This is a little
something to flesh out the proof that the 'Age of the Gentiles' has
come to an end. Sure many of you realize this… it's old news but have
we gleaned what this really means? I'll touch on it during this and in a
teaching to come… as we are not to sit idle and say 'Yep, it happened…
it's true'… but not change and conform to where God is heading with His
ultimate plan.
Yes, God has
promised many times in the bible that one day his face would be turned
back to his chosen people, Israel. (Ezek. 36:19-24), (Ezek. 37:15-23),
(Isa. 54:4-7). And: Luke 21:24 states about Israel: "And they shall
fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all
nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the
times of the Gentiles be fulfilled." This is speaking of the hard times
Israel will come across until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled and
God turns his face back to them.
Rom 11:25-29
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“For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery--so that you will not be wise in your own estimation--that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written, "THE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION, HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB."
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"THIS IS MY COVENANT WITH THEM, WHEN I TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS."
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From the standpoint of the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but from the standpoint of {God's} choice they are beloved for the sake of the fathers; for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.”
This
again is a warning to the Gentiles that God will turn his face back to
Israel when the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. Hebrews 8:8-12
states about Israel:
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“For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
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Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
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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: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.”
Again God has said he will turn back to Israel. There is another
component to the scriptures. Luke 21:24 states: ".....and Jerusalem
shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles
be fulfilled." Rom. 11:25 states: ".......blindness in part is happened
to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in." These
scriptures make it clear that the days of the gentile are not continuous
and have an appointed end. Another point is that both of these
scriptures mention occurrences that will happen at the end of the
gentile period.
1.) Jerusalem shall no longer be trodden down of the gentiles.
2.) Partial blindness will no longer happen to Israel.
[In
Romans 11:11, Paul wrote: "I say then have they (the Jews) stumbled
that they should fall? God forbid; but rather through their fall
salvation is come unto Gentiles, for TO PROVOKE THEM TO JEALOUSY."]
So
according to these scriptures there will be an end to God's grace toward
the gentiles, when this end comes Jerusalem shall again be in the hands
of the Jews, and at that time Israel will no longer be blind. If you
consider yourself to be a gentile the biggest question on your mind is
probably, "When will the gentile time be fulfilled?" The answer is in
the eight chapter of the book of Daniel. Within this chapter Daniel
describes a vision.
[Read Daniel 8 for yourself.]
This
chapter is very important. It is very mysterious and Daniel's associates
couldn't understand it even though Gabriel had explained it to Daniel.
Gabriel explained to Daniel that this vision concerned the end time
(Daniel 8:19) and that it was about a battle between the Grecian king
and the Medo/Persian king. It is not until now, in the end time, we can
get an idea of the message from this vision. Such a battle was fought
between King Darius III and Alexander the Great, at Issus in then Syria,
in the Roman year of 333 B.C. You may ask your self, "Why is this
battle so important? Why would this be in the Bible? After all, many
kings fought with one another in those times." But this one was
important, because it gives a starting date for the two thousand three
hundred days of Daniel's vision (Daniel 8:13-14). In the book of Daniel
days are used as a symbol of years, so the days are actually two
thousand three hundred years. And what will happen for those years?
Daniel 8:13 says that both the sanctuary and the host were to be trodden
under foot. These same words echo back in Luke 21:24 that again states:
".....and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the
times of the Gentiles be fulfilled." This tells us that Daniel's vision
was concerning the length of the time of grace toward the Gentiles. We
now have a starting date (333 B.C.), a length of time (2300 years), and
an action to happen at the end of that time (Jerusalem being retaken by
Israel and the time of the Gentiles closing). To get the date of this
occurrence we simply have to the beginning time from the ending time.
2300 A.D. - 333 B.C. = 1967 A.D.
(2300 - 333 = 1967). According to history the Jews, who call themselves
Israel, reclaimed the city of Jerusalem in 1967 in the six day war. And
to this day they rule over it. If this is true, then the Gentile times
were fulfilled, grace was withdrawn from the gentiles, and God turned
his face back to Israel in 1967.
If
Hebrews 8:11 states: "And they shall not teach every man his neighbor,
and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me,
from the least to the greatest."… then we need to consider that it's
not about 'talk' anymore. If we are to provoke the Jews to jealousy,
how is that to happen? Is it maybe by conforming into the image of
Christ and doing 'greater works' than these?
1
Corinthians 2:4-5 "My conversation and my preaching were NOT with
persuasive words of wisdom, but with a DEMONSTRATION of the Spirit and
of power so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on
the power of God." (Emphasis mine).More of the same: http://www.mystiktruth.com/p/end-of-gentile-church.html
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