God, Israel, The Church, Blood Moons, & The End Times!

In his famous essay, “Concerning the Jews,” Mark Twain said the following:

The Egyptian, the Babylonian and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor,

then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed, and made

a vast noise, and they are gone; other people have sprung up and held their torch high for a

time, but it burned out and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished. The Jew saw them all,

beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age,

no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive

mind. All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the

secret of his immortality?

“What is the secret of his immortality?” Since no people who have been without a homeland for more than forty years have continued to exist as a nation, it begs the question of how Israel continues to exist as a nation although they were without a homeland for almost two thousand years! The answer to that question is a major key to understanding the end times. The existence of Israel is the living, tangible proof of the existence of the one true God! Israel is a reminder to an unbelieving world that God is, and that He must be reckoned with. In the arrogant and proud world of modernity where men see themselves as answerable to no one, the existence of the Jew tells another story. And that story says that there is a God and that all people are accountable to Him. Let’s take a brief look at that story.

In 70 AD Jerusalem was burned to the ground and the Jewish people were scattered to the nations. This is known in history as the Jewish Diaspora. Israel as a nation was no more. But then, miraculously, after a series of events that began with the Balfour Declaration,[1] on May 14, 1948, Israel became a nation again after almost nineteen hundred years!

There really is no “natural” explanation for how this could happen. The only reasonable conclusion that can be drawn is that there is a God and that the Jewish people are His chosen nation. God chose them to be the nation through whom He would reveal Himself to the world. They are the nation through whom came the Messiah, Jesus Christ. And through Jesus, the Church has been grafted in to this supernatural Jewish root. And although now most of Israel is in unbelief, God has made eternal promises to them as a nation which He will fulfill!

Consequently, there is coming a day in which all of Israel will be saved.[2] The Church will play a major role in Israel’s salvation at the time of the end, but that is another subject for another time.

“In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.” David Ben Gurion  

Besides Israel’s miraculous rebirth as a nation in 1948, and their equally miraculous retaking of Jerusalem in June of 1967 in the Six Day War,[3] there is another miraculous event that must not be overlooked with regard to the nation of Israel. I am referring to the blood moons that have occurred over the last five hundred and twenty two years. According to NASA, there have been three tetrads of blood moons[4] which have occurred on JEWISH FEAST DAYS during this period. Those feasts are Passover and Tabernacles, the first and last of the seven Jewish Feasts from the Old Testament.[5] These tetrads of blood moons have occurred as follows: On Passover and Tabernacles in 1493-1494 following the Spanish Inquisition in which over 200,000 Jews were expelled from Spain; In 1949-1950 on Passover and Tabernacles following the rebirth of Israel as a nation in 1948 and then being viciously attacked by several Muslim countries; On Passover and Tabernacles in 1967-1968 following the six day war in which again Israel was attacked by five of her Muslim neighbors. In each of the above instances, something negative happened to the Jews followed by something positive.[6] Most recently blood moons have occurred on Passover and Tabernacles in 2014 and also on Passover 2015. The last blood moon to occur on these two Jewish feasts for hundreds of years will be on Tabernacles on September 28 of this year. It remains to be seen what events will negatively and then positively affect the Jews during these ongoing tetrads, but with the Middle East, Iran and an anti-Semitic president in the White House, something is on the horizon!  The point here is that God is even using the heavens to tell the world that there is no God but Jehovah—the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Who but the One True God could control the heavens and use the sun and the moon as signs of His existence? These signs in the heavens are God’s megaphone to an unbelieving world, announcing loud and clear, that He alone is God, and besides Him there is no other! That reality is both terrifying and comforting at the same time. To the unbeliever it is terrifying because it is evidence and proof of the One True God to Whom he is accountable; on the other hand, to the believer it is comforting because it is evidence that no matter what happens in this world, His God, Who is God, is in control!

I have one final thought for you in this article. I want to give you something that I believe will help you and give you a context for a better understanding of what will happen in the end times. The reason why anti-Semitism and anti-Christian hatred will increase as we get closer to the time of the end is because these are the two people groups of the One True God! The devil and all who belong to him, regardless of what they call themselves, will persecute Israel and the true Church.[7] You can see this persecution growing every day around the world. And it will continue to grow. As we get closer to the time when the One True God will step in and put an end to Satan’s rebellion, a person’s heart will be revealed by how they view and treat Israel and the true Church. For a vivid example look no further than President Obama. The hatred of the Jew and the hatred of the true born again Church—two visible realities—are in essence the hatred of the One True God—the invisible reality.

Although this hatred will increase and then finally find its full expression in the last world empire, the beast kingdom of Satan and the Antichrist, the One True God and His people— Israel and the Church— will be triumphant in the end![8]

As the pages of prophecy are turning, I ask you dear friend, where are you and where will you be in this eternal story?

For spiritual help please visit our website, warriorassemblyofgod.com. Then click on “Spiritual Help” and read “Life’s Greatest Decision.” Shalom

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[1] The Balfour Declaration (dated 2 November 1917) was a letter from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild (Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist.

“His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.” (This is taken from Wikipedia)

[2] Romans 11:25-28

[3] The Jews took control of Jerusalem in June of 1967 for the first time since 70AD!

[4] Tetrad means four.

[5] Please visit my blog, warriorprophet.blogspot for more detailed information on this subject

[6] I again refer you to my blog for a full explanation

[7] Please read Revelation 12

[8] This is the truth revealed in the Book of The Revelation