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.
