2 for being unnerved by reports the Day of Christ was at hand.

The passage starts with, by our gathering together unto him, which would be the Rapture, the evacuation of believers from the earth's face.

This would be PRIOR to "the Day of Christ" -- Christ's coming to the earth's surface in judgment.

We believe that about 7 years later, Christ will return to the earth's surface in judgment.

Thus, these believers would be very alarmed were this coming of Christ to the earth be imminent.

The phrase "falling away," means a departure, often thought of as a departure from the true faith, but in at least two very old bibles is translated, "departure," that is the Rapture.

The Geneva Bible is one of the two -- (genevabible.com and genevabible.org) are neat sites.

This rendering is perfectly legitimate.

I believe God can employ the word in both senses simultaneously, to mean both a departure from the faith, and from the Earth, too!

The “Man of Sin,” is restrained from being revealed until the “withholder” is taken out of the way.

This is undoubtedly the Holy Spirit indwelling true believers.

Removing believers from the earth, would simultaneously remove the restrainer and usher in a very great departure from the true faith.

The latter parts of 2Thessalonians2 describes such.

Note - this Man of Sin entering the Temple occurs mid-week (3.5 years) into the 7 year Tribulation period as expected from Daniel's chapter 9 prophesy.

Christians will be removed before the 7 year period in which the Antichrist, (Prince that shall come / Man of Sin) comes to reign.

As 2 Thessalonians 2 showed, I believe, the presents of the Christian Church prevents the Man of Sin from being revealed.

The first 3.5 years may seem nice, allowing Israel to live in peace and prosperity.

As I said above, the 70 weeks of Daniel contains the event/concept of the "Abomination of Desolation."

In Matthew 24, Jesus used this term referring to the Daniel 9 prophesy.

It is this event which is in view in 2Thessalonians2 with the Man of Sin sitting in the Temple.

This is very strong reason Christians will have been removed already, prior to the last "week" (7year period) of Daniel.

Daniels prophesy applies to Israel, not the Church, although there is a hiatus, a parenthesis, in the prophesy, in which the Church age occurs.

EVENTS TAKING PLACE, OR LIKELY TO TAKE PLACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST SEEM TO BE CLEARING THE WAY FOR EZEKIEL PROPHESY TO BEGIN UNFOLDING.

But for reasons I gave, regarding the "branches" in Romans 11, in 2 Thessalonians 2, and elsewhere, I believe the Church (all true believers) must be removed from the earth, before the Anti-Christ can come on the scene in the last week of Daniel.

We need to make sure we are truly Saved by genuine faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and we need to be about our Lord's business, watching and waiting for the Lord to take us, his Bride, to be with him in heaven.

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John the Baptist baptising Jesus Christ at his entry to public ministry

^{ISRAEL RESTORED TO ITS ANCIENT HOMELAND}

^{There are partial fulfillments of Bible Prophesy.}

^{For example
in Matthew 17 we see Jesus showing that John the Baptist was the forerunner and partial fulfillment of the future return of
Elias (Elijah):}

10And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?

^{11And Jesus answered
and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.}

^{12But
I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise
shall also the Son of man suffer of them.}

^{13Then the disciples understood that
he spake unto them of John the Baptist.}

We have seen, beginning in 1948 the RE-CREATION of Israel in Palestine.

This is a partial fulfillment.

It is a precursor to the full fulfillment of Ezekiel's prophesies.

Later in this chapter (36) we see God puts a new heart and spirit in them and they return to him with contrition of repentance to God.

This has not yet occurred.

Many Christians make the bad mistake of thinking that modern Israel is God's operation.

IT IS NOT -- IT IS THE PRECURSOR TO, THE REINSTATEMENT OF GOD'S OPERATION THROUGH ISRAEL -- BUT WE ARE NOT THERE YET.

IT IS EXCITING TO SEE THAT CONTINUING EVENTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST COULD INDEED FREE UP TO WHOLE ANCIENT LAND OF ISRAEL AS EZEKIEL FORECASTS.

^{Ezekiel 36:}

¹Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD:

²Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:

³Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:

⁴Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;

⁵Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.

⁶Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of the heathen:

⁷Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.

⁸But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come.

⁹For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:

¹⁰And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded:

¹¹And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

¹²Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men.

¹³Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations:

¹⁴Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord GOD.

¹⁵Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord GOD.

¹⁶Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

¹⁷Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.

¹⁸Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it:

¹⁹And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.

²⁰And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.

²¹But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.

THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM IN AD 70 BY ROMAN FORCES, FORCED THIS WORLD WIDE DISPERSION -- IT HAD NOT OCCURRED PREVIOUSLY TO THE GREAT EXTENT WE SEE TODAY.

²²Therefore say unto the house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went.

²³And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.

²⁴For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.

²⁵Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

NOTE: GOD GIVES THEM NEW HEARTS - THIS IS A NEW DEAL FOR THESE OLD TESTAMENT FOLKS.

²⁶A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

²⁷And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

²⁸And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.

²⁹I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.

³⁰And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.

NOTE: THEY WILL SORROW AND CONTRITION FOR THEIR OLD WAYS.

³¹Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.

³²Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.

³³Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.

³⁴And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.

NOTE: CHAPTERS 38 AND 39 TELLS OF THE INVASION BY NORTHERN NATIONS AND, GOG/MAGOG.

THEY SAY THIS IS TO "TAKE A SPOIL." IT'S POSSIBLE THAT THIS NEW, LUSH LAND, RENEWED BY GOD WITH ABUNDANT FOOD AND WATER AND OTHER RESOURCES WILL BECOME A REAL TARGET FOR STARVING NATIONS TO THE NORTH.

³⁵And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.

³⁶Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it.

³⁷Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.

³⁸As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel's Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones ch 37

"So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up"

Commentators seem to interpret "graves" in the passage (verse 11) below as gentile nations, from which God is going to be retrieving Israelites.

They also interpret "whole house of Israel" (verse 12) as ONLY those living at the time.

I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH BOTH THESE IDEAS.

Jesus Christ's CLEAR example in interpreting many Old Testament Passages --

IS that the Bible MEANS WHAT IT SAYS.

IT SURE SEEMS TO ME GOD IS SAYING HE IS, IN FACT, GOING TO RAISE THE LONG DEAD ISRAELITES RIGHT OUT OF THEIR GRAVES AND PLACE THEM ALIVE AND WELL IN ISRAEL.

SO, THE VIEWS OF COMMENTATORS MAY BE OK IN TERMS OF AN INCIPIENT FULFILLMENT, BUT IT SEEM SO CLEAR GOD IS SPEAKING OF MUCH MUCH MORE THAN THE COMMENTATORS SAY.

Early in this web page, I mentioned the first and second resurrections in Revelation 20.

I think the commentators are assuming God's bringing Israel out of the graves must happen in one of these two resurrections.

But these resurrections involve the change from mortal beings to immortal beings.

Jesus Christ raised Lazarus from being dead for four days -- but he brought him back to his normal, human, mortal state, not to an immortal spirit body. See John 11.

So, Ezekiel 37 can certainly BE God really, bringing them all back the same way - to mortal life.

So, it need not be at the first resurrection mentioned in Revelation 20.

There was also a token resurrection in Matthew 27:

⁵²And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,

⁵³And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.

⁵⁴Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.

It sure seems to me we should be looking for much more than the standard commentators are saying.

Could it be that God will pull the entire dead "House of Israel," out of the graves?

WE NEED TO BE PREPARED TO ACCEPT, EXACTLY THIS.

Jesus took the Bible straight. THIS IS WHAT A STRAIGHT READ OF EZEKIEL DEMANDS.

Prior to 1948 when Israel was restarted as a Nation, many bible students did NOT have the faith, OR nerve, or whatever, to say it would really, literally happen, but resorted to non literal interpretations of many Old Testament promises to Israel.

They tended to wrongly apply these to the Church.

But, some intrepid bible believer correctly held out for literal fulfillment.

And sure enough, in 1948 Israel was resurrected as a Nation, on Earth, even bringing back their old Hebrew.

In Romans 11 we are told ALL ISRAEL SHALL BE SAVED:

²⁵For 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.

²⁶And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:

²⁷For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.

²⁸As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father's sakes.

BUT in Romans 9 "all" is qualified. It tells us NOT "all" Israel, really IS Israel.

This is somewhat confusing:

¹I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,

²That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

³For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

⁴Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;

⁵Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

⁶Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:

⁷Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

⁸That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

⁹For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.

Jesus Christ speaking to Israel's religious leaders said in Matthew 7 says:

²²Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?

²³And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

It seems clear that all dead Israelites are NOT included in Ezekiel's words "whole house of Israel," but certainly ALL "children of the promise" as stated a few verses above, would be.

Still, this means, as the below passage says, "an exceeding great army," of Israelites.

I think the commentators DON'T HAVE all the answers.

We may need to get closer to fulfillment to see how things will unfold.

Ezekiel 37:

¹The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,

²And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.

³And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.

⁴Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.

⁵Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:

⁶And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

⁷So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.

⁸And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.

⁹Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.

¹⁰So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.

¹¹Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.

¹²Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.

¹³And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,

¹⁴And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.

¹⁵The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

¹⁶Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and for all the house of Israel his companions:

¹⁷And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.

¹⁸And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?

¹⁹Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.

²⁰And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.

²¹And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:

²²And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.

²³Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.

²⁴And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.

²⁵And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.

²⁶Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.

²⁷My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

²⁸And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.

GOG AND MAGOG ON PARADE IN LONDON, UK

kenraggio.com Gog, Magog, Meshech, Tubal Ezek 38

Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech, and Tubal.

Wikipedia has a rather interesting article on Gog and Magog.

I'm not saying I agree with it all, but they show the extensive range and depth of the subject.

Hal Lindsey indicated he thought Russia's military commitments to Syria would end up being the "hooks into thy jaws," in verse 4.

I really doubt this.

It seems to me in the passage below, the HOOKS are going to be very much more forceful than a political or military agreement.

The passage, notes that the Israelites are dwelling safely.

So, assuming the Anti-Christ is providing the protection, it is going to take A LOT OF FORCE TO Get Gog, Magog, and allies to attack.

The use of primitive means, that is, horses, in the warfare certainly should be assumed to be actual, considering various circumstances that may exist.

I note also, the apparent total absence of the United States in this whole thing.

I suspect that the Rapture (the removal of the Church from the Earth) has decimated the US, in that the US has a far far higher percentage of Christians than other countries.

In fact the Rapture would effectively, greatly, and immediately shift power to Europe and Asia.

NOW THE END BEGINS IS AN INTERESTING web sight covering this prophetic area.

The following quote is from that site:

"God gives us the lists the major nations that will attack Israel, and they are:
• Magog - this is modern day Russia
• Persia - this is modern day Iran
• Meshech and Tubal, Togarmah - this region is modern day Turkey
• Ethiopia - this is modern Ethiopia
• Libya - this is modern day Libya
• Gomer - this is modern day Germany

While there is slight debate among bible scholars, the above list represents the best consensus of
the identity of the nations in Ezekiel 38.

Suffice to say that the main players, of which there is no doubt, are Russia, Iran, Turkey, Libya and Ethiopia. Now if we were living in the End Times, there would have to be a growing union between the biggest players in this group.

A quick look at some recent headlines tells us this:

• Russia, the biggest End Times player, has already helped Iran build a nuclear reactor
• Iran has repeated over and over their desire to wipe Israel off the map
• Iran now has nuclear weapons capable of reaching Israel

These nations will attack Israel, the bible says, "To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places [that are now] inhabited, and upon the people [that are] gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land."
Ezekiel 38:12 "

Ezekiel 38:

¹And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

²Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,

³And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:

⁴And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:

⁵Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:

⁶Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.

⁷Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.

⁸After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.

⁹Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.

¹⁰Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:

¹¹And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,

¹²To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

¹³Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?

¹⁴Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?

¹⁵And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:

¹⁶And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.

¹⁷Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?

¹⁸And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.

¹⁹For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;

²⁰So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.

²¹And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be against his brother.

²²And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

²³Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.

God, in coming to their rescue may be flatly UPSTAGING the Anti-Christ as their protector.

This could be an additional major reason for the Anti-Christ's contempt for God in entering the Temple and becoming the Abomination of Desolation.

Chapter 39

In this chapter we have the information that the Israelites would burn the enemy war weapons for SEVEN years instead of gathering wood fuel.

If this seven years coincides with the last 7 years of Daniel's 70th week, then we might think that the invasion shown in these two chapters (38,39) occurs at or near, the beginning of the 7 years.

It is certainly possible that the One World Government (New World Order) will be in place and providing protection to Israel, maybe a new Pax Romana, prior to the 7 year period of the 70th week, and prior to the installment of the Anti-Christ.

This would mean that Israel's receiving the New heart and spirit early on, could follow quite quickly after the Rapture of the Church.

OR, it is possible these 7 years extend beyond the 70th week of Daniel into the Millinium.

This would seem to be very odd, but not impossible.

At the end of this page I include chapter 12 of Daniel.

I also quote from the note in the New Scofield Bible regarding the additional time periods of 30 and 45 days mentioned in Daniel 12.

Again, perhaps we will have to watch things unfold, to know exactly how Ezekiel's prophesy will play out.

But, again, I think, careful observers see that our world is rushing toward a huge event.

I would say, even, a perfect storm with the convergence of multiple serious problems.

Absolutely, no accident of course (Psalm2 makes clear).

Ezekiel 39:

¹Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:

²And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:

³And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.

⁴Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.

⁵Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

⁶And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

⁷So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.

⁸Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

⁹And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:

¹⁰So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.

¹¹And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.

¹²And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.

¹³Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.

¹⁴And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.

¹⁵And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.

¹⁶And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.

¹⁷And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.

¹⁸Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

¹⁹And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.

²⁰Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.

²¹And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.

²²So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.

²³And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.

²⁴According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.

²⁵Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;

²⁶After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.

²⁷When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;

²⁸Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.

²⁹Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

Daniel (Old Testament) chapter 12:

¹And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

²And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

³And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.

⁴But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

⁵Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river.

⁶And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?

⁷And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.

NOTE: This should be 360 (days in biblical year) X 3.5 = 1260

⁸And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?

⁹And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.

¹⁰Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.

¹¹And 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.

NOTE: 1290 - 1260 = 30 additional days beyond those in verse 7

¹²Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.

NOTE: 1335 - 1290 = 45 additional days beyond those in verse 11

¹³But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.

NOTE: I quote her the New Scofield Bible note at the end of Daniel 12:

"Summary: (1) The time of the end in Daniel begins with the violation by "the prince that shall come"(ie. "little horn," "man of sin," "beast") of his covenant with the Jews for the restoration of the Temple and sacrifice (Daniel 9:27), and his presentation of himself as God, (9:27; 11:36-38; Mt. 24:15; 2 Th.2:4; Rev. 13:4-6; and ends with his destruction by the appearing of the Lord in Glory (2Th.2-8; Rev 19:19-20). (2) The duration of the "time of the end" is three and one half years, coinciding with the last half of the seventieth week of Daniel (7:25; 12:7; Rev 13.5). And (3) this "time of the end" is the "time of Jacob trouble" (Jer. 30:7); "a time of trouble such as never was a nation" (Dan.12:1); "great tribulation such as was not since the beginning of the world...nor ever shall be (Mt.24:21). The N.T., especially The Revelation, adds many details.

(Dan.12:12) Three periods of "days" date from the "abomination" (ie. the blasphemous assumption of deity of Deity by the beast, v.11; Mt.24:15; 2 Th. 2:4): (1) Twelve hundred and sixty days to the destruction of the beast (7:25; 12:7: Rev 13:5; 19:19-20). This is also the duration of the great tribulation. (2) Dating from the same event a period of 1290 days, an addition of thirty days(12:11). And (3) again fortyfive days are added, and with them the promise of v12. No account is directly given of that which occupies the interval of seventyfive days between the end of the tribulation and the full blessing of v. 12. It is suggested that the explanation may be found in the prophetic descriptions of the events following the war of Armageddon (Rev.16:13-16). The beast is destroyed and Gentile world dominion ended by the Smiting Stone at the end of the 1260 days, but the scene is, so to speak, filled with debris or the image which the "wind" must carry away before full blessing comes (2:35).

USS DWIGHT D EISENHOWER

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