The End-time Prophetic Timeline 2

In 1948, the restoration of Israel began. The country received the favor of God that had been prophesied extensively in the prophetic books. The country became an agriculture stronghold despite being in the desert, thus fulfilling Isaiah 44:3 prophecy, “For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the land, and streams on dry ground.” All prophecies about the restoration of God's Holy Mountain of Zion begin to converge. But of all these events, perhaps none was more significant to the Gentile dispensation than the six-day war in 1967, in which Israel defeated a coalition of Arab countries at war in less than a week, thus reclaiming Jerusalem as a Jewish city. The reclamation of Jerusalem from the Gentiles was the greatest indicator yet, that the time of the Gentiles is close to being fulfilled. When prophesying about the destruction of the temple, did Jesus talk about the relationship between Jerusalem and the times of the Gentiles? .

Luke 21:24 They will fall by the edge of the edge of the sword and be led captive among the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Isaiah 45: 4 For the sake of Jacob my servant, of Israel my chosen, I summon you by name and bestow on you a title of honor, though you do not acknowledge me.

On January 20, 2017, another rather controversial president is inaugurated into office. His vice president, Mike Pence, is an open born again Christian. Unlike his predecessor who greatly championed for the liberal ideals in societal issues, this president holds more conservative views on many aspects such as abortion, gender identity, sexuality, and immigration. He is an enemy of political correctness, arguably a bigger enemy than President Harry S. Truman who became famous for consistently breaking the fourth wall. He seems to worry very little about what he says, thus making him even more unpopular among the liberals who make up a large portion of the Democratic Party electorate. He turns "the tweet" into an official means of communication and crosses lines that no other president dared to. But amid the uproar, he slowly turns into King Cyrus yet again (Isaiah 45.4). Following President Truman's footsteps, he does what no other American President wanted to do, he recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's Capital City on 6th December 2018, when Israel is exactly 70 years old, thus fulfilling Zechariah's prophesy that God will choose Zion once again after 70 years. Because of this, the presidential candidate who looked least like a conventional Christian gains a huge following within the conservative American Christian community.

On May 14th, 2018, eight months prior President Trump's prophetic act, the nation of Israel turned 70, thus entering a period extensively talked about by Old Testament prophets, among them, Daniel and Zechariah. Undoubtedly, we are now well into a very interesting part of the seasons set by the father at the foundation of the Earth. The prophets are screaming, the spiritual realm is shifting. The Lord's focus is shifting towards Zion once again.

Zechariah 1:12-16 12 Then the Angel of the Lord answered and said, “O Lord of hosts, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which You were angry these seventy years?” 13 And the Lord answered the angel who talked to me, with good and comforting words.14 So the angel who spoke with me said to me, [b] "Proclaim, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: "I am zealous[c] for Jerusalem, And for Zion with great [d]zeal.15 I am exceedingly angry with the nations at ease; For I was a little angry, And they helped—but with evil intent. ”16‘Therefore thus says the Lord: "I am returning to Jerusalem with mercy; My house shall be built in it,” says the Lord of hosts, “And a surveyor’s line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.”

Daniel 9:24-25 (KJV) 24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. 25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

Despite the mercy of the Lord , most of Israel still was not perceptive of the move of God. In both Zechariah and Daniel's prophesies, God gives Jerusalem an atonement period of 70 years before its restoration begins which will culminate in the building of the Lord's Third temple in preparation for the Messiah (Zechariah 6.12). Indeed, in December 2018, President Trump made Jerusalem the Capital City of Israel thus initiating the fulfillment of these prophecies. Daniel's prophesy is multilayered, and part of it was already fulfilled after the building of the Second Temple, after the First Temple was destroyed during the Babylonian Invasion at the time of Jeremiah, in preparation for the first coming of the Messiah. Daniel talks about part of this rebuilding occurring in a troublous time, a time which is prophesied to occur before the glorious Second coming of the Messiah in many other prophetic books, perhaps most evidently in John's Revelation

Lamentations 5.18 (KJV) Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

On 8th of August 2019, Jeremiah’s prophesy of foxes walking over the desolate Temple Mount is fulfilled. Immediately after this, calls to rebuild the Third Temple begin to intensify. On August 15th, 2019, one week later, a heifer is burnt in preparation for the building of the Third temple. It may take months before another blameless red heifer is found to complete these sacrificial preparations, but still, the desire is now more evident than ever. At some point soon, this temple will finally stand in place of the Al-Aqsa Mosque because the Biblical prophecy has to be fulfilled, but what will this mean to the dispensation of the Gentiles?

Romans 11:11 (NIV) Again I ask: Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious.

The fulfillment of the time of the Gentiles was purposed by God to draw Israel into Jealousy, and the ongoing reestablishment of the nation shows us that this time is near. But as long as a mosque is still standing at Temple Mount and Gentiles are still trampling upon the Holy Mountain, the dispensation of the Gentiles is still on. But it will surely end soon although many theologians differ on how this will happen. Verses such as Isaiah 26:19-20, 1st Thessalonians 4:15-17 and Revelation 3.10 suggesting that it will happen as the rapture of the faithful Gentile church. On 5th of July 2019, I had a vivid dream of this event happening, of random Christians who are right with God being pulled towards the sky in tremendous speed. But I would be running ahead of God by using my wisdom to guess exactly how and when this event will occur. One thing I know, however, is that in the subsequent letter to the Thessalonians, (2 Thessalonians:2); Paul outlines the series of events that happen before this event does, and among them is the rise of lawlessness, rebellion, and the great falling away of the church. Paul explains that God will send the children of lawlessness a strong delusion to believe a lie because they despised the truth (2 Thessalonians 2:11). The people who read Apostle Paul's letter in 100AD couldn't have foreseen this lawlessness coming in the form of a seemingly self-liberating sexual and gender liberty movement, could they? But nothing happens the way it is expected to happen. And so, by assuming that the story of God's fury towards Sodom and Gomorrah is a precept of the human mind, the world is slowly turning into what these cities were. And so, through the careful plan of the devil the world has finally embraced lawlessness in the eyes of God in complete ignorance. And before the fulfillment of the times of the Gentiles, the extents and depths of this lawlessness are only bound to increase.

We are undoubtedly in a very interesting season where God’s eyes are slowly shifting from the Gentiles to the Israelites. As residents of Jerusalem in 70 AD found out, such changes in dispensations are always accompanied by unbearable tribulation. Didn’t Zechariah prophesy that God would be angry at their nations for their ease with sin as He shifted His focus to Jerusalem? (Zechariah 1:15). Didn’t Daniel prophesy that the Third Temple will be built during a troublous time? (Daniel 9:25) Didn’t Isaiah talk about God’s fury against the Gentiles for their sin in the final days? (Isaiah 24) As did Jeremiah? (Jeremiah 46-51) Didn't Daniel talk about the final antichrist rising as a peacemaker during a troubled time only to cause more desolation three and a half years later? (Daniel 9:27). Didn’t Ezekiel prophesy that a convergence of nations led by Gog and Magog (present-day Russia) would rise against the restored Israel state and her allies during the tribulation time? (Ezekiel 38). Ever since Israel’s main ally, the US, walked out of the Iran nuclear deal under President Trump, haven’t there been tensions between the US and her main allies such as the UK and Israel, and Iran and her main allies such as Russia, China, and Turkey? On 21 st of June, didn’t the president call off an airstrike targeting Iran in the last minute, which could have easily opened a military Pandora’s Box, after being forewarned about 150 fatalities? Didn't these tensions escalate further following the assassination of General Soleimani at the beginning of 2020?

The convergence of prophecy is remarkable and anything can realistically happen at any moment. But it is in such moments where generations after generations fail by running ahead of God instead of looking at what is God is doing at the moment. Don't we know that He always works in the ways we expect least? Maybe the great falling away will not happen in the form of being forced to worship on specific days of the week, but rather because of the reluctance of the traditional church to accept a new move of God. Maybe the Antichrist won’t rise as a man stopping worship, but as a man shouting for peace and unity (Daniel 9:27). Maybe… maybe not... Predicting the events that will lead up to the end is futile; the Lord never reveals everything to anyone. He whispers information in small bits to those who walk intimately with Him, and this information is never comprehensive enough to get the entirety of the picture. He always wants you to go back to Him for more. And so all those use their wisdom to create the entire picture from the scanty information the Lord gives will ultimately be shamed. This is why every generation misses their current move of God. Instead of listening and seeing, they let their minds create a false picture which ultimately distracts them from the actual move of God. And that is why the Antichrist may be someone we all love, the prophets who warn us about him may be people we all dislike, and Satan’s final deception something that we may all fall for.

Revelation 11 :1-2 (RSV) 1Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told: “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, 2 but do not measure the court outside the temple;leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample over the holy city for forty-two months.

The certainty of these events can only be gauged using the Bible, and it is indeed written that tribulation will ensue as the time of the Gentiles draws to an end. During this chaos, the dispensation will finally change, the Lord’s mercy will fully settle in Zion and the Gentiles will flee to Jerusalem to escape persecution globally, (Zechariah 8:23, Revelation 11:2, Isaiah 4.1). The Outer Court of the Third Temple will be given to the Gentiles and the troops of the antichrist will rise against them. And when the armies of the world finally surround Jerusalem to destroy her yet again, the Messiah will do what the apostles expected Him to do two thousand years ago, arrive at the valley of Jehoshaphat in glory and destroy all the enemies of Jacob. He will restore the seat of David in Jerusalem and rule for 1000 years over the nations with His saints. Everything that is happening right now in Israel will lead up to this moment. In the not so distant future, in a day and hour that no one knows, this sequence of events will culminate. A sequence of events that is two thousand years late in the eyes of the residents of Jerusalem in 33AD, and two thousand years away in the eyes of the residents of New York City in this generation.