New Testament Prophecy Fulfilled?
written by Maoz Israel
Before the Lord returns, Jerusalem must be firmly in the hands of the Jewish people.
Jesus said: "And they (the Jews) will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the Gentiles [i.e., nations] until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled." (Luke 21:24)
Jerusalem, from where one day the Son of David will reign over the earth.
This Scripture conveys several obvious facts. For Jerusalem to no longer be in the hands of the nations, Israel will have to repossess the Holy City. In order to do that, the Jewish people have to be living in the Holy Land and have an army in order to secure Jerusalem as their capital.
Over the last forty some years, this is exactly what has happened.
Today ancient Jerusalem is a city in deep conflict. Israel claims both east and west Jerusalem as its capital. The Palestinians claim that the Old City on the east side is theirs. Not a single country in the world recognizes either side of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital! Yet today Israel physically possesses the entire city.
Around the beginning of the 1900’s, many Jews began to immigrate to Israel from Europe, joining the destitute community of Jews who had lived in the Holy Land for countless generations.
In 1948, Israel, by a miracle, was accepted by the UN as a sovereign state, and in 1967, Israel conquered the Old City of Jerusalem, taking it away from Jordan whose army attacked Israel. (Jordan had taken possession of the Old City 19 years before.)
Many Christians who have been taught to believe the Church has replaced Israel in God’s global plans clearly do not comprehend this incredible miracle that points to the time of the end of the Gentile nations.
They do not see the fulfilling of prophecy because they do not understand the faithfulness of the God of Israel in keeping His promise to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Scores of Scriptures both in the Old and New Testaments confirm God’s sure covenant promise to Abraham.
Nevertheless, the UN, under the control of the Muslim core of nations, is doing everything in its power to seize the ancient city of Jerusalem and give it to the Muslims. Why? Because Satan, the god of this world, and therefore the overriding force in the UN, will fight with all his power to wrench Jerusalem out of Israel’s control. The prophet Zechariah wrote that Jerusalem will be the flash point that precipitates a world war.
But our point here is that today, according to a prophecy 2000 years old, we see Jerusalem back in the hands of the Jewish people. No matter how fragile the ownership, we know we are at this moment seeing the culmination of the times of the nations and will soon see the King of the Jews ruling from Jerusalem.
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