1. EZEKIEL’S PROPHECY
Verse 11 gives the interpretation:
“these bones are the whole
house of Israel.” This was her
condition for the past 2,000
years. She was scattered to the
ends of the earth, and it appeared
that she was dead and finished.
2. BACK IN THE LAND
The Six-Day War 1967
Israel faced Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq, with Saudi Arabia, Sudan,
Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria contributing troops and arms.
3. BACK IN THE LAND
• Israel faced 250,000 troops,
2,000 tanks, and 700 aircraft.
America and France imposed an
arms embargo on Israel, but the
Soviet Union flooded the Arabs
with war materiel.
4. BLINDNESS
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs says, “Even today, there is no
regular study of the Bible itself in ultra-Orthodox yeshivas”
5. ISRAEL: PRESENT
Conclusion: Israel’s present is evidence of the truth of God’s
Word. She is back in the land but is spiritually blind. She hosts a
false Christianity. And she is unwittingly preparing for the
coming of the Antichrist.
6. PHYLACTERY
God instructed the Jews to wear
the Scripture on their foreheads
(Deut. 6:8). This is called a
phylactery (Mat. 23:5).
Traditionally they contain four
tiny scrolls inscribed with the
following Scripture portions:
Exodus 13:1-10; 11:16;
Deuteronomy 6:4-9; 11:13-21.
12. ANTI-SEMITISM
The Roman Catholic Church was back of most of the
persecution of the Jews in Europe during the Dark Ages
13. EVIDENCE AT THE
SHRINE OF THE BOOK
It contains scro"s found in caves near the Dead Sea. The roof is in the
shape of the lid of the clay jars that protected the scro"s; the corridor
leading into the museum resembles a cave.
14. EVIDENCE AT ISRAEL
MUSEUM
Items in ivory excavated from Ahab’s
palace in Samaria. The Bible mentions
Ahab’s ivory palace (1 Kings 22:39), and
many fragments of carved ivory items
have been found. Also found in the palace
area was an opal signet ring containing
the name Jezebel.
Seal of Jezebel, Israel Museum
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16. Inscription “To Herod King of the Jews” on a piece of pottery that was
used to import wine.
17. 586 B.C.
The First Temple was
destroyed by Babylon under
Nebuchadnezzar as
punishment for Israel’s sin
18. 63 B.C.
The Roman armies
conquered Jerusalem and
Emperor Pompey rode his
horse into the Jewish
Temple
It had impressive colonnaded boulevards, public buildings and temples
We believe that the Dome of the Rock will be replaced by a third temple, associated with the time of the antichrist.
In 586 B.C., the First Temple was destroyed by the Babylonian armies under Nebuchadnezzar (2 Kings 25:9). The reason was Israel’s sin against God (2 Chron. 26:15-21). Before the destruction the glory of God had departed from the Temple according to Ezekiel’s vision (Ezek. 10:18; 11:23).
In 63 B.C. the Roman armies conquered Jerusalem, and the emperor Pompey rode his horse into the Temple.
In 71 A.D. the first in a series of Vespasian coins was struck in silver, bronze, and gold. (Some might have been made from gold taken from the Temple.) The Emperor Vespasian’s head appears on one side. (He led the Roman armies against Israel until his son Titus took over when he was crowned emperor at Caesarea Maritima in 69 A.D.) The words Ivdaea Capta (“Judea has been conquered”) or Ivdaea Devicta (“Judea has been defeated”) were engraved around the rim. Israel was usually depicted as a weeping woman sitting by a palm tree with her hands tied behind her back or in front, though in some she is standing. On some coins she is guarded by the Roman emperor clothed in his military gear and standing in a victory pose with one foot on an enemy soldier’s helmet. In publishing these coins, the Roman authorities were unwittingly depicting the ancient prophecy of Isaiah that because of her sin Israel would fall and “she being desolate shall sit upon the ground” (Isaiah 3:26).
In 1866 Jews became a majority in Jerusalem for the first time in 1200 years, and the southern end of the Western Wall was modified to facilitate Jewish prayer, but they were still restricted to a narrow alley that ran along the wall.
In January 2005 the Jewish Sanhedrin met for the first time in 1,600 years. In June of that year it was reported that the newly formed Sanhedrin was calling upon all groups involved in Temple Mount research to prepare detailed architectural plans for the reconstruction of the Jewish Holy Temple (“New Sanhedrin Plans Rebuilding of Temple,” WorldNetDaily, June 8, 2005).
In coming days the Third Temple will be built under the false peace program of the Antichrist and will be desecrated by him (Daniel 9:27; Matt. 24:15; 2 Thess. 2:3-4; Rev. 11:1-2).
