Acts 1:6-12 Then they gathered around him & asked him, “Lord, are you AT THIS TIME going to RESTORE the kingdom TO Israel?”
7He said to them: “IT IS NOT FOR YOU TO KNOW THE TIMES OR DATES THE FATHER HAS SET BY HIS OWN AUTHORITY.
8But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you & you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem & in all Judea & Samaria & to the ends of the earth.”
9After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes & a cloud hid him from their sight.
10They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them.
11“Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, WILL COME BACK IN THE SAME WAY YOU HAVE SEEN HIM GO INTO HEAVEN.”
Then the apostles returned to Jerusalem from the hill called THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, a Sabbath day’s walk from the city.
Acts 3:21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
Zechariah 14:1-9 Behold, the day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided in your presence.
2For I will gather all the nations for battle against Jerusalem & the city will be captured, the houses looted & the women ravished. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.
3Then the LORD will go out to fight against those nations, as He fights in the day of battle.
4ON THAT DAY HIS FEET WILL STAND ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, EAST OF JERUSALEM & the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half the mountain moving to the north & half to the south.
5You will flee by My mountain valley, for it will extend to Azal. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come & ALL THE HOLY ONES WITH HIM.
6On that day there will be no light, no cold or frost.
7IT WILL BE A DAY KNOWN ONLY TO YHWH, without day or night; but when evening comes, there will be light.
8And on that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it toward the eastern sea
a and the other half toward the western sea,
b in summer and winter alike.
9ON THAT DAY THE LORD WILL BECOME KING OVER ALL THE EARTH, THE LORD ALONE & HIS NAME ALONE.
Zechariah 14:16 Once God’s Kingdom is established in Jerusalem among the people of Israel, Christ will ask representatives of all nations to come to Jerusalem to learn about His laws. He will summon them to Jerusalem to attend God’s annual Feast of Tabernacles: “And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts &to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.”
Ezek 11:23 And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city & stood on the mountain that is on the east side of the city.
Ezek 43:2 And I saw the glory of the God of Israel coming from the east. His voice was like the roar of many waters & the earth shone with His glory.
Micah 1:3,4 For behold, the LORD comes forth out of His dwelling place; He will come down & tread on the high places of the earth. The mountains will melt beneath Him & the valleys will split apart, like wax before the fire, like water cascading down a slope.
Zechariah 4:7 What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain. Then he will bring forth THE CAPSTONE ACCOMPANIED BY SHOUTS OF 'GRACE, GRACE TO IT!'"
Psalm 96:13 For He is coming--He is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness & the peoples in His faithfulness.
Psalm 98:9 Before the LORD, for He comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.
Psalm 110:6 He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead; He will crush the leaders far & wide.
Isaiah 2:4 Then He will judge between the nations & arbitrate for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor train anymore for war.
Joel 3:2 I will gather all the nations & bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning MY PEOPLE, MY INHERITANCE, ISRAEL, whom they have scattered among the nations AS THEY DIVIDED UP MY LAND.
Rev 20:6 “Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but
they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall
reign with Him a thousand years.”
Dan 7:27 “Then the kingdom & dominion & the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people, the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom & all dominions shall serve & obey Him.”
Jer 23:5,6 “The days are surely coming, says the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch & he shall reign as king & deal wisely & shall execute justice & righteousness IN THE LAND. In his days Judah will be saved & Israel will live in safety.”
Ezek 37:21,22 “Surely I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, wherever they have gone & will gather them from every side & bring them into their own land & I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel & one king shall be king over them all; they shall no longer be two nations, nor shall they ever be divided into two kingdoms again.”
Jer 33:6-9 “Behold … I will heal them & reveal to them the abundance of peace & truth. And I will cause the captives of Judah & the captives of Israel to return, & will rebuild those places as at the first. I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against Me & I will pardon all their iniquities … Then [Jerusalem] shall be to Me a name of joy, a praise & an honor before all nations of the earth, who shall hear all the good that I do to them; they shall fear & tremble for all the goodness & all the prosperity that I provide for it.”
Micah 4:2 “Many nations shall come & say, ‘Come & let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways & we shall walk in His paths.’ For out of Zion the law shall go forth & the word of the LORD from Jerusalem ”
Luke 24:25 Then Jesus said to them, “O foolish ones, how slow are your hearts to believe all that the prophets have spoken."
Luke 24:44,45 Jesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets & the Psalms.” Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.