See related posts ‘Fulness of the Gentiles’ and Gathering Israel Home.’
When all nations have heard Christ’s Gospel of the Kingdom….the end will come. But the spiritually ‘blinded’ remnant of Israel has never heard the Gospel. (Matt 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come). But what is the Gospel of the Kingdom?? The Gospel is every recorded word spoken by Christ before His purposed death, burial, and resurrection. Matthew 4: 16 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say,Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Matt 9:13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. )
Most Christians are familiar with ‘go and tell’ the Gospel to all men as a catalyst for ushering in the Kingdom of Heaven. But there is one glitch in the master plan. The blinded remnant of the nation of Israel cannot…I repeat…cannot ‘hear’…’see’…nor receive the Gospel ’till this day.’ The following scriptures explain the reasons Israel has not heard the Gospel..’to this day.’
Isa 6:9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. 10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. 11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate 12And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land 13But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
Beginning in Matthew 13:1…Christ restated Isaiah’s (Esias) prophecy concerning the ‘remnant’ of Israel. He even told some of the ‘why’ for their being made spiritually blind and deaf….'(paraphrased) lest the should hear, see, understand the Gospel and be converted or healed.’ God’s plan and purpose was for these blinded Jews to NOT recognize Elias and thus to NOT recognize Christ as Messiah at the First Coming. God intended the blinded of Israel to cry ‘Give us Barabas’…and be partakers in the death of Christ. (Zec 13:6 And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.) Other scriptures CLEARLY show the plan about the ‘blinded’ of Israel. John 12: 37 But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him:38That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed? 39Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,40He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.
Romans 11: 7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it (‘election’ being the seven thousand of 1 Ki 19:18 ‘Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him’/ seven thousand not a literal number but meaning only God knows), and the rest were blinded 8(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day. 9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompense unto them: 10 Let their eyes be darkened that they may not see, and bow down their back alway. 11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. 12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness? 15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? The election are the seven thousand of Israel left to come by grace ( Christian or Messianic Jews of today) and the Gentile believers….all who are of the faith of Abraham.
The remnant concluded in unbelief so they could not hear and be converted now, under the preaching/prophesying of Moses and Elias, are again given eyes to see and ears to hear…and are converted…restored…according to the promise of God. Only AFTER the spiritual blindness and deafness has been ‘healed’ by God through the two witness of Rev. 11:3…will the remnant of Israel ‘hear’ the Gospel of the Kingdom….and receive Christ as Messiah…and be ‘converted.’
13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
REMNANT ‘CONVERTED’ (NOW ALL ISRAEL IS SAVED)…END BEGINS
Prophecy fulfilled: Now ‘the gospel of the kingdom is preached as a ‘witness’ to all nations….and THE END BEGINS…with a ‘great earthquake’. (Rev. 6:12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; 3And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. 14And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. 15And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
END: Eze 38:19 For 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; 20 So 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. 21 And 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. 22 And 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. 23 Thus 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.
END: Matthew 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: 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. 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.
END: Joel 2: 10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining: 11 And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
END: Acts 2:20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
My pastor has been doing a series lately on the Second Coming, and his conclusions dovetail very nicely with what you’ve written here. It’s nice to see someone supporting conclusions about end-times prophecy with actual Scripture instead of assertions ABOUT Scripture. Nice work, and Amen!
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Glen…thanks for visiting and for commenting. Holy Scriptures, Word, Truth…..all belong to God. Only He knows what He meant by what He said. So studying Truth is a humbling experience. Knowledge concerning the meaning of all the massive amount of recorded scripture can only come by way of the Holy Comforter….spiritual discernment. But, I believe, one of the most overlooked and/or disregarded scriptures is Matthew 24:14…This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached AS A WITNESS to all nations; and then the end will come.” The scripture plus the ‘two witnesses’ in Revelations are very relevant to the restoring of God’s covenant people before His return. We are living in glorious but turbulent times. God remains on the throne and continues to rule ‘in the kingdom of men, and sets over it the basest of men Dan.4:17.
Again, thanks for visiting.
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