A. 3b,§12
Boek Openbaring §12, Geestelijke Oorlog: Vrouw van drie Koninkrijken
Shalom!
^ With Gentile believers God has had personal contacts. However, with the Jewish people His contact has been in addition with the entire people. Likewise, this people and their country have served as God's watch for the whole world.
The birth of the state of Israel (‘fig tree’) in 1948 {and the birth of many other states (‘trees’)} has shown that we live very close to the secret Presence of the Lord Jesus on the clouds (Mat. 24:32-44 and Luke 21:29-33), Luke 21:32, <Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all things take place.>
With prayer of the saints, Bert
¤ In the beginning God’s people of twelve tribes represented the Woman as seen in heaven (3a§12, Rev. 12:1).
And halfway it should have continued to become the Bride of the Lord Jesus (Mat. 22:1-14).
¤ But many things went wrong. Firstly, because of the idolatry of king Solomon and his wives, God tore this kingdom in two. Ten tribes were taken away (1Ki. 11:29-39).
Later, because of additional fornication, God let the kingdom of the 10 tribes be crushed (Hos. 1:1-9).
¤ Regrettably, the remaining two tribes’ kingdom of Judah also opposed God, in demanding the crucifixion of His Son. That is why He divorced from that too (Mat. 21:33-46; 27:23).
Only a small number of the Jews had noticed and followed the Messiah, promised to them (e.g. John 1:41).
¤ After the last separation, God turned away from the Jewish people to look for a new Bride to His Son [kingdom/people, Luke 17:21], 1Pet. 2:9-10, <But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, …. 10. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.>
When from all peoples all over the world the last believer has been saved and God has taken all of them up in the first resurrection, a same kind of revival of the people of the 12 tribes will start in the greater tribulation time period (Rev. 20:5), Rm. 11:25b-27, <A hardening in part has come to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. 26. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come from Zion; He will remove godlessness from Jacob. 27. And this is My covenant with them when I take away their sins.”>
¤ First, 144,000, 12,000 of twelve tribes, comes to faith {Rev. 7:4-8 (7bc§67₁14)}.
They are the firstfruits of the Jewish people {Rev. 14:(1-) 4 (-5)}.
¤ Since the crushing of the ten-tribe-people, many of their descendants have always lived among the Jewish people. In the same way, nowadays God is uniting the two peoples, two kingdoms, again into one kingdom {Ezek. 37:15-28 (11b§19-22)}.
Too, from everywhere groups and people, for whom Israel and its God are important, are returning to Israel.
¤ Next, at the end of the greater tribulation time, all the rest of the Jews in Israel will meet their God. A sanctified one-third of the two-tribe-people of two thousand years ago {Zec. 13:6-9 and Mat. 26:31 (7d§67₁14)}.
In the same way, in the coming New Jerusalem, there will be 12 representative tribes of the people of Israel (Rev. 21:12-13).
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