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Israel and the End Times

Pr Peter Tsukahira
14-07-2018

Two great prophetic fulfillments:

Matthew 23:37-39 New King James Version (NKJV)
Jesus Laments over Jerusalem
37 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! 38 See! Your house is left to you desolate; 39 for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ”



The destruction of Jerusalem happened in 70A.D.

Jesus knew 40 years after His crucifixion and His resurrection that Jerusalem and the temple would be destroyed.

Jesus' prophecies are amazingly accurate.

He also prophesied about the scattering of the Jewish people... until our time.

2,000 years later, the people of Israel have been restored to their land. There is now a Messianic remnant rising up in the land.

We are the witnesses of this great event.

There will be a Messianic Jerusalem by the time Jesus returns.

Romans 11:26 New King James Version (NKJV)
26 And so all Israel will be saved,[a] as it is written:

“The Deliverer will come out of Zion,
And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;

Israel is a key.

Israel is God's end time clock.

Israel is one hand of the clock.

The other hand is the hand of the nations.

There is still a lot of work to be done.

Matthew 24:6-8 New King James Version (NKJV)
6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all[a] these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences,[b] and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Don't focus on the next crisis.

Look beyond them.

The kingdom of God is coming to earth with power.

Matthew 24:14 New King James Version (NKJV)
14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.

It is a nation transforming truth that goes out to to roots of culture that bring transformation and change.

Spirit empowered witnesses that take to the roots of culture.

This must take place before His return.

And then the end will come.

The kingdom of God has to be witnessed in all nations.

Thank God for our older brother Israel.

We learned so much about them in them.

The gospel of the Kingdom began in Israel.

Paul's 2nd Missionary Journey:
Acts 16:6-10 New King James Version (NKJV)
The Macedonian Call
6 Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in [a]Asia. 7 After they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the [b]Spirit did not permit them. 8 So passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas. 9 And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him, saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” 10 Now after he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them.

Israel is West Asia.

In his vision, Paul, the Asian apostle, saw an European man.

In Paul's lifetime, the gospel of the Kingdom saturated the Greek speaking world.

The first New Testaments were written in the Greek language.

The expansion of the gospel was west.

Romans 15:24 New King James Version (NKJV)
24 whenever I journey to Spain, [a]I shall come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I may enjoy your company for a while.

"All roads lead to Rome."

Eventually the Romans were conquered by the barbarians (the British, French, Austrians, Spanish).

The gospel of the Kingdom came to the pagan tribal Europe and changed everything it touched. It took a long time. It took centuries.

In the end, a Christian culture and a Christian civilisation began to emerge.

It went to the roots of their culture.

They took a foreigner from the Middle East and made Him their own. They made Him European!

After a while, God showed up in Europe.

How blessed is the people who God is the Lord.

Their nations began to rise up in power and abilities, for better or for worse.

The secret of European greatness in its day is in Acts where they took the gospel west.

Eventually Europe became too civilised and they went west.

1620 - Pilgrims sail to America.

102 Christian pilgrims and settlers landed in Massachusetts. After that tens of thousands followed them.

They began to build Bible colleges. The first three were Harvard, Princeton and Yale.

After a while God showed up in North America.

God gave a land that was rich in resources. He gave them science and technology and inventiveness.

The secret to America's success is in Acts 16 to take the values and cultures of the gospel west.

What's happening in America today? Spiritual crisis. They have taken prayers out of schools and taken the bibles out of the courtrooms.

The gospel of the Kingdom is still going west.

In our lifetime, the gospel of the Kingdom is hitting East Asia like a tidal wave.

"Christ has risen" over China. (Post magazine)

"Jesus of Nazareth now has more followers on the mainland." (South China Morning Post)

10/40 Window of least evangelised nations.

We are the generation that is looking at the end.

We are at the edge of the wave.

We are the fathers and mothers seeing that turn, take place in real time.

You are at the beginning of the greatest change in your region.

Catch the wave of God's purposes.

God is moving with great power in your generation and in your time.

In the church building is where you are equipped to serve.

Send your young people out where their gift and calling is found in society.

God is going to show up in South East Asia.

God is going to make you the head and not the tail.

We are looking at the finish line.

Israel is the finish line.

Keep one eye on Israel and one eye on the nations.

Believe God for the impossible.

We want to see God's kingdom come and His will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

According to the Book of Revelation, this is the Kingdom that will rule over all kingdoms.

This power is in the wave.

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