In a message dated 2/3/2006, HEYITSBA writes:We recently finished Matthew 24 in church (Southern Baptist). The following passage is Jesus' message to the Jews living in Israel after the Church is gone. In that light ... if I were a Jew the very last place on this Earth I would want to be is Israel. I keep wondering about Jerry Golden's ministry to bring Jews to Israel ... I know he is being led to do what he is doing and that our Lord is in total control of the situation. But yikes ... I'd be headed the other direction. But of course if I were a Jew I wouldn't be reading the back of The Book, now would I. How, oh how, can they ignore it for very much longer?Matthew 2415 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
This time period represents the LAST 3 and 1/2 years of the last week of Daniel, the last 7 years.God is gathering his chosen people from the world to be in Israel, so that He can deal with them directly as a nation again. Anti-Semitism around the world, is God's means of rounding up all the Jews and returning them to Israel. When America is "on its back", I imagine many more Jews will come back to Israel, especially after the miraculous deliverance by God in Ezekiel 38/39, and the rebuilding of the Temple. This last dispensation is for the JEWS, where God will deal with them directly. The prophets Elijah and Moses will be back. This would all have to be too irresistible to even backslidden Jews. God wants the Jews back in Israel.When the abomination of desolation occurs, it will stop the Temple sacrifices. The godly Jews who have found Christ, will know to depart immediately. Those who are still blind, will remain for the slaughter. God will allow the Temple sacrifices to be stopped, so that the Jews will have no choice but to call out for their true Messiah. Jews are even warned about this in the old Testament, in the last book of Daniel. They are told EXACTLY how many days to "hang on" after the sacrifices are stopped.When the 2 prophets come, what do you think they will be preaching? They will be preaching the truth, the whole truth......salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. The witnesses will convert some (at least 144,000 Jews), but most will still not be converted. This is why they will give each other gifts when the 2 witnesses are slain. They are still spiritually blind.....even after the witnesses are raised from the dead and raptured before their eyes. But if the Jews didn't come back to Israel, they wouldn't hear the preaching of the 2 witnesses, and witness these events first hand. This is God's last call to the Jews. He wants them home again, to fulfill bible prophecy, to fulfill His promise to restore them to their homeland again, and so they can witness these experiences first hand, and benefit from them.Anyway, that's how I see it. I think that Jerry Golden is probably in the center of God's will, helping his brethren escape the coming GREAT persecution from the rest of the world. (Satan will be reigning in FULL power soon, he HATES the Jews!)If you give a cup of cold water to the LEAST of MY brethren, said Jesus, you do it unto ME. Helping the Jews escape the coming anti-Semitism in all areas of the world EXCEPT Israel, is very similar to Corrie Ten Boom's efforts to hide the Jews during WWII. When you are a blessing to the Jews, God will bless you.Once the Jews are in Israel again they will be exposed to many Jewish believers. Who best to convert Jews, but other Jews? This is for their good.Once they get saved, if they get saved, Matthew 24's warning will be read and fully understood and heeded. Petra, near Israel, will be the ONLY safe place for them in the entire world! This will be the only spot on earth where Satan has no dominion. A remnant will be saved. The road to physical and spiritual salvation for the Jew during the last week of Daniel, is through Israel, and then on to Petra for the last 3 and 1/2 years (the place in the wilderness prepared for them by God for this exact time). This is God's plan.....not ours. Gods ways are not our ways.Jews who believe in Jesus Christ prior to the removal of the Holy Spirit from earth, will be removed along with "the restrainer of evil", BEFORE the Anti-Christ can come onto the world seen in full power. (2 Thes.) God will send His 2 prophets to Israel, not New York!These 2 prophets are a blessing from God to the Jews.....the last call.Anyway, that's how I see it.
Maranatha!
Deborah
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