The Jews won't be staying in Israel the entire 7 years during the tribulation as they will flee at the mid point during the AoD and be scattered everywhere except in Israel. That means the longest they can burn weapons while in Israel would be 3 1/2 years only during the first half. Has this crossed your mind?
Well part of them will flee in time. But some of them won't, and the remainers are in Revelation 12:17. And there have to be Jews in Jerusalem, in Zechariah 14, when Jesus returns.
The issue becomes why doesn't Satan just have the beast wipe them all out who he has access to? imo, it is because Satan uses them as hostages.
When Satan and his angels get cast down in the middle of the 7 years in Revelation 12:7-9, he knows that he has but a short time left in Revelation 12:12, as God begins dismantling his kingdom, Babylon the Great.
So Satan is going to take steps in an attempt to keep from being destroyed.
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Speaking about Satan in these verses...
Ezekiel 28:17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness:
I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick;
therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
19 All they that know thee among t
he people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and
never shalt thou be any more.
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Well, how's all that going to happen?
Here's my view.
As God begins dismantling Satan kingdom, Satan gets cast down to earth in Revelation 12:7-9.
Satan, immediately, incarnates the image of the beast, making it appear to come to life, a lying wonder, so everyone worships him or else.
When Jesus returns, and stands on the mount of olives directly across the Kidron valley - the beast, the false prophet, and the statue image of the beast are on the temple mount, surrounded by the armies of the world and their leaders.
The beast and false prophet are first to be dwelt with and will be cast alive into the lake of fire.
Then the outer facade of the statue will be melted away in flames - there will be Satan for all to see. Them there to see it, the armies and their leaders, will be astonished.
Then Jesus speaks judgment on them gathered to make war on him, and they die.
Then a lone angel descends binds Satan in chains and he is taken to the bottomless pit for the thousand years.