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Invest Your Present For Your Future

“So teach us to number our days,
that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.”
Psalm 90:12

On a yardstick, the life we live here is 1/8th of an inch. The rest is the life we will live in eternity.

A person who truly understands the shortness of this life in comparison to the one to come, will seek to know God, find the truth, and to discover the will of God in his/her life. This is wisdom, investing here for one’s life there.

How can it be that the children of the Kingdom have less wisdom than the children of the world? The children of the world spend years and years investing in their retirement so that when that time comes, they will be comfortable. How much more important is the investment of this life for the next. Those who realize how short this life is in comparison to the life they will live in eternity will spend their years here preparing for their future – there. This is wisdom..

The wise will seek revelation from God on the way to do it. For each person it will be different. Each one has a unique makeup, a unique gifting, a unique call, and a unique purpose, which can only be aspired to through prayer, asking God to reveal what HIS plan and desire is in one’s life, with a total willingness to forego their way for his way. It may be far different from what they thought. But once that decision has been made, an unexpected joy will enter their lives as they realize how personal his plan for them is. He has fitted them with the exact makeup and personality appropriate to their call, so that walking in that call will not be a burden but a joy.

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Israel Surrounded By Giants

…Haman sought to destroy all the Jews
Esther 3:6

vs 13:
And the letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces,
to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all the Jews,
both young and old, little children and women, in one day…

If you thought the current-day effort of the “Palestinians” to destroy the Jews is something new, then you don’t know your Bible. Throughout history it has been the desire of Satan to destroy the Jews. This attempt recorded in the Book of Esther took place approximately 470 BC. In modern times Hitler tried to destroy them in the Holocaust. Presently we’ve seen yet another attempt on October 7, 2023 when they managed to slaughter thousands, raping women, and decapitating babies.

The history of Israel is filled with David-and-Goliath type accounts. How many times has Israel been up against a wall, up against incredible odds, yet God has saved them through them all, otherwise tiny Israel would have disappeared long ago.

The nation of Israel is now facing the greatest danger it has ever been up against, being surrounded by Hezbollah in the north, Hamas in the south, Syria in the northeast, all waiting to attack and destroy them with chemical and biological weapons, and what’s more …and Iran planning to destroy her with nuclear weapons which is the most horrific and deadly of all the threats Israel has ever experienced.

One thing though that is for sure: the existence of Israel is absolutely guaranteed by God himself. And her enemies will be destroyed – because they are up against the Lord God, the God of Israel.

This whole story is leading up to the final war, Armageddon, the greatest war of all history. The God of Israel will make the world know that HE ALONE is God. And then the enemies of God will come to their utter destruction.

Be watching, because these things are happening even now.

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Israel’s Covenant

“For this is the covenant that I will make
with the house of Israel after those days,
says the Lord: I will put my laws in their mind
and write them on their hearts;
and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”
Hebrews 8:10

Some believe that God has forsaken Israel and given to the church the promises that were theirs. It’s called “Replacement Theology” and is taught by several denominations. This is heresy and it is absolutely false. There are countless passages in both the Old Testament and the New which foretell the restoration of the Jewish people in the land of Israel “in the last days.”

Furthermore, that all might know that it’s the Lord doing it, they are being brought back to the land of their fathers in a state of unbelief, so that they will not be able to boast. The Lord said it would happen this way, and so it has.

God has NOT forsaken the chosen people. They were put under judgment twice. This is the second and last time they are being brought back, never to be driven out again. God has shown many more things that will happen before “Joseph” reveals himself to his brothers. Before the Messiah comes Israel will be brought through a terrible time of suffering, to humble them, to refine them, to make them ready to receive their Messiah. Then they will be fully restored when their Messiah comes, as has been prophesied again and again throughout the Scriptures.

That is why the enemy is so totally devoted to destroying them and stopping the process, because when this story is complete, it’s the end for Satan and all who follow him.

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What God Says About The Future Of Israel

“Whereas you have been forsaken and hated,
so that no one went through you,
I will make you an eternal excellence,
a joy of many generations.”
Isaiah 60:15

What validates the Bible is its prophecies. God says that he declares the end from the beginning, and so he does! This is a prophecy about Israel’s future, her glorious future after she has been fully restored by God in her land.

Truly the land was forsaken. The author Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) visited the land in the 1860’s and wrote:

“Palestine is desolate and unlovely. And why should it be otherwise?
Can the curse of the Deity beautify a land?”

“There is not a solitary village throughout its whole extent – not for thirty miles
in either direction. There are two or three small clusters of Bedouin tents, but
not a single permanent habitation. One may ride ten miles hereabouts and not
see ten human beings.”

“… There was hardly a tree or a shrub anywhere. Even the olive and the cactus,
those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country.
No landscape exists that is more tiresome to the eye that that which bounds
the approaches to Jerusalem…”

When Israel lost her land in 70 A.D. the Jews were dispersed throughout the earth for a very long time. No one was able to settle her land, because for as long as the Jews weren’t there it didn’t rain, so the land would not produce. Her land was “forsaken and hated, so that no one went through.” (Isaiah 60:15)

But the God of Israel promised that she would be repopulated once again when the time of her dispersion was over, and this time, He said, it will be forever – as God makes Israel “an eternal excellence.”

In the late 19th century, Jews slowly began coming back to the land and in 1948 Israel was once again proclaimed a nation, after 2,000 years! God is in the process of restoring it, and when the Messiah returns, in that glorious day soon to come, all the enemies of Israel will be destroyed, and there will be an end to the “everlasting hatred” which has assailed her from the beginning.

In 1967 Israel took the Temple Mount and it was captured on video:

Thus says the Lord:

“VIOLENCE shall NO LONGER be heard in your land,
neither wasting nor destruction within your borders;
but you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.”
Isaiah 60:18

It is in this final restoration of the land of Israel to her rightful owners, that the long-awaited Messiah will come, and he will reveal himself to those who had rejected him. They will come to the shocking revelation of who he is:

“And I will pour on the house of David
and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem
the Spirit of grace and supplication;
THEN THEY WILL LOOK ON ME WHOM THEY PIERCED.”
Zechariah 12:10

The shock of recognition:

“And one will say to him,
‘WHAT ARE THESE WOUNDS IN YOUR HANDS?’
Then he will answer,
‘Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.'”
Zechariah 13:6

The Bible’s story of Jacob’s son Joseph who was banished by his brothers is a “type” of the Messiah being banished by his brothers, the Jewish people. In the end, in one of the most heart-wrenching passages in the Bible, Joseph reveals to his brothers who he is. You can read the story in Genesis 45. The Messiah, like Joseph, will make known his identity to his brothers, and when they recognize him they will go into deep mourning, they will mourn greatly what was done to him when Israel rejected him.

“Yes, they will mourn for him as one mourns for his only son,
and grieve for him as one grieves for a firstborn.
In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem…”
Zechariah 12:10-11

But he, the Messiah, the King of Israel, will forgive them, and restore them fully. He will raise up Israel and the newly-repentant Jewish people as he promised so long ago.

“Also your people shall all be righteous;
they shall inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting,
the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.”
Isaiah 60:21

Israel has a bright future ahead, says the God who proclaims the end from the beginning.

But before he comes, there will be a terrible time, a 7-year period of horrific suffering as Satan is allowed his last hour on this earth. The Scriptures tell us that those who belong to Jesus will be taken from the earth before that terrible time begins. Bow before Jesus Christ even now and be saved, for he is your Creator and he holds his nail-scarred hands out to you that you might escape the severe tribulation that is about to take over the earth as God judges the Christ-rejecting world and prepares his people Israel to receive her Messiah. Turn to him now and be saved lest you be left behind to endure that terrible time.

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They Seek To Destroy Israel

“They have said,
‘Come, and let us cut them off
from being a nation,
That the name of Israel
may be remembered no more.”
Psalm 83:4

For years Bible prophecy buffs have pointed to Ezekiel 38 as the great war in Israel before Armageddon. But in recent years the Lord has revealed that there is another great war that will PRECEDE Ezekiel 38.

In Ezekiel 38 Russia and Iran attack Israel and the Lord finally destroys them. What many didn’t notice until recent years is that the lineup of nations included in that Ezekiel 38 war does not include ANY of the nations immediately surrounding Israel.

But in Psalm 83, the lineup of nations coming against Israel includes ONLY the nations immediately surrounding Israel. This war will bring about the destruction of the Palestinian enemies of Israel and will put Israel in a state of peace, which will be the case before Ezekiel 38, before Russia and Iran attack.

The description of the nations mentioned in Psalm 83 shows them saying:

vs 5:
“For they have consulted together with one consent;
they form a confederacy against you.”

This is exactly what is happening right now.The Muslim nations are confederate against Israel.

Soon, the god of Islam will pit himself against the God of Israel and the resulting victory for Israel will show all just who is God.

vs 18:
“That they may know that you, whose name alone is Yahweh,
are the Most High over all the earth.”

God is not choosing this war. The enemies of Israel are. They are bold and brazen in their loud statements, and that will bring them to destruction. This is truly a David vs Goliath situation, as Israel is greatly outnumbered and totally surrounded. But these multitudes of terrorists are no match for the God of Israel.

And that – they will soon find out.

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Why Israel?

Jesus said to the Samaritan woman:
“You worship what you do not know,
we know what we worship,
for salvation is of the Jews.”
John 4:22

Many people who are not familiar with the Bible might be surprised to hear that Jesus was Jewish, and his mother Mary was a Jew. The twelve apostles were Jews. God’s story from Genesis to Revelation is all about the Jews. It began with the Jews and it will end with the Jews.

We’re approaching the last of the last days, and Israel is now in the news daily. Imagine it – a nation that was destroyed two thousand years ago and its people dispersed throughout the world – is now back in our news media daily, two thousand years later.

History shows us that when a nation is conquered, after a couple of generations it has been completely assimilated into the conquering peoples. When was the last time you heard of Amalekites, Perizites, Phoenicians, Hittites, or Jebusites? They all disappeared from history, having been absorbed into the nations that conquered them.

Not so with the Jews. How could a people survive 2,000 years of dispersion into every country on earth, yet remain a people – AND – be brought back to the very land from which they were dispersed – after 2,000 years – and speaking the same ancient language as though they had never left? Impossible! Yet that’s exactly what happened.

How could a people become a modern nation, as modern as America or anywhere else – in just 78 years? The nations surrounding her have been there for many thousands of years, yet they have not accomplished in many thousands of years what God has accomplished in Israel in 78 years!

God called out a people, the Jewish people, to demonstrate many truths about himself through them. And one of those truths is his faithfulness to his Word. He swore a covenant oath to them that after enduring his judicial punishment for those many years, HE would bring them back to the land of their fathers and totally restore them, and that all the prophecies of “the last days” would come to pass through them.

Do not think that the Middle East conflict is accidental. I used to wonder why God didn’t restore the nation of Israel in some deserted place on earth where she could thrive without other nations hating her. You know – maybe in some remote area in the middle of South America? How about Newfoundland, or Greenland? There wouldn’t be anyone there to hate her.

No, God has DELIBERATELY brought her back to the land that Satan has spent the past two thousands years preparing, surrounding her with enemies brainwashed to hate her and ceaselessly planning to destroy her.

When Israel was scattered two thousand years ago, there was no Islam! Mohammed wouldn’t be born for centuries to come. Islam is the last-days creation of Satan who has succeeded in surrounding the nation of Israel with Muslims whose Satanic religion demands that they kill the Jews and drive Israel off the map. Israel’s enemies surround her, 500 to 1. Does she have a chance against those odds? Not unless her God makes her victorious. The day after she was born in 1948, few in number, weak survivors of the Holocaust, she was attacked by five surrounding Arab nations who had been established for centuries. There is no way imaginable that she could survive it. Yet she did. Because the God of Israel gave the victory.

This story is not so much the conflict between Ishmael, the father of the Arabs, and Isaac the father of the Jews. No, this is Satan against God. And God has laid it out in such a way that Satan has every advantage, the purpose being that God’s faithfulness will be undeniable when he brings to pass the total restoration that he promised Israel and which the prophets of the Old Testament foretold over and over and over again – foretold even before Israel was ever scattered.

God shows himself as knowing the end from the beginning, prophesying beforehand what will be the outcome. Imagine the prophets prophesying the end when the scattering throughout the world hadn’t even taken place yet! No other god could even come close to accomplishing this.

Prophecy identifies the author. No other religion contains prophecy, because Satan does not know the future, except what is revealed in the Word of God. The God of Israel, and ONLY HE, proves himself by the fulfillment of ancient prophecy concerning “the last days,” prophecies which were given thousands of years beforehand.

“Declaring the end from the beginning,
And from ancient times things that are not yet done,
Saying, ‘My counsel shall stand,
And I will do all My pleasure…”
Isaiah 46:10

And therefore we know he will be faithful to the promises made to US as well, through the atonement made for us in his Son, Jesus Christ. God’s Word is faithful. God’s Word stands forever.

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