He Came and He Is Coming Again
Lea Sylvester
Israel is not
necessarily the sign of the end-time, but
what God has done and is doing in Israel and
the nations are the signs we need to
consider. God has a set time to deal with
every person, place, and thing. Israel's
time is now. Your time came when you were
enlightened by the Gospel of Jesus Christ
and forewarned of the coming Judgment, but
many have not heeded the call of repentance.
God has made
a way for all to escapse the wrath that is
coming to a rebellious world and to stand
before the Son of Man, some refer to Him as
Jesus Christ, but His name is Yeshua; in
righteousness. We are either with Him or
against Him: there is no middle of the road.
One is either a believer dedicated to the
things of the Lord or an unrepentant
unbeliever with a complacent or hardened
attitude.
“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and
pray, and seek my face, and turn from their
wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin, and will heal
their land.”
II
Chronicles 7:14
“For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto
you, and how ye turned to God from idols to
serve the living and true God; And to wait
for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from
the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us
from the wrath to come.”
I Thessalonians 1:9-10
“How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at first
began to be spoken by the Lord (Yeshua), and
was confirmed unto us by them that heard
him;”
Hebrews 2:3
“And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse, and he that sat upon
him was called Faithful and True, and in
righteousness he doth judge and make war.
His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his
head were many crowns, and he had a name
written, that no man knew, but he himself.
And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in
blood; and his name is called The Word of
God. And the armies which were in heaven
followed him upon white horses, clothed in
fine linen, white and clean. And out of his
mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he
should smite the nations: and he shall rule
them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the
winepress of the fierceness and wrath of
Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and
on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS,
AND LORD OF LORDS.”
Revelation 19:11-16
The fine
linen is a representation of the
righteousness of the saints of God who have
washed their garments in the blood of the
Lamb. Angels are among this group because
they have not sinned and do not need to be
cleansed by the redeeming blood of the Lamb.
So, we must deduce that these who follow the
Lamb on the white horses out of heaven are
the resurrected and raptured saints of the
ages.
“And to her [the bride of the Messiah] was granted that she should be
arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for
the fine linen is the righteousness of
saints.”
Revelation 19:8
God has a set
time to gather Israel to their rightful land
and to judge the nations for their treatment
of Israel. The Word of God tells us that the
glory of the latter house of Israel will be
greater than the former.
“For thus saith the Lord of hosts: Yet once, it is a little while, and I
will shake the heavens, and the earth, and
the sea, and the dry land; And I will shake
all nations, and the desire of all nations
shall come: and I will fill this house with
glory, saith the Lord of hosts. The silver
is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the
Lord of hosts. The glory of this latter
house shall be greater than the former,
saith the Lord of hosts: and in this place
will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts.”
Haggai 2:6-9
We can see by
these Scriptures that the best is yet to
come. Issac will have the last laugh of joy.
The regathering of the whole house of Israel
is picking up momentum as we approach the
coming of the Lord. The sings are becoming
more evident as some of the lost tribes of
the house of Israel are rediscovering
themselves through genealogical research and
responding to the move of the Holy Spirit in
the hearts of God's scattered people. Many
of these people are joining themselves to
messianic congregations throughout the
world. Many Gentile believers who have taken
a tour in Israel tell of the same experience
when getting off the plane; they feel as if
they have come home.
God has a
natural, earthly people and a spiritual
heavenly people. The heavenly people are
those who have washed their robes in the
blood of the Lamb of God, Jesus or Yeshua
ha'Mashiach.
The earthly
people are the remaining house of Israel and
the nations who survive the time of Jacob's
trouble (tribulation), and enter into the
one-thousand year reign of the Messiah and
the believers. He will sit on the throne and
rule from Jerusalem.
Before God
does anything He will reveal it to His
people who are spiritually in tune with Him.
We are not the children of darkness, but the
children of light.
“I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand,
and will keep thee, and give thee for a
covenant of the people, for a light of the
Gentiles. To open the blind eyes, to bring
out the prisoners from the prison, and them
that sit in darkness out of the prison
house. I am the LORD: that is my name: and
my glory will I not give to another, neither
my praise to graven images. Behold, the
former things are come to pass, and new
things do I declare before they spring forth
I tell you of them. Sing unto the LORD a new
song, and his praise from the end of the
earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all
that is therein; the isles and the
inhabitations thereof.”
Isaiah 42:6-10
“Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into
all truth; for he shall not speak of
himself, but whatsoever he shall hear; that
shall he speak: and he will shew you things
to come.”
John
16:13
In Isaiah
42:9, the Lord said “Before they spring
forth I will tell you. In John 16:13, the
Lord said the Spirit of Truth (the Holy
Spirit) would show us things to come. And in
I Thessalonians 5:4, the Word tells us that
day shall not overtake us as a thief.
The
prophecies of the Lord will be fulfilled as
predicted. To understand prophecy, one must
understand the Feasts (Appointments) of the
Lord. The Hebrew word for “feast” is mo'aid,
which means “appointment.”
These two
insights concerning prophecy need to be
considered at this time.
“O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou has fallen by thine
iniquity.”
Hosea
14:1
This was a
command for Israel to return to the Lord,
but this would not happen until they
returned to the promised land of Israel. On
May 14, 1948, the United Nations recognized
Israel as a sovereign nation and Israel
experienced a rebirth. Israel had been
exiled from their land by the Romans since
A.D. 70. Since Israel became a nation,
multitudes of Jews have received Jesus
Christ as the promised Messiah.
The other
prophecy is located in Zephaniah.
“At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you:
for I will make you a name and a praise
among all people of the earth, when I turn
back your captivity before your eyes, saith
the Lord.”
Zephaniah 3:20
Putting the
Truth first in one's life is putting Jesus
Christ in the forefront of all of our
doings. The Scripture says, “You shall know
the truth and the truth shall make you
free.” (John 8:32). Jesus Christ is the
Truth, the Way, and the Life. There are no
exceptions to this statement. Many, because
of their pride or deception, have tried to
climb the ladder to heaven in good deeds,
but Jesus Christ came to give life (through
Him).
“Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other name
under heaven given among men, whereby we
must be saved.”
Acts
4:12
Salvation
awaits all who call upon the name of the
Lord. If there were another way, the
sacrifice of Jesus Christ (who is the
Messiah) would not have been necessary. God
chose the best and only way to salvation,
which is faith in the atoning blood of Jesus
Christ. Did not the children of Israel rely
on the sacrifice of animals every year on
the Feast of Yom Kippur, when the high
priest took the blood of the lamb into the
Holy of Holies to atone for all Israel's
sins from the previous year. Since this
ritual---relying on animals for temporary
atonement---was a picture of the atoning
blood of the Lamb of God, how much more can
the blood of the Son of God provide for our
complete and final atonement? Jesus Christ
did not save us to lose us, but to keep us.
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