1 - INTRODUCTION:

Since centuries, many people have thought that the "time of the end of the world", and / or the return of Christ was near. Until 1948 all of them had made ​​their calculations and predictions without realizing that the Bible clearly says that Jesus will return amongst his people and He will descend on the Mount of Olives.. See Zechariah 14: 1-4: “The day when the Lord will sit in judgment is near. Then Jerusalem will be looted, (This indicates that the people of Israel must have returned to Jerusalem) and the loot will be divided up before your eyes. The Lord will bring all the nations together to make war on Jerusalem. The city will be taken, the houses looted, and the women raped. Half of the people will go into exile, but the rest of them will not be taken away from the city. Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations, as he has fought in times past. At that time he will stand on the Mount of Olives, to the east of Jerusalem. Then the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west by a large valley. Half of the mountain will move northward and half of it southward”…. We know that, - since the siege of Jerusalem in the year 70 AD -, the Israelites possessed their country again for the first time in 1948, when the state of Israel was officially recognized internationally. By not returning the Israelites in their promised land

before this date, the time of the return of Jesus Christ could not be until after 1948. And more precisely after 1967, when the Israelites conquered Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives became part of its territory.

              Mount of Olives

Therefore, only now, after the year 1967, the time has come that we can talk about the return of Jesus, because everything is ready to receive him. This is in conjunction with the existence of many other signs and signals, about which I will speak later.

It is also important to mention here that God has promised that once when Israel has returned to his country, they will never be expelled from their country again. Israel will be in its country and in Jerusalem at the time when Jesus will return "amongst his people.”(See Amos 9: 14, 15: “I will bring my people back to their land. They will rebuild their ruined cities and live there; they will plant vineyards and drink the wine; they will plant gardens and eat what they grow. I will plant my people on the land I gave them, and they will not be pulled up again.” The Lord your God has spoken”.

About the notions “end of times” and “return of Jesus” we will go into more detail later, but already now we can conclude from the above that the “end of times” or the return of Jesus can only be AFTER de year 1967 and BEFORE many hostile nations - that will come to battle against Israel - are about to seize their country.

This is why Israel never will return to its borders of before 1967, as proposed by Obama in his “peace plan”.  Because this would mean that Israel would give up the Mount of Olives. Also this would go in against that what is written in Amos 9:15.

This timespan appears to be very limited when we look at all that is happening around Israel right now such as the unrest in many Arab countries like Syria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq…. and more countries, too many to mention here. Also: There is a growing anti-Semitism going on now, and in addition we see the protection that Russia and China give to Syria and other Arab countries surrounding Israel.

This blog describes what is written in the Bible about that what must happen before the return of Christ.

The style of the document is to "let the Bible speak" and only add comments where needed to assist in understanding the correct meaning of the texts.

I will speak first of the wars that will arise among the nations.

In the second part I will discuss the scenarios, especially related to the powers that will arise in the world, and which will exist during those wars.

Always when the Bible is quoted, the text will appear in italics.