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I accept the fact that the majority of the believing churches are covenant amillenialists and do not recognize that god has a future plan to grant Israel a kingdom from which they rule in their own land with Christ as head for 1,000 years.
They have allegorized the specific prophecies and given them a spiritual application to the church. However even their own covenant amillenial theologians like Cox, Allis Hokema and Boettner have gone on record to say that if one is to take these prophecies as literal, then the dispensational view is the valid view ( I paraphrase)
Well:
Isaiah 29:14
Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
Behold the prophecies that have been fuflilled literally and reconsider whether amillenial thought is what you should keep.
The order of Israel's return to the land
History has shown that the Jews returned to the land in the following order: the East first, then the West, followed by the North, and finally the South. The Jews first returned from the Middle East (Syria, Iraq, Jordan 1930-1940), then Western Europe after WWII, then Russia starting in 1988, and finally Ethiopia (Operation Solomon, Summer, 1991)...
Isaiah 43:5-6 - Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your descendants from the east, and gather you from the west; I will say to the north, 'Give them up!' And to the south, 'Do not keep them back!' Bring My sons from afar, and My daughters from the ends of the earth--
The miracle of Israel's return to the land.
Jeremiah 16:14-15 - "Therefore behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "that it shall no more be said, `The LORD lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,' but, `The LORD lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where He had driven them.' For I will bring them back into their land which I gave to their fathers.
Renewal of Hebrew language contrary to world trends
There are fewer languages in the world than there once were. Languages and dialects are consolidating as the world seeks to work together more. During the dispersion of Israel, Hebrew as a spoken language was all but lost except for Biblical scholars. During the Diaspora, pure Hebrew had become mixed with German (Yiddish) and with Spanish (Ladino). Zephania Elineazer Ben Yahoda dedicated his life to the pure Hebrew language inventing thousands of new words based on Hebrew root words. Now it is the language that binds Israelis together despite their coming from different nations. Israelis now can read original Biblical scrolls without translation. In 1982 Hebrew became the official language of Israel...
Zephaniah 3:8-9 - Therefore wait for Me," says the LORD, "Until the day I rise up for plunder; my determination is to gather the nations to My assembly of kingdoms, to pour on them My indignation, all my fierce anger; all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of My jealousy. For then I will restore to the peoples a pure language, that they all may call on the name of the LORD, to serve Him with one accord.
Jews will return to a land called Israel
Ezekiel 37:12 - "Therefore prophesy and say to them, `Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, O My people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up from your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel."
Israel's rebirth as a nation
Israel was born as a nation in a single day, May 14, 1948. They immediately had travail in the form of war with their Arab neighbors...
Isaiah 66:7-8 - "Before she was in labor, she gave birth; before her pain came, she delivered a male child. Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall the earth be made to give birth in one day? Or shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion was in labor, she gave birth to her children."
The last days government of Israel will be a democracy
Zechariah 12:5 - And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, 'The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in the LORD of hosts, their God.'
The shekel will be re-established as currency
Israel will pay their taxes in shekels...
Ezekiel 45:12-16 - "The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your mina. This is the offering which you shall offer: you shall give one-sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat, and one-sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley. The ordinance concerning oil, the bath of oil, is one-tenth of a bath from a kor. A kor is a homer or ten baths, for ten baths are a homer. And one lamb shall be given from a flock of two hundred, from the rich pastures of Israel. These shall be for grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement for them," says the Lord GOD. All the people of the land shall give this offering for the prince in Israel
Israel's military power will be without peer in the end times
Zechariah 12:6 - In that day I will make the governors of Judah like a firepan in the woodpile, and like a fiery torch in the sheaves; they shall devour all the surrounding peoples on the right hand and on the left, but Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place-- Jerusalem.
End Part One.
They have allegorized the specific prophecies and given them a spiritual application to the church. However even their own covenant amillenial theologians like Cox, Allis Hokema and Boettner have gone on record to say that if one is to take these prophecies as literal, then the dispensational view is the valid view ( I paraphrase)
Well:
Isaiah 29:14
Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
Behold the prophecies that have been fuflilled literally and reconsider whether amillenial thought is what you should keep.
The order of Israel's return to the land
History has shown that the Jews returned to the land in the following order: the East first, then the West, followed by the North, and finally the South. The Jews first returned from the Middle East (Syria, Iraq, Jordan 1930-1940), then Western Europe after WWII, then Russia starting in 1988, and finally Ethiopia (Operation Solomon, Summer, 1991)...
Isaiah 43:5-6 - Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your descendants from the east, and gather you from the west; I will say to the north, 'Give them up!' And to the south, 'Do not keep them back!' Bring My sons from afar, and My daughters from the ends of the earth--
The miracle of Israel's return to the land.
Jeremiah 16:14-15 - "Therefore behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "that it shall no more be said, `The LORD lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,' but, `The LORD lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where He had driven them.' For I will bring them back into their land which I gave to their fathers.
Renewal of Hebrew language contrary to world trends
There are fewer languages in the world than there once were. Languages and dialects are consolidating as the world seeks to work together more. During the dispersion of Israel, Hebrew as a spoken language was all but lost except for Biblical scholars. During the Diaspora, pure Hebrew had become mixed with German (Yiddish) and with Spanish (Ladino). Zephania Elineazer Ben Yahoda dedicated his life to the pure Hebrew language inventing thousands of new words based on Hebrew root words. Now it is the language that binds Israelis together despite their coming from different nations. Israelis now can read original Biblical scrolls without translation. In 1982 Hebrew became the official language of Israel...
Zephaniah 3:8-9 - Therefore wait for Me," says the LORD, "Until the day I rise up for plunder; my determination is to gather the nations to My assembly of kingdoms, to pour on them My indignation, all my fierce anger; all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of My jealousy. For then I will restore to the peoples a pure language, that they all may call on the name of the LORD, to serve Him with one accord.
Jews will return to a land called Israel
Ezekiel 37:12 - "Therefore prophesy and say to them, `Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, O My people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up from your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel."
Israel's rebirth as a nation
Israel was born as a nation in a single day, May 14, 1948. They immediately had travail in the form of war with their Arab neighbors...
Isaiah 66:7-8 - "Before she was in labor, she gave birth; before her pain came, she delivered a male child. Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall the earth be made to give birth in one day? Or shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion was in labor, she gave birth to her children."
The last days government of Israel will be a democracy
Zechariah 12:5 - And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, 'The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in the LORD of hosts, their God.'
The shekel will be re-established as currency
Israel will pay their taxes in shekels...
Ezekiel 45:12-16 - "The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your mina. This is the offering which you shall offer: you shall give one-sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat, and one-sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley. The ordinance concerning oil, the bath of oil, is one-tenth of a bath from a kor. A kor is a homer or ten baths, for ten baths are a homer. And one lamb shall be given from a flock of two hundred, from the rich pastures of Israel. These shall be for grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement for them," says the Lord GOD. All the people of the land shall give this offering for the prince in Israel
Israel's military power will be without peer in the end times
Zechariah 12:6 - In that day I will make the governors of Judah like a firepan in the woodpile, and like a fiery torch in the sheaves; they shall devour all the surrounding peoples on the right hand and on the left, but Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place-- Jerusalem.
End Part One.