Thursology 38: ALL Will Be Saved When Christ Returns... But How Could This Be??? (Israel Pt 2) (Thursology Live #38: 7/1/2021)

--The Key to Biblical Prophecy—Understanding God’s plan for the Nation of Israel --A Pervasive Prophetic Principle: The key to understanding the future of the ______…is understanding the future…of ______--Key Question: Is God ______with Israel?

--Two IMPOSSIBLE prophecies of THIS generation: --Impossible Prophecy #1: The disbursed, scattered, exiled, desolated nation of Israel was ______-gathered into the land…______as God promised --Impossible Prophecy #2: God not only foretold the impossible _____- gathering of Israel…He foretold exactly ______it would happen!!!

--Did God REALLY Choose Israel to be His People…FOREVER??? --Six biblical facts about the Nation of Israel: --Israel Fact #1: Any attempt to make Israel irrelevant to the ____ Covenant requires ______-texting and theological ______!!! --Heb 8:6-7, 13  Vv. 8-11 --Key Concept: The Old Covenant is ______…but…both the Old and New Testaments declare that God is going to make a ______Covenant with…______!!!

--Israel Fact #2: A key aspect of the Last Days is that the ______reign of Christ…is for ______--Micah 4:1-3, 6-8

--Israel Fact #3: The are God’s ______people --Deut 7:6  Deut 4:32-40 --A Foundational Precept: Other than the Second Coming of ______Himself…Israel’s ______is the most ______theme of biblical prophecy

--Israel Fact #4: The only Savior the ______will ever have…is ______Savior!!! --Matt 15:21-28  --A Messianic Truth: It was ______Israel…and ______Israel…that the Savior of the ______would come!!!

--Israel Fact #5: The God Who raises the ______…is the God of ______, ______, and ______--I Thess 4:13-18  --Another Foundation of the Faith: Without the Resurrection…there is no ______!!!

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--Matt 22:29-33  --Key Concept: The ultimate promise of the ______Covenant...is indelibly linked to the God of the ______Covenant

--Israel Fact #6: In the End…God will ______the ______nation of Israel --Ezek 39:21-29

--Heb 8:10-11: “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their minds, and I will write them on their hearts. and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. “And they shall not teach everyone his fellow citizen, and everyone his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all will know Me, from the least to the greatest of them.”

--Rom 10:19-21; 11:1-2, 11, 17-21, 25-29  Jer 30:7-11  Zech 12:9-14

--Key Question: When will ______Israel be saved…and ______?

--Key Concept #1: Israel will be saved the only way that ______is saved…through ______…and through trusting in the shed blood of the Savior Who was ______for our transgressions.

--Key Concept #2: By the ______of the Tribulation…finally…there will be a refined ______of God’s people…and they will all ______their !!!

--Zech 13:8-9

--APPLICATION: Our God will ______rebellious people…no matter how far they’ve ______from Him!!! --The characteristics of those who are “WORTH” saving: --Characteristic #1: Ruth 1:14-16: She ______God…even when others ______her

--Characteristic #2: Vv. 17-18: She made serious ______…and ______through on them

--Characteristic #3: 2:3-10: She was ______and didn’t ______upon the kindness of others

--Characteristic #4: V. 11: Even in the midst of her ______…she cared for the needs of ______

--Characteristic #5: V. 13: Even in ______times…she had a ______attitude

--Salvation Paradox: God didn’t choose a people who were ______to save…in fact…He chose them ______they were ______to save!!!

--God’s amazing grace: God works ______on those who are ______to save!!!

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Thursology 37: Israel...Key to Unlocking the End Times: The Greatest Timing Prophecy in Scripture (Thursology Live! #37: 6/24/2021)

--The Key to Biblical Prophecy: Understanding God’s plan for the Nation of Israel --The Tribulation in a verse: --Dan 9:24-26  V. 27  What V. 27 means: 1. The “Covenant”: The “prince” is the ANTICHRIST who will establish a peace treaty between the renewed ROMAN Empire and Israel 2. This covenant will allow the Jews to begin to sacrifice in the TEMPLE again 3. The “peace treaty” will be BROKEN at the middle of the seven years 4. Daniel calls the mid-point of the 7 years the “ABOMINATION of Desolation” 5. At the END of the seven years…Antichrist will be DESTOYED

--The Tribulation in a chapter: --Matt 24:9: The TRIBULATION begins --Vv. 15-16  V. 21: According to Jesus, the ABOMINATION of Desolation begins the “GREAT Tribulation” --Vv. 29-31: At the end of the 7-year TRIBULATION…Christ RETURNS

--A Pervasive Prophetic Principle: The KEY to understanding the future of the WORLD…is understanding the future…of ISRAEL

--Key Concept: Our understanding of the final consummation of the NEW Covenant…is unalterably linked to the final consummation of the OLD Covenant!!!

--Key Question: Is God FINISHED with Israel???

--Israel’s Fulfilled Prophecies of PAST Generations: 1. Dispersion:  Deut 28:58-59, 64 2. Persecution: Deut 28:65-66 3. Desolation: Lev 26:31-33 4. Preservation: Isa 49:14-16:  Jer 31:35-37

--Israel’s IMPOSSIBLE Fulfilled Prophecies of THIS Generation: --Impossible Prophecy #1: The disbursed, scattered, exiled, desolated nation of Israel was RE-gathered into the land…EXACTLY as God promised --Isa 11:11-12: Then it will happen on that day that the Lord will again recover the second time with His hand the remnant of His people…And He will lift up a standard for the nations and assemble the banished ones of Israel, and will gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

--Impossible Prophecy #2: God not only foretold the impossible RE-gathering of Israel…He foretold exactly WHEN it would happen!!! --Jer 25:8-9, 11: The dates of the Exile are well-established: 1

--The Exile began in the month , 606 BC (Dan 1:1) --The Exile ended in the month Nisan, 536 BC (Ezra 1:1-3)

--An important historical fact: After the EXILE…the Jews did not reclaim CONTROL over

--Ezek 4:4-6:  The prophecies of national judgment:  --Jeremiah prophesied that the Babylonian Exile would last 70 years…but… prophesied that the TOTAL number of years of national judgment would be 430 years

--At the end of the Exile: how many years of judgment were left for Israel? --430 - 70 = 360 years

--Lev 26:14-17  V. 18  Apply this punishment precept:  --Since national Israel didn’t repent and obey after the 70 years of exile…the remainder of 360 years of punishment was multiplied by SEVEN

--Do the math on how many more years of punishment would come: --360 x 7 = 2520 biblical prophetic years --A biblical prophetic year = 1260/3.5 = 360 days --The number of days left in Ezekiel’s prophecy of national punishment:  --2520 years x 360 days/year = 907,200 days --Convert the total # of days of Israel’s judgment into Solar years:  --907,200 days/365.242 days per year = 2483 Solar Years

--When would the punishment of national Israel finally end? --Starting point: The Babylonian Exile ended in 536 BC --Ending point: 2483 – 536 (BC) + 1 = 1948 AD

--APPLICATION: If God can flawlessly thread the needle through exactly 2483 years of WORLD history…then I can trust Him to flawlessly take care of ME!!! --Three ways to view the future: 1. I can believe in FATALISM 2. I can work hard to CONTROL the future…and hope that neither randomness…nor people…MESS up my plans 3. I can place my LIFE into the hands of the One who is already IN the future…working out His PERFECT plan for me

--Psalm 139:11-16: If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me, and the light around me will be night,” Even the darkness is not dark to You, and the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to You. For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; wonderful are Your works, and my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth; Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; and in Your book were all written the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them.

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Putting It All Together: The Last Seven Years

The 70th Week of Daniel (Dan 9): The Tribulation in a verse

Dan 9:27

(3 ½ Yrs) * (3 ½ Yrs)

(7 Yrs) (1 “Week”) Compare: Dan 2:40-42; 7:1-8, 11, 19-26

The Olivet Discourse (Matt 24): The Tribulation in a chapter

Matt 24:9-31

“Great Tribulation”

“Tribulation”

The Revelation Account (Rev 6-19): The Tribulation in a book

Rev. 6-19

“Peace” with Antichrist “Great Tribulation”

On May 14, 1948, on the day in which the British Mandate over a Palestine expired, the Jewish The Declaration of the Establishment of People's Council gathered at the Museum, and approved the following proclamation, declaring the establishment of the State of Israel. The new state was recognized that night by the the State of Israel, May 14, 1948 United States and three days later by the USSR. ERETZ-ISRAEL [(Hebrew) - the , Palestine] was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, created cultural values of national and universal significance and gave to the world the eternal Book of Books. After being forcibly exiled from their land, the people kept faith with it throughout their Dispersion and never ceased to pray and hope for their return to it and for the restoration in it of their political freedom. Impelled by this historic and traditional attachment, Jews strove in every successive generation to re-establish themselves in their ancient homeland. In recent decades they returned in their masses. Pioneers, ma'pilim (immigrants coming to Erezt-Israel in defiance of restrictive legislation) and defenders, they made deserts bloom, revived the , built villages and towns, and created a thriving community controlling its own economy and culture, loving peace but knowing how to defend itself, bringing the blessings of progress to all the country's inhabitants, and aspiring towards independent nationhood. In the year 5657 (1897), at the summons of the spiritual father of the , Theodore Herzl, the convened and proclaimed the right of the Jewish people to national rebirth in its own country. This right was recognized in the of the 2nd November, 1917, and re-affirmed in the Mandate of the League of Nations which, in particular, gave international sanction to the historic connection between the Jewish people and Eretz-Israel and to the right of the Jewish people to rebuild its National Home.

The catastrophe which recently befell the Jewish people - the massacre of millions of Jews in Europe - was another clear demonstration of the urgency of solving the problem of its homelessness by re- establishing in Eretz-Israel the Jewish State, which would open the gates of the homeland wide to every Jew and confer upon the Jewish people the status of a fully privileged member of the comity of nations. Survivors of the Nazi holocaust in Europe, as well as Jews from other parts of the world, continued to migrate to Eretz-Israel, undaunted by difficulties, restrictions and dangers, and never ceased to assert their right to a life of dignity, freedom and honest toil in their national homeland. In the Second World War, the Jewish community of this country contributed its full share to the struggle of the freedom- and peace-loving nations against the forces of Nazi wickedness and, by the blood of its soldiers and its war effort, gained the right to be reckoned among the peoples who founded the United Nations.

On the 29th November, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the establishment of a Jewish State in Eretz-Israel; the General Assembly required the inhabitants of Eretz-Israel to take such steps as were necessary on their part for the implementation of that resolution. This recognition by the United Nations of the right of the Jewish people to establish their State is irrevocable. This right is the natural right of the Jewish people to be masters of their own fate, like all other nations, in their own sovereign State.

ACCORDINGLY WE, MEMBERS OF THE PEOPLE'S COUNCIL, REPRESENTATIVES OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF ERETZ-ISRAEL AND OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT, ARE HERE ASSEMBLED ON THE DAY OF THE TERMINATION OF THE BRITISH MANDATE OVER ERETZ- ISRAEL AND, BY VIRTUE OF OUR NATURAL AND HISTORIC RIGHT AND ON THE STRENGTH OF THE RESOLUTION OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY, HEREBY DECLARE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A JEWISH STATE IN ERETZ-ISRAEL, TO BE KNOWN AS THE STATE OF ISRAEL. WE DECLARE that, with effect from the moment of the termination of the Mandate being tonight, the eve of Sabbath, the 6th Iyar, 5708 (15th May, 1948), until the establishment of the elected, regular authorities of the State in accordance with the Constitution which shall be adopted by the Elected Constituent Assembly not later than the 1st October 1948, the People's Council shall act as a Provisional Council of State, and its executive organ, the People's Administration, shall be the Provisional Government of the Jewish State, to be called "Israel".

THE STATE OF ISRAEL will be open for Jewish immigration and for the Ingathering of the Exiles; it will foster the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions; and it will be faithful to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations. THE STATE OF ISRAEL is prepared to cooperate with the agencies and representatives of the United Nations in implementing the resolution of the General Assembly of the 29th November, 1947, and will take steps to bring about the economic union of the whole of Eretz-Israel. WE APPEAL to the United Nations to assist the Jewish people in the building-up of its State and to receive the State of Israel into the comity of nations. WE APPEAL - in the very midst of the onslaught launched against us now for months - to the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to preserve peace and participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its provisional and permanent institutions. WE EXTEND our hand to all neighbouring states and their peoples in an offer of peace and good neighbourliness, and appeal to them to establish bonds of cooperation and mutual help with the sovereign Jewish people settled in its own land. The State of Israel is prepared to do its share in a common effort for the advancement of the entire Middle East. WE APPEAL to the Jewish people throughout the to rally round the Jews of Eretz-Israel in the tasks of immigration and upbuilding and to stand by them in the great struggle for the realization of the age-old dream - the redemption of Israel.

PLACING OUR TRUST IN THE "ROCK OF ISRAEL", WE AFFIX OUR SIGNATURES TO THIS PROCLAMATION AT THIS SESSION OF THE PROVISIONAL COUNCIL OF STATE, ON THE SOIL OF THE HOMELAND, IN THE CITY OF TEL-AVIV, ON THIS SABBATH EVE, THE 5TH DAY OF IYAR, 5708 (14TH MAY,1948). David Ben-Gurion Daniel Auster Rachel Cohen David Zvi Pinkas Mordekhai Bentov Rabbi Kalman Kahana Aharon Zisling Yitzchak Ben Zvi Saadia Kobashi Moshe Kolodny Eliyahu Berligne Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Levin Eliezer Kaplan Fritz Bernstein Meir David Loewenstein Katznelson Rabbi Wolf Gold Zvi Luria Felix Rosenblueth Meir Grabovsky Golda Myerson Yitzchak Gruenbaum Nachum Nir Berl Repetur * Published in the Official Gazette, No. 1 of the 5th, Iyar, 5708 (14th May, Dr. Abraham Granovsky Zvi Segal Mordekhai Shattner Eliyahu Dobkin Rabbi Yehuda Leib Hacohen Ben Sternberg 1948). Meir Wilner-Kovner Fishman Bekhor Shitreet Zerach Wahrhaftig Moshe Shapira Herzl Vardi Moshe Shertok