Why Do the Heathen Rage - Part 2

 
Dennis Edwards

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Israel’s Repentance Before the Battle of Armageddon

Revelation 16:16 “And He gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.”

While the Antichrist and the False Prophet are gathering the nations against Israel, something amazing has happened in Jerusalem and throughout Israel. The 1,260-day witness of the two prophets of God has taken effect. The Jewish people on seeing the resurrection of the two prophets, followed by Jesus coming in the clouds to gather together His elect from one end of heaven to the other, have repented. They have looked on Him who they have pierced, Jesus the Christ, and have mourned for Him, as one mourns for his only son, in great agony.

The leadership of Jerusalem and Israel both religious and secular will lead the nation to mourn and repent of their unbelief and come to faith in Jesus as the Messiah. Too late for the Rapture, but not too late for God to intervene and save them from their Antichrist enemies; who have entered into Israel, surrounded Jerusalem, and prepared for its final destruction.

Two thirds of Israel shall die during that horrendous period of Israel’s judgement, or around 4.7 million Jewish people out of the present Jewish population of 7 million. These deaths could include both those who die during the Antichrist’s first invasion of Israel at the beginning of the 3 ½ year period of Great Tribulation, and those that die later during his second invasion that leads up to the final battle at Armageddon.

Zechariah 13:8-9 “And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, says the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third part shall be left therein. 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: and they shall call upon My name, and I will hear them; I will say, It is My people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.”

But because of their repentance, God will bring one-third, or around 2.3 million of the Jewish population in Israel, through the refining fires and refine them as gold is tried. That third shall call upon the name of the Lord, and He will hear them. God will once again call them His people and they shall say, “The Lord is our God.” “It is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.” Jeremiah 30:6b.

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