This site is not specifically dedicated to Israel in prophecy, but since Israel is so integral to prophecy it can be found throughout the materials offered here. You can search the materials on this site and read THE KINGDOM OF THE BEAST online, but you are encouraged to purchase the book as a resource which you can underline, make notes in and return to over and over again. It is written in a linear fashion going verse by verse. Israel in prophecy is much easier to understand if you remember a few simple truths. These truths are integrated into the book which is a linear study of Matthew 24, Revelation, Daniel, etc..

First, it was not God’s intention to remove Israel as a nation from the map, but because of their rejection of Jesus as Messiah God did allow Satan to destroy Israel. It was no different from any of the other times when God allowed Israel to be turned over to the heathen nations in judgment for their their transgression. It has always been God’s intention, or His best option for Israel for them to fully comply with His word and be blessed in all they do and blessed as the firstfruits to the Messiah. Many Jews did receive their Messiah, but for those who continued to hold to the outdated covenant in pretense, and break that covenant in their everyday lives, God declared judgment and allowed even their nation to be taken away from them. Jesus said in Luke 19:42-44

“If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.”

This was spoken about the destruction that befell Jerusalem in 70 A.D. which left their entire nation desolate, robbed of the Jewish people and replaced by Palestine.

The second thing to be aware of concerning Israel in prophecy is that the remaining references to the destruction of Israel in the Gospels are different. They are referring to the end times when the remainder of prophecy will be fulfilled. There is always a direct link to the anti-Christ or Abomination of Desolation in Daniel. That link draws another link to the 3.5 year Great Tribulation.

That brings us to the third important note about Israel in prophecy. God knew they would be wiped from the map, but their inclusion in end times prophecy shows His foreknowledge of their return to their former land. But, as most of us already know it was more than just foreknowledge, it was His intention to bring them back to their land Himself. The following four verses from Ezekiel 38 and 39 show that God, Himself has gathered Israel back into their own land in the latter years for His purposes.

Ezekiel 38

8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.

12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

Ezekiel 39

27 When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;

28 Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.

Once again, that brings up another point. The story of Gog In Ezekiel 38 and 39 is a pre-end times prophecy. Gog is going to come against Israel and God is going to defend Israel and defeat and destroy most of the army of Gog. Revelation and Daniel show the anti-Christ rising to power after this final ten nation alliance comes together. In Revelation 17:11 says the beast is the eighth and of the seven. Daniel 7:20 says that there are ten horns, which are the same as the ten nations of Revelation 17, and another one rises after them, which is the beast. In other words, the kingdom and the alliance come together first, and then the beast rises to control it after its embarrassing defeat.

Of course, this brings us to another point. Luke 21 shows Israel being defeated by the beast. Jesus tells His people to flee Jerusalem to the wilderness when they see the beast enter the temple. If they flee to the wilderness when the alliance of Gog attempts to overthrow them without the anti-Christ in control, and the seven year peace accord in place then they will be fleeing right into the midst of God’s destruction of Gog’s forces.

From Luke 21 and the other Gospel prophecies we gain another point. If God is telling His people to flee, who is it who is falling by the sword and being lead captive in Luke 21:24? Obviously Jesus is speaking to believers, specifically Jewish believers in Jerusalem, and the unbelieving Jews are those who will be killed.

That begs the question of who are the elect who Jesus comes in the clouds for? If some Jews are killed because of their disregard for the warnings of Jesus that disqualifies the Jewish people from being the elect. Jews were the chosen of the Old Testament because of the covenant and lineage of Abraham. However, Jesus has no delusions of all Jews fleeing Jerusalem to escape the fury of the beast. The New Testament makes it clear that believers in the Lord Jesus Christ are the chosen and elect, and that Jesus died for Jews first and then the gentiles. Anyone who is cleansed by the blood of the Lamb who died and rose again is a New Testament elect.

So who are the 144,000? They are part of the elect. Revelation paints a picture of 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes of Israel who are pure in heart and deed who are virgin like servants of God. They get that way because they are born-again Messianic Jews. People attempt to make them “left behind” evangelists because they don’t know what else to do with them. However, in the context of Revelation 7 all the Church, of every nation and tribe, is seen in heaven immediately after the the 144k are sealed. They are not left behind. Revelation 14 calls them the firstfruits, not the lastfruits. Revelation 7 and 14 are simply giving different views of the same even­the Rapture, from different perspectives. Revelation is not completely linear as many attempt to make it, it repeats itself three times between chapters 6 and 19. The sealing of the 144k has nothing to do with their pre-Rapture existence. They, and possibly many other Jews, are protected from the onslaught of Satan and the anti-Christ during the Great Tribulation and are raptured before the Wrath of God with the rest of the Church. (The Trib and Wrath are two different series of events.) Their sealing and selection has to do with their position in the future millennial kingdom of God and beyond.

This leads to two new questions. First, will all of Israel be saved. All true Israel will be saved. That is those who believe. Back in Ezekiel 38 and 39 God’s overthrow of Gog is done to sanctify Himself and His name before all people including Israel. But not all believe. In Luke 21 we learn that many Jews will be destroyed as the very same group of nations, this time under the leadership of the beast, will attack again, but this time with complete success. Why would these nations dare to attach Israel again after the divine disaster of just a few years earlier? Because they know that when their final Imam (the anti-Christ) arrives they will be successful. The good news is that the Jews who do not flew Jerusalem are not kept alive, which would indicate that they have taken the mark of the beast. After half the city empties out, and they see that those things that they were told by the ones who fled are coming to pass it seems like a good time to get saved. Even if they don’t this is only the beginning of the Great Tribulation. By the end all Jews who are not destroyed by the anti-Christ will more than likely be saved. The Great Tribulation is not the Wrath of God. It is allowed Satan after the gospel is preached to all the world to try all the world. It is Satan’s intention to destroy the work of God, but God’s greater purpose is to reveal the workings of Satan and to remove all false hope so that even the most hardened of God’s unsaved elect give in to the mercy of His salvation.

The next question is, isn’t there supposed to be a time of great respect for Israel when all the world turns to them for guidance and even salvation. Not in this lifetime! There are currently many great Messianic Jews who proclaiming the gospel with much success. There will be a day when Israel looks like a Christian nation; inside a Jewish nation. It will be divided to the very end and the anti-Christ will keep it from being a beacon to the nations as he enters the temple and claims to be God. The ten nations which he rules surround Israel and will keep it isolated from the rest of the world, and the Tribulation is used by God to finally bring many Jews to the Lord. Passages like those from Isaiah 60 and 65 which is shown below speak of Israel in the sweet by and by, if you will, during the Millennial Reign of Christ and after the new heavens and earth are created.

Isaiah 65

17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.

19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.

20 There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.

21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

23 They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.

24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.

God is the master of the universe and He is certainly the master of weaving multiple lines of thought together in a single utterance. Whether it is speaking of the judgment of Satan while also declaring the judgment of Babylon, speaking of national Israel while also speaking of the church, or declaring the ultimate outcome for Israel at the same time that He is rendering judgment on them in the past. Daniel 0 is a good example of that latter. At the start of Daniel 9 Daniel states that he understands that the exile of Israel would be 70 years. But after repenting of the sins of Israel God revealed the whole plan would be wrapped up in 70 weeks from the command to rebuild the temple.

Throughout the Bible when God talks of the deliverance and salvation of Israel He is also speaking prophetically of the Church. The verses below reveal why.

Galations 3:29

And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Romans 9:6-7

Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all israel, which are of Israel:

Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

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