The Final Countdown

10th Sign The Jewish People

1st Prophecy Return to the Land

Open your Bibles to: Isaiah 43:1-6

2nd Prophecy Become a Nation Again

Isaiah 11:11-12 “In that day the Lord will bring back a remnant of His people for the second time…

returning them to the land of Israel from Assyria, Lower Egypt, Upper Egypt, Ethiopia, Elam, Babylonia, Hamath, and all the distant coastlands…

He will raise a flag among the nations for Israel to rally around He will raise a flag among the nations for Israel to rally around. He will gather the scattered people of Judah from the ends of the earth.”

3rd Prophecy Brought Forth in One Day

Isaiah 66:8 “Who has ever seen or heard of anything as strange as this

Has a nation ever been born in a single day Has a nation ever been born in a single day? Has a country ever come forth in a mere moment?...

But by the time Jerusalem’s birth pains begin, the baby will be born; the nation will come forth.”

4th Prophecy Become United Nation Again

Ezekiel 37:21-22 “And give them this message from the Sovereign LORD: I will gather the people of Israel from among the nations…

I will bring them home to their own land from the places where they have been scattered…

I will unify them into one nation in the land I will unify them into one nation in the land. One king will rule them all; no longer will they be divided into two nations.”

5th Prophecy Currency Will Be the Shekel

Ezekiel 45:12,13,16 “The standard unit for weight will be the silver shekel. This is the tax you must give to the prince…

All the people of Israel must join the prince in bringing their offerings.”

6th Prophecy Blossom as a Rose in Desert

Isaiah 35:1-2 “Even the wilderness will rejoice in those days Isaiah 35:1-2 “Even the wilderness will rejoice in those days. The desert will blossom with flowers…

Yes, there will be an abundance of flowers and singing and joy!...

The deserts will become as green as the mountains of Lebanon, as lovely as Mount Carmel’s pastures and the plain of Sharon…

There the LORD will display His glory, the splendor of our God.”

Israel a Barren Wasteland In 1845 Alfon Lamartine said in his book, Recollections from the East, “Outside the walls of Jerusalem we saw no living being, heard no living voice…

Israel a Barren Wasteland We encountered that desolation and that deadly silence which we would have expected to find at the ruined gates of Pompey…

Israel a Barren Wasteland A total eternal dread spell envelopes the city, the highways and the villages.”

Israel a Barren Wasteland When Mark Twain visited Israel in the 1860’s, he reported that Israel was a barren wasteland with no trees. He went on to state…

Israel a Barren Wasteland “The further we went the hotter the sun got and the more rocky and bare. Repulsive and dreary the landscape became.”

Israel a Barren Wasteland In describing the territory around the Sea of Galilee, he called it a, “blistering, naked, treeless land.”

Israel a Barren Wasteland He spoke of the villages as, “ugly, cramped, squalid, uncomfortable and filthy.” He added that they are, “a solitude to make one dreary, unpeopled deserts, rusty mounds of barrenness.”

Israel a Barren Wasteland And then he looked towards the barren Judean hills and wrote “Close to us was a stream and on its banks a great heard of curious looking Syrian sheep and the sheep were gratefully eating gravel…

Israel a Barren Wasteland I do not state this as a petrified fact – I only suppose they were eating gravel because there did not appear to be anything else for them to eat.”

Israel a Barren Wasteland Then in 1905, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands Abraham Kuyper observed, “The Jews have come in vain. Only God can check the blight of the inrushing desert.”

7th Prophecy Have Powerful Military

Zechariah 12:6 “On that day I will make the leaders of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among sheaves…

They will consume right and left all the surrounding peoples, but Jerusalem will remain intact in her place.”

8th Prophecy Be a Center of World Conflict

Zechariah 12:2-3 “I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling…

Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her…

I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves.”

1 Thessalonians 5:1-3 “Now, brothers, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night

While people are saying, ‘Peace and safety,’ destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.”

Luke 21:28 “When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”