Here meet the fourth of six entities accounted for in the final two chapters of John's Revelation. Truth to tell, Revelation merely hints at Israel's end-times story, for it is, after all, a book written to/for the churches. The full story of the Jews in the 70th Week traces an arc of suffering that begins with seeming peace and safety and ends with God's people seemingly on the brink of extinction. Nevertheless, as Paul says here and there: "But God . . . ! How God steps in to rescue and preserve His chosen people and how He turns their hearts to His Son as their Messiah should thrill every Christian. Gives me goosebumps!

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8. HASN’T GOD FINISHED WITH
THE JEWS ALREADY?
Didn’t Jesus curse the
barren fig tree (Israel) in
Matthew 21:19: “No
longer shall there ever
be any fruit from you?”

9. HASN’T GOD FINISHED WITH
THE JEWS ALREADY?
Didn’t Jesus weep over a
forsaken Jerusalem, saying
in Matthew 23:38: “Behold
your house is being left to
you desolate?”

10. Yes, but . . . . .

11. THE OLD TESTAMENT DECLARES
GOD’S FAITHFULNESS
“If the heavens above can be
measured, and the
foundations of the earth
searched out below,
Then I will cast off all the
offspring of Israel for all
that they have done.”
Jeremiah 31:37 (All of chapters 30 and 31
expand and reinforce this unshakeable
this promise!)

12. PAUL IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
DECLARES GOD’S FAITHFULNESS
“I say then, God has not
rejected His people, has He?
May it never be . . . .
God has not rejected His
people whom He foreknew . . .
. . . for the gifts and calling of
God are irrevocable!”
Romans 11:1, 2 and 29 (Remember Jer 30?)

13. PAUL IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
DECLARES GOD’S FAITHFULNESS
And is there some obscure
connotation to the ironhard word God has not
“I say then,
rejected His people, has He?
“irrevocable”. . . .
May it never be
God has doubt as
that leaves us in not rejected His
people whom He foreknew . . .
to how God wants us to
. . . for the gifts and calling of
view His gifts and
God are irrevocable!”
callings??
Romans 11:1, 2 and 29

14. FOR ME, END-TIMES PROPHECY PROVIDES THE SINGLE
MOST COMPELLING REASON TO BELIEVE ALL GOD’S
PROMISES TO ABRAHAM AND ISRAEL REMAIN IN FORCE.
IN BOTH THE OLD AND THE NEW TESTAMENTS’
TREATMENTS OF CHRIST’S RETURN, ONE
CONSTANTLY ENCOUNTERS ISRAEL’S PRESENCE,
HER TRIBULATION, HER TRIUMPH AND GOD’S
FAITHFULNESS TO HER.
ONS
C
LY!
ANT
T

15. ONLY WHEN JEWS EMBRACE JESUS
DOES JESUS RETURNS TO EARTH
1. Jesus makes a Jewish
national conversion a
condition for His return.
Matthew 23:39
2. The Holy Spirit enables
Jews to meet the condition.
Zech 12:10
3. Jews meet condition for
His return.
Zech 13:9
4. Jesus returns! Zech 14:3

16. THE CONDITION FOR CHRIST’S RETURN
1. Jesus in Matt 23:39: “For I say to you, from now on
you will not see Me until you say, “Blessed is He who
comes in the Name of the Lord.”
GOD ENABLES JEW
S TO SEE THE TRU
TH
2. Zech 12:10–”I will
pour out on the house
of David and
on the inhabitants of J
erusalem the Spirit of
grace and of
supplication, so that
they will look on M
e whom
they have pierced (
THAT’S JESUS!) and
they will
mourn for Him, as on
e mourns for an only
son . . . .”

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JESUS FULFILLS HIS PROMISE TO RETURN
4. Zechariah 14:3: Then the Lord will go forth and fight
against those nations . . . His feet will stand on the Mount
of Olives . . .” JESUS RETURNS WHEN HIS
PEOPLE CALL HIS NAME!!

18. PROPHECY DECLARES–
OMISES TO ISRAEL:
D FULFILLS HIS PR
THAT GO
ce throughout the
wish national existen
References to a Je
and NT prophecy.
ound throughout OT
70th Week ab
WHEN GOD FULFIL
LS HIS PROMISES T
O ISRAEL:
Old and New Testame
nts show Christ establi
shing Israel
in security and holines
s at and after the end o
f the 70th
week

19. PROPHECY DECLARES–
S TO ISRAEL: His
ILLS HIS PROMISE
WHY GOD FULF
hfulness-Ezekiel
grity demands His fait
own righteous inte
I am going to do
ot for your sakes that
36:22 states: “It is n
ly name . . .” (SEE
t for the sake of My ho
these things, bu
JEREMIAH 31:3)
ALSO

20. PROPHECY DECLARES–
S TO ISRAEL: His
ILLS HIS PROMISE
WHY GOD FULF
hfulness-Ezekiel
grity demands His fait
own righteous inte
I am going to do
ot for your sakes that
36:22 states: “It is n
ly name . . .” (SEE
t for the sake of My ho
these things, bu
JEREMIAH 31:3)
ALSO
WHERE GOD FULFI
LLS HIS PROMISES
TO ISRAEL:
The Wilderness (Ezek
20:35), Armageddon (
Ezek 38)
Hamon-Gog (Ezek 39
), Edom (Isaiah 63:1)
Jerusalem, Mount of O
lives and Azel (Zech 14
)

21. PROPHECY DECLARES–
WILL FOR ISRAEL:
CCOMPLISHES HIS
HOW GOD A
ent of Israel’s destiny
at accompany fulfillm
EVENTS th
-14, Olivet Discourse,
aniel 11, Zechariah 12
(Isaiah 66, D
elation 7 and 12)
Rev
out the 70th Week:
ES of events through
SEQUENC
he Sacrifice, Attack
ntiChrist, Stopping t
(Covenant with A
ah, city of Jerusalem)
, role of Tribe of Jud
on Jerusalem
of the Covenant,
IES involved (Prince
PERSONALIT
e of Judah, David etc)
t, 144 Thousand, Trib
AntiChris

22. PROPHECY DECLARES–
LISH HIS WILL
USES TO ACCOMP
METHODS GOD
FOR ISRAEL:
eople Matt 23: 37
PLEADS with His p
ariah 11, Isaiah 65:12
S and PURGES: Zech
PUNISHE
it on them Zech 12:10
NSES: Pours out Spir
CLEA
15, Zechariah 14:4+5
ROTECTS: Rev 12:6+
P
4, Isaiah 66: 22-24
S: Zechariah 12 and 1
RESCUE

23. PROPHECY DECLARES–
WHAT GOD ACCOMPLISHES F
OR ISRAEL:
RESTORES
Israel to land: Isaiah 66:10, 65:2
2
Temple and temple worship: Eze
kiel 40+
David to throne: Ezekiel 37:24, J
er 30:9 +10
Priesthood to Temple: Isaiah 66
:21, Ezekiel
44:15
Spirit of right worship: Zech 12:1
0, 13:1, Jer 31:27
Land to Productivity: Isaiah 65:2
2

24. IN BOTH OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT
TREATMENTS OF CHRIST’S RETURN,
ONE CONSTANTLY ENCOUNTERS
ISRAEL’S PRESENCE, HER
TRIBULATION, HER TRIUMPH AND
GOD’S FAITHFULNESS TO HER.

25. IN BOTH OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT
TREATMENTS OF CHRIST’S RETURN,
ONE CONSTANTLY ENCOUNTERS
ISRAEL’S PRESENCE, HER
TRIBULATION, HER TRIUMPH AND
GOD’S FAITHFULNESS TO HER.
CONSTANT
LY!

26. IN BOTH OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT
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FAITHFULNESS TO HER.
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IS
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OM
PR
CONSTANTLY!

27. Get set to look at the Jews of the
70th Week with
two competing mindsets:
And do not be
dismayed, O Israel, for
behold I will save you
from afar! Jer 30:10
Pessimism and Fear
VERSUS
Courageous Steadfast Hope

28. JEWS IN THE 70TH WEEK
Mindset 1: The Case For Fear

29. TRACING AN ARC OF SUFFERIN
G:
Act I: Establishing a Sense of Fals
e Security (1)
1. Seemingly Safe and Wealthy: Ezekiel 38: 8, 11+12
8: “Brought out from the nations living securely, all
of them . . .”
11: “unwalled villages . . . at rest . . that live securely,
all of them, without walls having no bars or
gates . . .”
12: a people “who have acquired cattle and goods . . .”
and (13) “silver and gold . . . cattle and goods” in
quantities sufficient to excite Gog to a lust for plunder.

30. Oh, Berean Christian, tighten your grip on The Word!
ALERT!!! The author of this piece inserts an element of
his own understanding of scripture. Know that good
and honest Christians hold other views of the matter.
Of what do I speak? I believe that Ezekiel 38 and 39 describe
events that take place on the threshold of the 70th Week. I
believe that these events establish the conditions under
which the 70th Week will begin. Please know that I could
MIS-understand how God intends us to respond to these two
pivotal chapters. Be open to my response and seek out other
contrary and honorable alternatives as you study further.

31. TRACING AN ARC OF SUFFERIN
G:
Act I: Establishing a Sense of Fals
e Security (2)
2. Seemingly Back in God’s Favor: Ezekiel 39
3: God crushes the invader: “And I shall strike your bow
from your left hand and dash down your arrows from
your right hand.”
4: “You shall fall on the mountains of Israel . . . and I
shall give you as food to every kind of predatory bird.”
Can we blame the Jews for thinking that God has saluted
their righteousness even though they still reject Jesus as
Christ? After all, He just rescued them miraculously
from Gog!

32. TRACING AN ARC OF SUFFERIN
G:
Act I: Establishing a Sense of Fals
e Security (3)
3. Seemingly Safe and Wealthy: Daniel 11: 21 + 24
(which I place after the events of Ezekiel 38 + 9)
11: The political figure who will, in 31/2 years, become
the AntiChrist, initially “will come in a time of
tranquility.” After Gog’s fall, peace once more!
24: “In a time of tranquility, he will enter the richest
parts of the realm . . .” Notice the word ‘richest’:
again, a reference to wealth Israelis have accumulated
just prior to the 70th Week.

33. TRACING AN ARC OF SUFFERIN
G:
Act I: Establishing a Sense of Fals
e Security (4)
4. Beguiled and Befriended: Daniel 9: 27, 11: 23
9:27–”And he (soon to be AntiChrist) will make a firm
covenant with the many . . .” to begin the 70th Week.
11:23– “And after an alliance is made with him (the
soon to be AntiChrist . . .”
What content or assurances does this covenant contain?
Is this the ‘holy covenant’ of Daniel 11:30 against which
the AntiChrist rages? Nonetheless, a friendly
relationship starts the 70th Week with the appearance of
a friendly new foreign collaborator.

34. TRACING AN ARC OF SUFFERIN
G:
Act II: Betrayed (1)
1. Betrayed: Daniel 11: 23, 31
11:23– “And after an alliance is made with him, he (the
soon to be AntiChrist) will practice deception . . .”
11:31– “And forces from him will arise, desecrate the
sanctuary fortress and do away with the regular
sacrifice . . . set up abomination of desolation”
AntiChrist, resurrected and enraged, turns on the Jews,
his erstwhile friends and colleagues of covenant.

35. TRACING AN ARC OF SUFFERIN
G:
Act III: Assaulted (1)
1. Assaulted: Daniel 11: 32, 34; 12:1
11:32– “And by smooth words he will turn to
godlessness those who act wickedly towards the
covenant . . .”
11:33– “. . .they (godly Jews) will fall by the sword
and by flame, by captivity and by plunder. . .”
12:1– “And there will be a time of distress such as
never occurred since there was a nation until that
time . . .”

36. TRACING AN ARC OF SUFFERIN
G:
Act III: Assaulted (2)
2. Assaulted: Revelation 12
12:13– “And when the dragon saw that he was thrown
down to the earth. he persecuted the woman (Israel)
who had given birth to the male Child (Jesus) . . .”
12:15– “And the serpent poured water like a river out
of his mouth after the woman, so that he might cause
her to be swept away with the flood. . .”
Daniel 11:22– “And the overflowing forces will be
flooded away before him . . .” I wonder if these ‘floods’
are in anyway related? Just asking!

37. TRACING AN ARC OF SUFFERIN
G:
Act IV: Pressed to Extinction
1. Crushed: Zechariah 14:1– “I will gather all the nations
against Jerusalem to battle, and . . .
the city will be captured
houses plundered
women ravished
half the city exiled
2. Ripped: 13:8– “And it will come about in all the
land . . . that two parts (2/3) in it will be cut off and
perish . . .”

38. Oh, Berean Christian, tighten your grip on The Word!
Does a negligent God seem heartless? See how He
allows Satan to press His people to the very brink of
extinction . . . to the very precipice of doom! Heartless?
No. God yearns to rescue. Prophecy declares God’s rescue,
its details, its sequence, its glory and its good effect. But first,
first, a stubborn, proud and rebellious people must repent,
must ‘call on My Name’ and say, ‘Jesus is our Messiah!” God
must wait for that moment, suffer with them, but wait. Jesus
says: “You shall not see Me until you say, “Blessed is He
(Jesus) who comes in the Name of the Lord.”
Matt 23:39

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JEWS IN THE 70TH WEEK
Mindset 2: The Case For Hope and Courage

40. OLD HIS PEOPLE
GOD HAS T
G IN ADVANCE.
EVERYTHIN
Amos 3:7–”Surely the Lord God does nothing unless
He reveals His secret counsel to His servants the
prophets.”
Almost every OT book warns the Jews about the
folly of disobedience and faithlessness to the
covenant they made under Moses with God.
Reams of prophetic material exist that spell out
Israel’s role in the end times.
Daniel 11:33 promises ‘people with insight who
will give understanding to the many’. They use
this information to guide those who listen.

41. ISRAEL PURGE
D
OF INIQUITY.
Ezekiel 22:15– “And I shall scatter you among the
nations and I shall disperse you through the lands
and I shall consume your uncleanness from you.
Isaiah 27:9– “Therefore through this (Jewish
banishment) Jacob’s iniquity will be forgiven.”
Daniel 11:35– “And some of those who have insight
will fall in order to refine, purge and make them
pure until the end time, because it is still to come at
the appointed time.”

42. PEOPLE
AIDS HIS
ECTS AND
OD PROT
G
Rev 12:6– “And the woman (Israel) fled into the
wilderness where she had a place prepared by God,
so that she might be nourished for 1260 days.”
Rev 12:16– “And the earth helped the woman, and
the earth opened its mouth and drank up the river
which the dragon poured out of his mouth.”
Zechariah 12-14– Describes how God arouses,
empowers and directs first Judah and then
Jerusalem itself into supernatural acts of military
heroism against those who would plunder them.

43. S PEOPLE
RAGES HI
D E NCOU
GO
Daniel 11:32– “. . . but the people who know their
God will display strength and take action.”
Daniel 11:33– “And those who have insight will give
understanding to the many: yet many will fall by
the sword . . .”
Daniel 11:34– “Now when they fall they will be
granted a little help and many will join them in
hypocrisy.” (An aside: the last phrase makes little sense to me. I even
suspect a misreading of the original. But what do I know?)

44. MNANT.
UES A RE
GOD RESC
Zechariah 13:8– “. . . two thirds in it will be cut off
and perish but the third will be left in it. And I will
bring the third part through the fire to refine them
as silver is refined.”
Zechariah 14:3– “Then the Lord will go forth . . . and
in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives
on the east, and the Mount of Olives will be split in
its middle from east to west by a very large
valley . . . and you will flee by this valley (from
Jerusalem).

45. 8. ‘And it shall come about on that day,’ declares the
Lord of hosts, ‘that I will break his yoke from off their
neck and will tear off their bonds and strangers shall
no longer make them slaves. But they shall serve the
Lord their God and David their king whom I will
raise up for them.’
10. ‘And fear not, O Jacob, My servant,’ declares the
Lord, ‘and do not be dismayed, O Israel, for behold, I
will save you from afar and your offspring from the
land of their captivity. And Jacob shall return and
be quiet and at ease.’ Jeremiah 30: 8 + 10
HOW GOD VIEWS HIS PEOPLE

46. JEWS IN THE 70TH WEEK
Relevance for ‘Everyday’ Christian Living

47. AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO FAITH
FOR CHRISTIANS
God promised to return
Israel to the land. In 1948
we saw–with our own
natural eyes!– evidence of
God’s faithfulness.
Seeing such evidence, can
we doubt that God keeps all
His promises-to us for
salvation, to His people for
redemption and restoration?
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48. A SOURCE OF INSTRUCTION
FOR CHRISTIANS

49. A SOURCE OF INSTRUCTION
FOR CHRISTIANS
God unfolds His plan in
the 70th Week of Jewish
history.
Christians mark time–
God’s time, by watching
Israel’s development.
God’s redemptive plan for
both groups unfolds
amidst the horrors of their
70th Week.

50. A MATTER OF OBEDIENCE
A partial hardening has
happened to Israel until
the fullness of the Gentiles
has come in and thus all
Israel shall be saved.
From the standpoint of
God’s choice, they are
beloved . . . for the gifts
and calling of God are
irrevocable! Rom 11:25+6

51. OUR NEXT FOCUS . . .

52. OUR NEXT FOCUS . . .
play a distinct and powerful
The so-called ‘nations’
e Apocalypse. In the popular
role in Revelation and th
rgely as targets of God’s
imagination, they serve la
erve as targets of God’s
wrath. In reality, they also s
t presentation and find
ercy and love. Go to the nex
m
out the rest of the story!

53. OUR NEXT FOCUS . . .
play a distinct and powerful
The so-called ‘nations’
e Apocalypse. In the popular
role in Revelation and th
rgely as targets of God’s
imagination, they serve la
erve as targets of God’s
wrath. In reality, they also s
t presentation and find
ercy and love. Go to the nex
m
out the rest of the story!
Next: XXXIV: The
Nations in Revelation

54. OUR NEXT FOCUS . . .
play a distinct and powerful
The so-called ‘nations’
e Apocalypse. In the popular
role in Revelation and th
rgely as targets of God’s
imagination, they serve la
erve as targets of God’s
wrath. In reality, they also s
t presentation and find
ercy and love. Go to the nex
m
out the rest of the story!
Search the
Table of Conte
nts
for Other Offer
ings In
This Series
Next: XXXIV: The
Nations in Revelation