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O arrependimento de
Israel parece ocorrer no momento do arrebatamento, no final dos 3 anos e meio
da Grande Tribulação. A Grande Tribulação encontra-se nas trombetas de Apocalipse
8-10 e expressa noutras imagens em Apocalipse 11,12 e 13.
Estes dois profetas
estarão de alguma forma a trabalhar com Deus no envio das pragas encontradas em
Apocalipse 8-10. Talvez estejam a coordenar com os anjos que estão a
fazer soar as trombetas encontradas nesses capÃtulos.
“E, quando eles (os
dois profetas do fim dos tempos) acabarem o seu testemunho, a besta que sobe do
abismo lhes fará guerra, e os vencerá, e os matará,” Apocalipse 11:7.
O Anticristo possuÃdo
pelo Diabo fará guerra contra eles e matá-los-á no final do perÃodo de
tribulação de três anos e meio.
De seguida, invade
Israel na marca dos 3 anos e meio e coloca a abominação dentro ou sobre o Monte
do Templo, e interrompe o culto sacrificial judaico. É neste ponto que começa a
grande tribulação, falada por Jesus em Mateus 24:15&21.
No final do perÃodo de
3 anos e meio de tribulação, faz uma nova invasão a Israel para varrer o povo
judeu da face da terra, Salmo 83:4. É nesta altura que Ele parece ser
capaz de matar os dois profetas do fim dos tempos.
“E os homens de todos
os povos, tribos, lÃnguas e nações verão os seus cadáveres durante três dias e
meio, e não permitirão que os seus cadáveres sejam sepultados. E os que habitam
sobre a terra se alegrarão por causa deles, e se alegrarão, e enviarão presentes
uns aos outros; porque estes dois profetas atormentaram os que habitam na
terra”, Apocalipse 11:9-10.
Parece que estes dois
profetas estavam ligados à s 6 trombetas de pragas que caÃram sobre a Terra
durante aqueles 3 anos e meio de tribulação. As pessoas veem-nos como tal e
ficam felizes por terem morrido. Mas depois, enquanto o mundo se diverte e
acredita ter derrotado as forças de Deus, que percebem como malignas, os
profetas do fim dos tempos são ressuscitados.
47:1 O clap your hands, all you people; shout unto God with the
voice of triumph.
2 Corinthians 2:14 says,
“Now thanks be unto God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ.” Even in
death, “we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us,” Romans 8:36.
God, in the form of a man, “gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us
from this present evil world,” “and the power of darkness, and has translated
us into the kingdom of His dear Son,” Galatians 1:4, Colossians 1:13.
“For whosoever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is the victory that
overcomes the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcomes the world? He
that believes that Jesus is the Son of God,” 1 John 5:4-5.
We need to keep the heavenly vision, for without a vision
the people perish, they faint and fall away. We keep the vision by, “looking
unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith,” Hebrews 12:2. “For
here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come,” that is, “an
heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for He has
prepared for them a city,” “the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of
heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband,” Hebrews 13:14, 11:16, Revelation 22:2.
Psalm
47:2 For the Lord most high is terrible; He is a great
King over all the earth.
A stone, in the heavenlies, cut out without hands, is ready
to smite the kingdoms of this world. Christ the King will reign triumphant over
all. "And the seventh angel sounded (at the end of the three and a half years of great tribulation); and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He shall reign for ever and ever," Revelation 11:15.
Psalm
47:3 He shall subdue the people
under us, and the nations under our feet.
Apostle Paul explains how
Jesus will fulfil the subduing. 1 Corinthians 15:24-28 (NASB) “Then comes the end, when He (Christ) shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when He shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet. The last enemy that will be abolished is death. For He has put all things in subjection under His feet. But when He says, “All things are put in subjection,” it is evident that He is an exception who put all things in subjection to Him. When all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subjected to the One who subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all in all.”
We see the same imagery in Daniel 7:13-14 (NIV). “In my vision at night
I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man (Jesus), coming with
the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days (God the Father) and was led into
his presence. He (the Son of Man - Jesus) was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all
nations and peoples of every language worshiped Him. His dominion is an
everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that
will never be destroyed.”
Psalm
47:4 He shall choose our
inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom He loved. Selah.
We who
have believed on the name of the son of God have obtained the inheritance that
could not be obtained through the law. “Christ has redeemed us….that the blessing of Abraham might come on
the Gentiles through Him; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit
through faith,” Galatians
3:13-14. “There is
neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male
nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you be Christ's,
then are you Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise, Galatians
3:28-29. God will choose those that love and obey Him for His inheritance.
The blessing of Abraham shall come upon all those that believe and obey the
voice of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Psalm
47:5 God is gone up with a
shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.
At Jesus
coming we find the same imagery of shouting and trumpets sounding!
1Thessalonians
4:16-17 “For the Lord himself shall
descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the
trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:Then
we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the
clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so, shall we ever be with the Lord.
1 Corinthians
15:51-52 “Behold, I shew you a mystery; We
shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the
twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the
dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”
Matthew
24:29-31 “Immediately after the
tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not
give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the
heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of
man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall
see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall
gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the
other!
Psalm
47:6 Sing praises to God, sing
praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises.
God dwells in the praises of His people. In Psalm 100:1-2&4,
we read, “Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all you lands. Serve the Lord with gladness: come before His
presence with singing…Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His
courts with praise: be thankful unto Him, and bless His name.”
The New
Testament has the same admonition. Colossians 3:15-17 “And let the peace
of God rule in your hearts, to the which also you are called in one body; and
be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom;
teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatsoever you do in
word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and
the Father by him.”
Ephesians
5:18-21 “And be not drunk with wine,
wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; Speaking to yourselves
in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your
heart to the Lord; Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the
Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; Submitting yourselves one
to another in the fear of God.”
Psalm
47:7 For God is the King of all
the earth: sing praises with understanding.
Jesus
has gotten us the victory. Psalm98:1 says, “O sing unto the Lord a new song; for he hath done marvellous
things: His right hand, and His holy arm, has gotten Him the victory.” In
1 Corinthians 15:57 we read, “But thanks be to God, which gives us the
victory though our Lord Jesus Christ.” Daniel 2:44“And
in the days of these kings, (the 10 kings of the Antichrist world government),
shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and
the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and
consume all these kingdoms, (and destroy the Antichrist, his government, and
military), and God’s kingdom shall stand for ever.”
Psalm
47:8 God reigns over the
heathen: God sits upon the throne of His holiness.
Jesus
sits at the right hand of the Father. Revelation 7:9-12 says, “After
this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all
nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and
before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; And
cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sits upon the
throne, and unto the Lamb. And all the angels stood round about the
throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on
their faces, and worshipped God, Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and
wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for
ever and ever. Amen.” Romans 8:34 “It is Christ that died, yes
rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also
makes intercession for us.”
Psalm
47:9 The princes of the people
are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of
the earth belong unto God: He is greatly exalted.
The “shields
of the earth” signifies the leaders that protect the peoples of the earth. They
shall submit themselves unto God and to Christ at His coming.
In Isaiah
2:2-4, we read, “And it shall come to pass in the last
days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains,
and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
And many people shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of
the Lord, to
the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will
walk in His paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of
the Lord from
Jerusalem. And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many
people: and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears
into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall
they learn war anymore.”
After
the terrible time of great tribulation and wrath of God, the millennium
dispensation will begin. Jesus will make the wars to cease, He will destroy all
armaments, burning much of them by fire. God will be exalted among the nations.
He will be exalted in the earth, Psalm 46:9-10.
They
shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain: for the earth shall be full
of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea, Isaiah 11:9. Every
knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord over
all the earth, Philippians 2:19-11 reads,“Wherefore,
God also hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every
name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in
heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every
tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
Prayer: Lord, help us to walk in victory. Help us to shout and praise You in spite of the difficulties we may be facing at the moment. We know "that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us," Romans8:18. Help us to keep the heavenly vision. For "eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love Him," 1st Corinthians 2:9. Help us not to be weary and faint in our minds, but to rise up and fight the good fight with praise and thanksgiving. "In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you," 1st Thessalonians 5:18. "Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice!" Philippians 4:4. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen.
Salmo 47:1-2 Batan palmas, pueblos todos; aclamen a Dios con voz de triunfo. Porque el Señor AltÃsimo es terrible; es un gran Rey sobre toda la tierra.
Aquà parece que retomamos el tema donde terminó el salmo anterior. Jesús ha regresado y ha comenzado el Milenio de su reinado en la tierra. La palabra de Dios nos dice que los santos resucitados gobernarán y reinarán con Cristo durante mil años. Habrán recibido sus cuerpos resucitados, que asumimos son similares a los de los ángeles. Los ángeles en la Biblia parecen tener la capacidad de aparecer y desaparecer. Parecen tener la capacidad de aparecer como humanos e interactuar con la población humana, o al menos con aquellos humanos sensibles a Dios.
Salmo 46:3-4 Él someterá pueblos bajo nuestros pies, y naciones bajo nuestros pies. Nos escogerá nuestra heredad, la excelencia de Jacob, a quien amó. Selah.
Abraham, Isaac y Jacob son los padres de la fe. Si somos de Cristo, entonces somos descendientes de Abraham y Jacob, y herederos de su herencia (Gálatas 3:29).
Algunos expositores creen que, en el momento del rapto, un tercio de la nación judÃa vendrá a Dios. En ZacarÃas encontramos:
Si recuerdan nuestro estudio de Ezequiel 38-39, Dios primero trae la confederación del Anticristo contra Israel y sus aliados para castigarlos por sus pecados e iniquidades. Lo que sembraron para el pueblo palestino, eso cosecharán. Luego, a medida que Israel se arrepienta, o al menos un tercio de Israel se arrepienta, Dios podrá defender a Israel y castigar a sus enemigos, el Anticristo. Dos tercios de la nación de Israel morirán durante las guerras del Anticristo.
El arrepentimiento de Israel parece tener lugar en el momento del rapto, al final de los tres años y medio de la Gran Tribulación. La Gran Tribulación se encuentra en las trompetas de Apocalipsis 8-10 y se expresa en otras imágenes en Apocalipsis 11, 12 y 13.
Estos dos profetas estarán trabajando de alguna manera con Dios al enviar las plagas que se encuentran en Apocalipsis 8-10. Quizás se coordinen con los ángeles que tocan las trompetas que se encuentran en esos capÃtulos.
“Y cuando ellos (los dos profetas del fin de los tiempos) hayan terminado su testimonio, la bestia que sube del abismo hará guerra contra ellos, los vencerá y los matará”, Apocalipsis 11:7.
El Anticristo, poseÃdo por el Diablo, hará guerra contra ellos y los matará al final del perÃodo de tribulación de tres años y medio.
Luego invade Israel al cumplirse los tres años y medio y coloca la abominación en el Monte del Templo, deteniendo asà el culto sacrificial judÃo. Es entonces cuando comienza la gran tribulación, de la que habla Jesús en Mateo 24:15 y 21.
Al final del perÃodo de tres años y medio de tribulación, realiza una nueva invasión a Israel para exterminar al pueblo judÃo de la faz de la tierra (Salmo 83:4). Es entonces cuando parece poder matar a los dos profetas del fin de los tiempos.
“Y los de los pueblos, tribus, lenguas y naciones verán sus cadáveres por tres dÃas y medio, y no permitirán que sean sepultados. Y los moradores de la tierra se alegrarán por ellos y se alegrarán, y se enviarán regalos unos a otros, porque estos dos profetas habÃan atormentado a los moradores de la tierra” (Apocalipsis 11:9-10).
Parece que estos dos profetas estaban relacionados con las seis trompetas de las plagas que caen sobre la tierra durante esos tres años y medio de tribulación. La gente los ve asà y se alegra de haber muerto. Pero entonces, justo cuando el mundo se alegra y cree haber derrotado a las fuerzas de Dios, que percibe como malvadas, los profetas del fin de los tiempos resucitan.
Recuerden, el pueblo judÃo habrá estado sufriendo bajo el Anticristo durante tres años y medio. Habrán escuchado y visto a los dos profetas del fin de los tiempos. Algunos de ellos se convertirán al cristianismo y serán arrebatados a la venida del Señor. Pero según las Escrituras, es en el momento del rapto, y al ver al Señor en los cielos, que un tercio de la nación judÃa se arrepiente de su apostasÃa y cree en el Señor Jesucristo. Gracias a su verdadero arrepentimiento, Dios podrá intervenir con justicia y volver a luchar por Israel, como en los tiempos antiguos. Leeremos de nuevo ZacarÃas:
Dios salvará a un remanente del pueblo judÃo que se arrepienta de su incredulidad en Cristo en el momento del rapto. Él entonces luchará por ellos contra el Anticristo y su confederación. Ezequiel 38-39 y Apocalipsis 19:11-21 muestran el terrible resultado de esa guerra. El mal será derrotado y Cristo reinará en la tierra por mil años.
Salmo 47:5: Dios ascendió con voz de mando, el Señor con sonido de trompeta.
“Porque el Señor mismo descenderá del cielo con voz de mando, con voz de arcángel y con trompeta de Dios; y los muertos en Cristo resucitarán primero; luego nosotros los que vivimos, los que hayamos quedado, seremos arrebatados juntamente con ellos en las nubes para recibir al Señor en el aire, y asà estaremos siempre con el Señor” (1 Tesalonicenses 4:16-17).
“Y vivieron y reinaron con Cristo mil años”, Apocalipsis 20:4b.
Salmo 47:6-8 Cantad alabanzas a Dios, cantad alabanzas; cantad alabanzas a nuestro Rey, cantad alabanzas. Porque Dios es el Rey de toda la tierra: cantad alabanzas con entendimiento. Dios reina sobre las naciones; Dios se sienta en el trono de su santidad.
Es durante ese perÃodo de mil años que los hombres ya no aprenderán a guerrear.
Salmo 47:9 Los prÃncipes de los pueblos se han reunido, sÃ, el pueblo del Dios de Abraham; porque de Dios son los escudos (o lÃderes de las naciones) de la tierra; Él es muy exaltado.
“Y el que no se halló inscrito en el libro de la vida fue lanzado al lago de fuego. Y la muerte y el Hades fueron lanzados al lago de fuego. Esta es la muerte segunda”, Apocalipsis 20:15-14.
Esa es la pregunta que todos debemos responder. Jesús es la puerta a la vida eterna. No hay otra. “Yo soy el camino, la verdad y la vida; nadie va al Padre sino por mÔ (Juan 14:6). ¿Entras por la puerta? ¿O intentas subir por otra?
Jesús dijo: “Entrad por la puerta estrecha; porque ancha es la puerta y espacioso el camino que lleva a la perdición, y muchos son los que entran por ella; porque estrecha es la puerta y angosto el camino que lleva a la vida, y pocos son los que la hallan” (Mateo 7:13-14).
Psalm
47:1-2 O clap your hands, all you people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph. For the Lord most high is terrible; he is a
great King over all the earth.
Here we
seem to be picking up from where the last psalm left off. Jesus has come back
and the Millennium period of Christ’s rule on earth has begun. God’s word tells
us that the resurrected saints shall rule and reign with Christ for a thousand
years. They will have received their resurrected bodies which we assume are
similar to those of angels. Angels in the Bible seem to be able to appear and
disappear. They seem to be able to appear as humans and interact with the human
population or at least with those humans who are sensitive to God.
Psalm
47:3-4 He shall subdue the people
under us, and the nations under our feet. He shall choose our inheritance for
us, the excellency of Jacob whom He loved. Selah.
Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob are the fathers of faith. If we are Christ's, then we are
Abraham’s and Jacob’s seed, and heirs of their inheritance, Galatians 3:29.
Some
expositors believe that at the time of the rapture 1/3 of the Jewish nation
will come to God. In Zechariah we find,
“And I will
bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is
refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on My name, and I
will hear them: I will say, It is My people: and they shall say, The Lord is my
God,” Zechariah 13:9.
Elsewhere
in Zechariah we find the collaborating verses.
“And it
shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations
that come against Jerusalem,” Zechariah 12:9.
If you
remember from our study of Ezekiel 38-39, God first brings the
Antichrist confederacy against Israel and her allies to chastise them for their
sins and iniquities. What they have sown to the Palestinian people, they shall
reap. Then as Israel repents, or at least 1/3 of Israel repents, God is able to
come to Israel’s defence and chastise her Antichrist enemies. 2/3 of the nation
of Israel shall die during the Antichrist’s wars.
Israel’s
repentance seems to take place at the time of the rapture, at the end of the 3 ½
years of Great Tribulation. The Great Tribulation is found in the trumpets of Revelation
8-10 and expressed in other imagery in Revelation 11,12, and 13.
During the
3 ½ years of tribulation, we remember that the two end-time prophets have been prophesizing
in Jerusalem and preforming miracles.
“And I will
give power unto My two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two
hundred and threescore days (3 ½ years), clothed in sackcloth…And if any man
will hurt them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies: and
if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. These have power
to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power
over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth will all plagues, as
often as they will,” Revelation 11:3,5-6.
These two
prophets will some how be working with God in the sending down the plagues found
in Revelation 8-10. Maybe they will be coordinating with the angels who
are sounding the trumpets found in those chapters.
“And when
they (the two end-time prophets) shall have finished their testimony, the beast
that ascends out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall
overcome the, and kill them,” Revelation 11:7.
The Devil
possessed Antichrist will make war against them and kill them at the end of the
3 ½ year tribulation period.
“And their
dead bodies shall be in the street of the great city, which spiritually is
called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified,” Revelation 11:8.
Obviously,
they will be slain in Jerusalem. The Antichrist and his confederacy will fight
an extended war with Israel. He first seems to be involved with the
implementing of the Holy Covenant that allows the Jewish nation to begin
sacrificial worship in Jerusalem on the Temple Mount. That takes place at the
beginning of the last 7 years.
He then
invades Israel at the 3 ½ year mark and places the abomination in or on the
Temple Mount, and stops the Jewish sacrificial worship. It is at that point when
the great tribulation begins, spoken by Jesus in Matthew 24:15&21.
At the end
of the 3 ½ year period of tribulation, he makes a further invasion of Israel to
wipe the Jewish people off the face of the earth, Psalm 83:4. It is at
that point, that He seems to be able to kill the two end-time prophets.
“And they
of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies
three days and a half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in
graves. And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make
merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets
tormented them that dwelt on the earth,” Revelation 11:9-10.
It seems
these two prophets were connected with the 6 trumpets of plagues that fall upon
the earth during that 3 ½ years of tribulation. The people see them as such and
are glad they have died. But then, just as the world is making merry, and
believe they have defeated the forces of God, that they perceive as evil, the
end-time prophets are resurrected.
“And after
three days and a half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they
stood on their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. And they
heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they
ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them,” Revelation
11:11-12.
The two
end-time prophets will be raptured up after the tribulation of those days, as
Jesus prophesized.
“Immediately
after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon
shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the
powers of the heaven shall be shaken: and then shall appear the sign of the Son
of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they
shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great
glory. And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they
shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to
the other,” Matthew 24:29-31.
Remember,
the Jewish people will have been suffering under the Antichrist for 3 ½ years.
They will have heard and seen the two end-time prophets. Some of them will
convert and become Christian and be raptured at the coming of the Lord. But it
seems from Scripture, that it is at the time of the rapture event, and seeing
the Lord in the heavenlies, that 1/3 of the Jewish nation repent of their
apostacy and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Because of their true repentance,
God will be able to justly intervene and once again fight for Israel, as in the
days of old. We will read from Zechariah once again.
“And I will
pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit
of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon Me whom they have
pierced, and they shall mourn for Him, as one mourns for his only son, and
shall be in bitterness for Him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem,” Zechariah
12:10-11a.
God will
save a remnant of the Jewish people who repent of their unbelief in Christ at
the time of the rapture. He will then fight for them against the Antichrist and
his confederacy. Ezekiel 38-39 and Revelation 19:11-21 show the
terrible outcome of that war. Evil will be defeated and Christ shall reign on
earth for a thousand years.
Psalm
47:5 God is gone up with a shout,
the Lord with the sound
of a trumpet.
“For the
Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an
archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the
clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord,” 1
Thessalonians 4:16-17.
At that
point in time, Christ does not initiate His earthly rule. He comes in the
heavens and raptures His elect and then escapes with them to a heavenly realm.
It is after appearing before the judgment seat of Christ and receiving our
rewards at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, that we return with Christ during
the Battle of Armageddon to take physical control of the earth and begin the
1000-year Millennium period.
“And they
lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years,” Revelation 20:4b.
Psalm
47:6-8 Sing praises to God, sing
praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises. For God is the King of all
the earth: sing praises with understanding. God reigns over the heathen: God
sits upon the throne of His holiness.
It is
during that thousand-year period that men will no longer learn to war.
“And it shall
come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be
established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills;
and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come, and
let us go up to the mountains of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob;
and He will teach us His ways, and we will walk in His paths: for out of Zion
shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And He shall
judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat
their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation
shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore,” Isaiah
2:2-4.
Psalm
47:9 The princes of the people are
gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields (or
leaders of the nations) of the earth belong unto God: He is greatly exalted.
As the
Millennium begins, the peoples that have survived it, shall be given their
opportunity to know and love the Lord. These nations were unbelieving at the
time of the rapture. God in His extended mercy gives them another chance to
come to faith and learn of the love, and mercy, and fear, and knowledge of the
Lord.
“And it
shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came
against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the
Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. And it shall be, that
whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to
worship the King, the Lord of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain,” Zechariah
14:16.
These
unbelieving nations will be given their chance to come to faith in Christ. But
as the Scripture shows, even after all that has happened some will be slow to
believe. God will have to use the weather to chastise them and convince them to
believe in Him. Even here we see that God does not force conversion. He lets
man’s free will decide for himself. Eventually, slowly, but surely, all will
come to believe. Those that do hold out and refuse God’s calling to faith, will,
of their own volition, choose the second death.
“And whosoever was not found written in the book of
life was cast into the lake of fire. And death and hell were cast into the lake
of fire. This is the second death,” Revelation 20:15&14.
The choice
is ours. Like Moses spoke to the descendants of Israel 3,500 years ago, we
choose our own destiny. “I call heaven and earth to record this day against
you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore,
choose life, that both you and your seed may live. That you may love the Lord
your God, and that you may obey His voice, and that you may cleave to Him: for
He is life,” Deuteronomy 30:19-20a.
Are you
choosing life or death? Jesus said, “I am the resurrected and the life: he that
believes in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever lives and
believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
That’s the
question we all need to answer. Jesus is the door to eternal life. There is no
other. “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man goes unto the Father, but
by Me,” John 14:6. Are you entering in through the door? Or trying to
climb up some other way?
Jesus said,
“Enter in at the straight gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way,
that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in there at: because
straight is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads unto life, and few
there be that find it,” Matthew 7:13-14.
If you have
not found Him yet, call out to Him today. He says, “Call upon Me, and I will
answer you,” Jeremiah 33:3a. We’ve got to do the calling. We’ve got to
do the searching. But He tells us, “Seek and you shall find,” Matthew 7:7b.
“And you shall seek Me, and find Me, when you shall search for Me with all your
heart,” Jeremiah 29:13. He leaves it up to us. But His Spirit is calling,
“Come, everyone that thirst, come to the waters and drink…Incline your ear, and
come unto Me: hear, and your soul shall live,” Isaiah 55:1-3 abbreviated.
It’s just that simple. It’s up to each one of us to answer the call and come.
“Come unto
Me, all you that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My
yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly of heart: and you shall
find rest unto your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light,” Matthew
11:28-30.
Salmo 47:5: Dios subió con voz de mando, el Señor con sonido de trompeta.
¡Con la venida de Jesús encontramos la misma imagen de gritos y trompetas sonando!
1 Tesalonicenses 4:16-17: “Porque el Señor mismo con voz de mando, con voz de arcángel y con trompeta de Dios, descenderá del cielo; y los muertos en Cristo resucitarán primero. Luego nosotros, los que vivimos, los que hayamos quedado, seremos arrebatados juntamente con ellos en las nubes para recibir al Señor en el aire; y asà estaremos siempre con el Señor”. Señor.
1 Corintios 15:51-52 “He aquÃ, os digo un misterio: No todos dormiremos, pero todos seremos transformados, en un momento, en un abrir y cerrar de ojos, a la final trompeta; porque se tocará la trompeta, y los muertos resucitarán incorruptibles, y nosotros seremos transformados.”
Salmo 47:6 Cantad alabanzas a Dios, cantad alabanzas; cantad alabanzas a nuestro Rey, cantad alabanzas.
Dios habita en las alabanzas de su pueblo. En el Salmo 100:1-2 y 4, leemos: «Cantad con gozo al Señor, toda la tierra. Servid al Señor con alegrÃa; venid ante su presencia con cánticos… Entrad por sus puertas con acción de gracias, por sus atrios con alabanza; dadle gracias, bendecid su nombre».
Salmo 47:9 Los prÃncipes de los pueblos se han reunido, el pueblo del Dios de Abraham; porque de Dios son los escudos de la tierra; Él es ensalzado en gran manera.
Los “escudos de la tierra” representan a los lÃderes que protegen a los pueblos de la tierra. Se someterán a Dios y a Cristo en su venida.
Deus salvará um
remanescente do povo judeu que se arrepender da sua descrença em Cristo no
momento do arrebatamento. Lutará então por eles contra o Anticristo e a sua
confederação. Ezequiel 38-39 e Apocalipse 19:11-21 mostram o
terrÃvel resultado daquela guerra. O mal será derrotado e Cristo reinará na
Terra durante mil anos.
Salmo 47:5Deus subiu entre aplausos, o Senhor
subiu ao som de trombeta.
Está a escolher a vida
ou a morte? Jesus disse: “Eu sou o ressuscitado e a vida: aquele que acredita
em mim, ainda que esteja morto, viverá; e todo aquele que vive e crê em mim
nunca morrerá. Você acredita nisso?” João11:25-26.
Se ainda não O
encontrou, clame a Ele hoje. Ele diz: “Invoca-me, e eu te responderei”, Jeremias
33:3a. Temos de fazer a chamada. Temos de fazer a pesquisa. Mas Ele
diz-nos: “Procurai e encontrareis”, Mateus 7:7b. “E buscar-me-eis, e me
achareis, quando me buscardes de todo o vosso coração,” Jeremias 29:13.
Ele deixa isso para nós. Mas o Seu EspÃrito está a chamar: “Vinde, todos os que
tendes sede, vinde à s águas e bebei… Inclinai os vossos ouvidos, e vinde a Mim
ouvi, e a vossa alma viverá”, IsaÃas 55:1-3 abreviado. É tão simples
quanto isso. Cabe a cada um de nós atender ao chamamento e vir.
