Israel and the prophecies january 2015

How concerned are you about
the biblical truth
about Israel?
JanEgil Gulbrandsen – January 2015

Or do you prefer all the hype,
propaganda and the popular
religious opinions?

I love Israel !
The truth about Israel!!!

Welcome to a
(somewhat) different
Israel presentation

Foundational beliefs
• The Israel “problem” can not be
solved politically,
• legally,
• or by negotiations.
• The Israel “problem” is a spiritual
problem
• God dictates the terms for Israel
existence and return to the land

Israel
and the prophecies
Understanding the scriptures
regarding God’s plan for Israel

I know “a little Hebrew.” !!! (He is 4’11”)
He is a Jew - and he is a Christian.
He has spent 40 years travelling the world teaching on Israel and
the prophesies.
The following are notes I took from one of his seminars and from
my own research over the years.
Dr. Jerry Benjamin

• Deuteronomy 28 to 30 (5. Mosebok 28 - 30)
•It is God talking

• God outlines the premise for
Israel before they entered in to
• the promised land
• crossing the Jordan (from east to
west)
• (in to the central part of the land)

• Deut. 28:1
• “If you – Israel – obey the
commandments I give you today,
the Lord your God will set you
high above all nations on the
earth”
• This promise was given 450 BC
• Almost 2500 years ago

• God say’s he will set Israel high
above all nations…
• It has not yet come to pass
• Why?
• Because Israel as a nation has not
yet obeyed the Lord

• Deut. 28:8
• “the Lord your God will bless you
in the land he has given you”
• But there is a condition:
• You have to obey all the
commandments I give you today

This is God’s promise regarding
“the promised land”:

Genesis 15:18-21 (KJV):
In the same day the LORD made a covenant with
Abram, saying, unto thy seed have I given this
land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river,
the river Euphrates: The Kenites, and the
Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, And the Hittites,
and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, And the
Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the
Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

Notice one important detail:
The land was given to
Abrahams “seed”…
As we know: Abraham had two
sons – Isaac (the promise)
and Ishmael ( the child with the
bond woman)

Abraham with his
2 “wives” and 2 sons
Hagar and Ismael
had to leave the family
Abraham’s
“seed”

Abraham blessing Ismael
as he sends his “first seed”
off into the dessert.
And God also promised to
bless Ismael. (Gen. 17:20)

Genesis 17:
6 And I will make you exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings shall
come out of you.
7 And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you
in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you, and to your
seed after you.
8 And I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land wherein you are a
stranger, all the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession*; and I will be their
God.
9 And God said to Abraham, You shall keep my covenant therefore, you, and your
seed after you in their generations.
10 This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your seed
after you; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.
13 He that is born in your house must be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in
your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
14 Any uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that
soul shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.
.
(* But there were conditions – Deut. 28)

18 And Abraham said to God: O that Ishmael might live before you!
19 And God said, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son indeed; and you shall call his
name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and
with his seed after him.
20 As for Ishmael, I have heard you: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make
him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; and I will make him a great nation.
21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear to you at this set
time in the next year.
23 And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and every
male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in
the selfsame day, as God had said to him.
25 And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of
his foreskin.
26 In the same day was Abraham circumcised and Ishmael his son.
27 And all the men of his house, born in the house were circumcised with him.

• Genesis 17:21 makes it totally clear that
God made a covenant with Isaac
• Genesis 17:7 and 8 makes it equally clear
that the covenant was with Abrahams
seed
• Ismael is as we know also Abrahams seed
• Genesis 17:6 says all the land of Canaan
is giving to Abrahams seed

• Important: In Genesis 17:10 and 13 God
makes it totally clear:
• The covenant is between God, Abrahams
seed and every man-child among you –
those who are born in Abraham’s house
• Abraham understand this and in Genesis
17:23 he circumcises – as instructed by
God – Ismael and every other male

• Preliminary conclusion:
• From this it should be clear that Ismael –
the Arab people – are included in God’s
promise
• to live in all the land of Canaan – also
called the promised land,
• together with their “brothers” from Isaac –
the people of Israel

Even common sense tells us that “this land” includes Arabs as well as
Israel – it is already possessed by the “brother people” – Jews and Arabs –
Judaism and Islam. Both religions springing out from the same “root”.

Abraham is clearly significant in the formation of
Islam; he is found in 25 “chapters” of the Koran.
He is a prophet, one who received revelation, the
example of pure faith, who paid his debt in full, and
a strict monotheist who struggled with idol
worshipers.
Islam is said to be an expression of the religion of
Abraham, the friend of God;
and Abraham is considered a prototype of
Mohammed.
Additional information:

Islam has a genealogy from Adam to Mohammed.
It follows the line through Ishmael, and then from
Kedar and Nebaioth of Ishmael through about
25 generations to Mohammed.
So in view of all this, we can say that what is said of
Ishmael in the Bible* applies to the bulk of Arab tribes.
*) The Arabs are also Abrahams seed and is included in the
the covenant – the right to possess Canaan
Additional information:

But there are conditions
for occupying the land:

• Deut. 28:14
• This is one of the conditions:
• “Do not follow other gods and
serve them”

• There is a curse (consequence)
for disobedience:
• Deut. 28:21
• “The Lord will plague you with
diseases until he has destroyed
(eradicated) you from the land
you are entering to possess”

• In simple English:
•God himself will throw
you out of your own
land

• Deut 28:36
• “The Lord will drive you to
another nation unknown to your
fathers”

• Notice:
• It is God himself that drives
Israel out of their country

• Deut 28:46-47
• “these curses will be a sign to you
and your descendants forever,
because you did not serve the
Lord joyfully in the time of
prosperity”

• Deut 28:63
• “just as it pleased the lord to
make you prosper and increase in
number, so it will please him to
ruin and destroy you
• WOW!
• You will be up-rooted (removed)
from your land”

• Deut 29:18
• “Make sure there is no man or
woman whose heart is turned
away from the Lord”

• Deut. 29:24
• “why this fierce, burning anger?
• Deut 29:25-26
• It is because this people abandoned
the covenant of the Lord – they went
out and worshipped other gods -
gods He had not given them
• (they broke the first commandment)

• Deut 30:1
• “All the blessings and curses
will follow you wherever the Lord
your God disperses you among
the nations”

• Meaning:
• The blessings and curses will
follow you wherever you are
in the world until you eventually
return to the Lord
• ( this has gone on for almost 2500
years so far…)

• Deut. 30:2-3
• Prosperity after turning (back) to
God

• Deut. 30:2-3
• “When you return to the Lord, then
the Lord will restore your fortunes “
• “and have compassion on you and
gather you again from all the
nations where He scattered you –
He will bring you back – to the land
that belonged to your fathers”

• Have the people of Israel (as of
2014) returned to the Lord?
•No

• But God in his mercy has
started to gather them in “a
portion of the land” in preparation
for what will eventually happen:
• the people returning to the
Lord!

• But Israel will never – ever
get the whole land back
• until they turn to the Lord!

So stop trying to take the land
back by force!

Yes –
continue to pray for Israel
But pray for them to turn
back to the Lord. Not that
they will take the promised
land back by force.

• If God allowed them to have the
land back now,
• he would go against his own
condition for them returning and
being “restored”
• They will only get the whole land
back
• when they finally accept Him and
turn to God!

And that will not be until His
second coming…
…when they finally
accept and receive Him
as a nation!

Israel and the prophecies
• Why is God doing this:
• Because they did not serve the Lord their
God…
• They “fell away”…
• “it will please God to ruin and destroy
you” Deut. 28:63

•So nobody took the
land away from Israel
but God himself

•So nobody can give
the land back but God
himself

• But there is hope Deut. 30:4
• “Turn back to the Lord”
• “And when you “return to the Lord” and
obey Him with all your heart and all your
soul,
• the Lord will restore your fortune,
• He will bring you (back) to the land that
belonged to your fathers”

• Let’s take it one more time:
• When will this “returning” happen?
•When Israel turn
back to God

• Has this happened yet?
• As pr. year 2013?
•Absolutely not!
• The Israelites are more secular and
worldly than most people on the face of
the earth…

• On a personal note:
• Yes – we are to love the people of Israel
(the Jews) and the land of Israel at all time
• But let us not in our own wisdom, passion
and eagerness demand things on behalf of
Israel,
• that God himself has planned in a process
to “bring Israel back” in relationship with
Him

• A warning in our support of Israel:
• Make sure you are not fighting the will
and plan of God !!!
• He will have his way
with Israel
• in his own time!

• PS. God has everything under control
• Trust Him
• Rest in Him
• Continue to pray for Jerusalem

The promised land”
From this land – Israel – will Christ rule the world one day

It’s ok to update your
understanding
and theology regarding Israel!
Get in line with “the word”
God bless you!

• Let’s go back to Daniel and the prophesy:

• Israel entered the land of “milk and honey”
(milk representing basic needs – honey representing overflow)
• But they chose to disobey God and was
taken from their land (approx. 535 BC) as
prisoners (slaves) to Babylon
• This is where the prophet Daniel receives
his prophecy of the future of Israel

• The story goes like this:
• King Nebuchadnezzar has a dream
• His own astrologers can not intrepid the dream
• God reveals the mystery of the dream in a vision
to Daniel
• (Daniel chapter 2 now gives a total overview of
what is to happen over the next 500 years + the
final kingdom – 2000 AD+ )

• Daniel tell the king what he has seen:
• “Before you stood a enormous statue”
• “The head was made of pure gold”
• “It’s chest and arms of pure silver”
• “It’s belly and thighs of bronze”
• “It’s legs of iron”
• “It’s feet partly of iron – partly of clay”

• This is the interpretation: (Dan. 2:36+)
• “Babylon is the first kingdom – the
kingdom of gold”
• After you will as second kingdom arise –
inferior to you (as silver is inferior to gold).
• This is Persia

• A third kingdom of bronze will follow – this
is Greece
• (we know this is the rule of Alexander the
great – year 330 BC – later divided into
four part – one for each of his generals)
• And the forth kingdom – Rome – strong as
iron (27 BC to 476 AD)
• But Rome will be a “divided kingdom” (as
iron does not bond with clay)

• Notice: Daniels prophecy has so far been
fulfilled 100% (the first 500 years)
• The prophesy continues: (Dan. 2:44+)
• In the days of “the final kings” God of
heaven will set up “a final kingdom” which
shall never be destroyed
• Notice: This part of the prophecy has not
yet come to pass

• Daniel chapter 3 to10 now goes in great
detail about the time period 500 BC up to
Jesus birth
• (seventy times seven = 490 years)
• (all this has already been fulfilled)
• Chapter 11 to 12 deals with a new vision
given to Daniel

• It is the Lord speaking to Daniel:
“Now I have come to you to explain what
will happen to your people in the future”
• Daniel 11:35 – The time period describes
as “the end of time” is the end of the time
of gentiles (30 AD to 2000+ AD)
• Also called: The age of Grace

• This will happen at Gods appointed time:
• God is going to use anti-Christ to bring
Israel back to himself
• UN gave the Israelites back a portion of
their land in 1948
• But only a portion…
• God himself is “turning up the heat” until
Israel will “call out to God” for redemption

• About this time the Church will
be taken up in the sky to meet
Christ (the rapture)
• When the church is gone, antichrist will
start his rule
• First a period as peace-maker
where all people will love him
• Secondly a period as an evil ruler

• Understand this:
• All this is orchestrated by God
himself
• So don’t get mad or upset…
• And don’t get nasty or hateful towards
Gods other children – the Arabs – which
also is of Abrahams seed true Hagar

• Understand this in a historic prospective:
• Lucifer wanted to do “his own will”
(iniquity) and was cast down…
• Antichrist wants to do “his own will” as
well…
• Antichrist will set himself up “in the temple
of god” – displaying himself as god (2 thess.2:4)

• Daniel 11:37
• He will show “no regard for the gods of his
fathers”
• Notice:
• Gods in plural – not singular
• and gods with little g…

• The scripture is not saying The God of his
fathers (only King James does this
“mistake”)
• The gods of his fathers means “all other
gods that people pray to”
• (That means that antichrist not necessarily is
Jewish)
• He will show no regard for “the one desired
by woman” – which is Messiah - the Lord
Jesus

• Antichrist will prevent the practice of any
religion other them himself
• This period of tribulation will last 3,5 years
• There will be supernatural disasters (Rev. 6)
• Most believers will have to die for their
faith but will be saved
• (the once that have come to faith after the
rapture)

• But the Gospel of the Kingdom will be
preached to the whole world
• (by 144.000 Jewish missionaries)
• Those who endure to the end of this
tribulation will be delivered from anti-Christ
•by Jesus Christ (himself)

• Christ returns - at Mount olive in Jerusalem
• He set’s up His earthly kingdom
• Israel will now finally receive and accept
Christ
• Israel will finally receive their land back
with the borders as described
• (much bigger then today’s UN borders of
1948)

• Jesus the Messiah will rule Israel (and
the world) from Jerusalem
• This will go on for 1000 years
• We who were “taken up” in the rapture
(approx. 7 years earlier) will return and
“rule with Him”
• (try to imagine what that will look like…)

• What are the signs of His return (signs in
plural)
• NB. Second coming – not the rapture
• It is listed in Matt. 24 (verse 5 to 13)
• 1) Someone will say: I’m Christ (antichrist)
• 2) There will be famines
• 3) There will be persecution and killings

• 4) The Jews will be hated by all nations
• 5) People will turn away from faith
• 6) There will be false prophets
• 7) There will be wickedness and love will
grow cold
• But the gospel will be preached to the
whole world
• When you (Israel) see all these thing, you
know that the end is near
• (anti-Christ rule coming to an end)

• Notice: Israel getting a part of their land
back (in 1948 by UN) is not mentioned as
a sign of His returning (second coming)
• Matt 24:32-34
• The parable of the fig tree – and the
generation seeing this will not pass away
until this has all taken place

• But what is the definition of a generation ?
• “a multitude of people living at the same
time period with a definitive end” or
• “a group of individuals belonging to a
specific category at the same time”
• In other words:
• A generation can very all depending…

• A generation in Noah’s days was 120
years (until the flood)
• A generation in Moses days was 40 years
(until they entered the promised land)
• A generation in “the last days” is no more
then 7 years (under anti-Christ rule)

• In conclusion:
• 1) When Jesus talks to his disciples in
Matt. 24 about “the end of the age” he is
talking about his own second coming
• He is not talking about “the end of the
church age” and the rapture of the Saints,
• because this truth was not yet reveled to
the disciples or the church…

• 2) The signs of His coming again (second
coming), is primarily disciplinary actions
or tribulations brought against the people
and nation of Israel
• It is orchestrated by God (and executed by
antichrist) in an attempt to make them
(Israel) repent and turn to God
• (As prophesied in Deut 30:2)
• God has been waiting for this for more
then 2500 years

• 4) Israel has not yet repented and
consequently:
• not yet received their land back – (the
whole land from Egypt to Eufrait)
• Israel of 1948 is just a foretaste of what is
to come

• 3) Eventually Israel do repent
• (towards the end of the tribulation period)
• Christ returns
• Israel receives Him
• Christ sets up his earthly kingdom

• PS. God has it all under control
• Trust Him
• Rest in Him
• Continue to pray for Jerusalem

It’s ok to update your
understanding
and theology regarding Israel!
Get in line with the word!
(It is only statues that can’t
change their mind)
God bless you!

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