Part 1 of 6 – Israel ~ God's Prophetic Timeclock

Equipping God's Saints (Followers of Christ) through the Prophecies of the End Times …

Our subject is Israel ~ God's Prophetic Time Clock. Believe it or not, God does have a time clock.

The prophecy we're going to be looking at is a prophecy with a date on it. Most prophecies don't have a date, but this one does. The minute you see the prophecy called the Confirmation of the Covenant come to pass, you'll know that we are seven years from the Battle of Armageddon and seven years from the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. That's what is so outstanding about this particular prophecy and so important. Without understanding this prophecy, we won't really be able to perceive God's time clock for the time we live in right now.

In our last lesson we studied the history of the nation of Israel and learned why the land called Israel became the Promised Land. We learned about the father of the nation of Israel, Abraham; the God-ordained borders of the Promised Land. We saw in scripture where God placed His Name on the Temple Mount, that place called Mount Moriah. We learned about the First Temple, it's destruction in 586 BC, and then Israel's first Exile of 70 years. We also learned about the Second Temple, it's destruction in 70 AD and Israel's Second Exile of 1,878 years.

The nation of Israel was finally reborn, like it is prophesied in the Bible, on May 14, 1948. And then, finally, the Temple Mount was reclaimed by Israel in the 1967 Six Days War.

We want to take a moment right now to talk about this very important event called the Six Days War. It was stunning. Israel defeated all of her enemies in six short days. Israel captured the Sinai Desert in the south from Egypt, the Golan Heights in the north from Syria and the Biblical area of Judea, Samaria, from Jordan, including the entire city of Jerusalem. All of these territories were a part of the Biblical Promised Land. The crowning event was the capture of the city of Jerusalem, and in particular, the Temple Mount where Almight God said 37 times in the Old Testament, “I will put My Name there.”

Remember, this was the place where Abraham raised the knife over Isaac. This is the place where God told David, “You go buy the threshing floor of Araunah.”

Now they are back to this Temple Mount where the First Temple stood, where the Second Temple stood, and where the Bible says the Third Temple will soon stand.

When the Israeli soldiers finally made it up onto the Temple Mount, the Arabs ran for their lives. That's when the guns fell silent. The people, the soldiers that had been killing one minute, all of a sudden, the tears began to roll down their faces. They were all weeping like babies. Here they were back to the place where God said, I will put My Name there.” The site of the First Temple; the Second Temple. Here they were. Many understood it was the Day of Redemption.

The amazing thing was that not only did the people who believed in God and the Bible weep, but there were young soldiers there who were raised on the Kibbutz. They'd been taught Marxism. They'd been taught Atheism. That there was no God. That the Bible is a myth. But they were weeping. So why were they weeping? This place means nothing to them. The reply was, “We don't know why we're weeping. We can't help it. There's an awesome feeling here right now.”

It was an amazing day because it was part of the fulfillment of God's promise to the people of Israel. The world watched this stunning victory in awe and when the announcement went around the world, “The Temple Mount is in our hands,” even Kings and Presidents instinctively knew they were witnessing an event of Biblical proportions.

There is one more thing that happened that night. Mr. Shlomo Goren was the Chief Rabbi of the Israel Defenses and he was there when the Temple Mount was taken. The commanding General was General Uzi. Rabbi Goren turned to General Uzi and said, “Now's our time. Take this dynamite. Blow up the Dome of the Rock. Blow up the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Purge this holy place of the heathen shrines.”

General Uzi said, “Rabbi, enough.”

But Shlomo Goren was not to be deterred. He said, “You'll go down in history if you'll do it. This is the moment of redemption.”

General Uzi said, “If you don't stop, I'll take you to jail.”

Rabbi Goren bowed his head and walked away silently. It was an opportunity missed. Many people believed that if Israel would have removed the Dome of the Rock, the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and immediately began building their Temple, the Messiah would have shown up right then. But it was not to be.

Resources: The anointing of the Holy Spirit and God Almighty, who I am accountable to. I have prayed diligently and am led to follow and support the teachings of Pastor Irvin Baxter from Endtime Ministries and his teachings of Understanding the End Times. I encourage you to visit his website at endtime.com.