Messianic Eschatology Part 3

Messianic Eschatology Part 3 I have mentioned Israel several times so I think it's time we look at Israel regarding end time doctrine. Mind you this work is not going to go into this subject very deeply. Rom.10: 12 - 13 " For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." And of course Rom.10:9 tells us how to be saved: " That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." Rom.11:2 "God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew." Rom.11:11 - 15 " 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. 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 fullness. For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the Apostle of the gentiles, I magnify mine office: If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them. 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." Rom.11:17 - 21 " And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in. Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded but fear: For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee." My point for now is to strive to serve God and follow Apostolic doctrines, all of them. When we approach God this way he'll approach us at the same time. This is how we can and will provoke Israel to jealousy. Keep Israel in your prayers. Israel is a very important place concerning things relating to the Bible. Let's return to eschatology and go to 2Thes.2:1 - 4: "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, shewing himself that he is God." One point I'd like to make is that this man of sin sits in what the scriptures call the Temple of God. This I take to mean as a legitimate Temple of the Lord on the right spot in Jerusalem. This again gives us another look into what to expect. You see the teaching having Jesus on earth for 1000 years in the Temple in Jerusalem, is to set the people up for the man of sin who does sit in the Temple holding himself out to be God, but of course he is not god. The true Lord Jesus Christ is not going to be on earth for 1000 years in the Temple in Jerusalem, but the Glory of the God of Israel will be in the temple during this period of time just as he was with the Israelites in the past, read Ezek. Chapts. 43-48. Satan does not want you looking for what is ordained in the scriptures, and of course the scriptures will come to pass. An in depth study of the scriptures dealing with the restoration of Israel and life during this period of time is rather complex and involved and I feel it is beyond the scope, purpose and intent of this work. Look for such a work down the road a bit. Let's look at Rev.20:1 - 3: " And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And 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." Satan doesn't care about what is good for the people that worship and serve him. They are people he uses to accomplish what he wants. He knows what will happen to those that serve and worship him. He deceives and tricks these people until they are so blinded they do as he wishes. 2Tim2:13 " But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived." When the people that serve Satan deceive others it allows the devil to deceive them more and eventually they become so deceived they willingly commit foolish acts for Satan. In the past people even had their children pass through the fire for satan, see Jer.32:35. They also would cut themselves as a form of worship, see 1Kings18:28. You see satan is interested in staying out of the bottomless pit for 1000 years initially, and staying out of the lake of fire. He won't prevail but it seems to me he tries in vain to delay or prevent the millennium. All of this world's systems are designed to blind people to the Gospel and keep people in sin. Read Math.8:29: " And, behold, they cried out, saying What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?" We see here that the demons know they have a time and it is coming. I figure they have nothing better to do than try to stop or at least slow down the process. They won't even

upset God's timing by one fraction of a second. Since the millennium is strongly tied to the restoration of Israel to God (see Rom.11:25 - 28) the devil of course is very concerned about Israel and the Jewish people as the believers should also be so concerned with Israel and the Jewish people. Anyway, there is a man of sin and there is a Temple of the Lord. There also will be the Two Witnesses. I wouldn't look for these Two Witnesses to be glorified saints taken down from heaven. The Two Witnesses die on earth see Rev.11,7,8 (reading all of Rev.11 is even better). People in heaven are not mortal, but immortal. I would expect these two witnesses to be Prophets since they give prophecy (see Rev.11:3). Since the beginning of Rev.11 makes mention of the temple I would look for these two witnesses after there is a new legitimate Temple on the Temple Mound, Mount Moriah in Jerusalem. It is very likely that these Two Witnesses are already on earth preparing and being prepared for their brief but earth changing ministry. The entire series and much more on www.messianic.biz