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The Remnant of Israel Finds Repentance
At the end of the 3 ½ years of tribulation, the Lord returns in the clouds to gather his elect from the four ends of the earth.
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.”
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 “But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 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. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
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.”
Revelation 10:7 “But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel (the last trump), when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he has declared to his servants the prophets.”
At that point, as the Rapture takes place, a remnant of Israel shall mourn and repent and call upon the Lord in truth. As a result, the Lord repents of destroying them and instead fights for them against their Antichrist enemies. The repenting of Israel takes place after the Rapture, at the beginning of the Wrath of God.
Zechariah 12:4-6 “In that day, saith the Lord, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness. And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the Lord of hosts their God. In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.”
Zechariah 12:7-9 “The Lord also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah. In that day shall the Lord defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them. And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.”
Zechariah 12:10 “And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications (prayer): 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 shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart; The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart; All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.”
Israel's repents at seeing the Lord in the clouds. They have witnessed the two prophets in Jerusalem rising on their feet at the Rapture event after having been dead for three days and a half. They have seen the Lord coming in the clouds of heaven. Now they see their enemies ready to destroy them. They come to a true repentance and mourn and repent of their sins. They believe on the Lord Jesus as their God, because they have looked on Him who they have pierced. They have seen with their eyes; and they have come to faith, and a deep mourning prevails throughout the land. A true repentance takes place. God is, therefore, able to righteously intervene and save them from their enemies, who themselves are antichrist.
Thus will be fulfilled the prophecy of Apostle Paul from his letter to the Romans.
Romans 11:25-26 "For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: for this my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins."
It seems the above prophecy will be fulfilled after the Rapture when a remnant of the Jewish people in Israel shall repent and turn to Jesus as their Lord.
Romans 9:27 "Isaiah also cries concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved."
If we go to Isaiah we can see the context of the prophecy, we find the following:
Isaiah 10:20-21 "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay (or depend) upon him that smote them (the secular imperial power); but shall stay (or depend) upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. The remnant (the 1/3 remnant from Zechariah's prophecy that God will bring through the fire of the Antichrist's hands) shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God."
The phrase "Holy One of Israel" and "the mighty God" are both referring to Jesus.
In the Gospel of Mark, we read where the first demon Jesus casts out called Him, "the Holy One of God."
Mark 1:23-25 "And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God. And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him."
Apostle Peter in the Book of Acts refers to Jesus as the Holy One of God in his witnessing to the Jews in Jerusalem.
Acts 3:13-15 "The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go. But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses."
In Isaiah we find the passage indicating the "mighty God" is referring to Jesus.
Isaiah 9:6 "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace."
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