Then You Will Know that I Am the Lord | Bible Prophecy Blog

Image via WikipediaI may be offline for a few days. So I thought I would leave you all with some news they may or may not help clear some things up. I saw this post and though it was decent enough to share with you all. Know the signs of the times. Even if you don't agree. Some key points here are very good to know.
We live in a crazy world. Maybe its time we need to hope to go with it. That Hope is Jesus Christ.

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That Was Then, This Is Now

But beginning in Ezekiel 36, after Nebuchadnezzar had taken the Jews to Babylon and burned Jerusalem to the ground, the Lord began using the phrase in a different way. He said the restoration of Israel in the latter days would be the way He would show both Israel and the nations of our day that He is the Lord.

Although the Lord’s promise of restoration was partially fulfilled during the time between Israel’s return from Babylon and the Lord’s first coming, the language in chapters 36 and following make it clear Ezekiel was speaking of the time preceding the Second Coming. Here are some examples.

Speaking to the mountains of Israel, the Lord said.

“No longer will I make you hear the taunts of the nations, and no longer will you suffer the scorn of the peoples or cause your nation to fall, declares the Sovereign LORD” (Ezek. 36:15).

Obviously Israel fell to the Romans after their return from Babylon.

‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land. I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. There will be one king over all of them and they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms” (Ezekiel 37: 21-22).

During the time of their captivity the Jews were held in Babylon, and they were the ones who resettled the land afterward. There was no official regathering from all the nations as Ezekiel prophesied will take place after the Gog Magog battle (
Ezekiel 39:28
).


Also, prior to the first coming the promised land had been divided among various members of the Herod family and Rome. It was not a single entity with a single king.


Here’s How You Will Know

Each step along the way to Israel’s complete restoration is meant to be a sign to show both Israel and the nations that God is the Lord. Each of these signs is identified by some form of the phrase “You will know that I am the Lord” and there are ten of them.


In effect He was saying, “You will know that I am the Lord,

1. When I settle people in the land and they become fruitful and prosperous (Ezekiel 36:11)
2. When I show Myself holy through Israel before the eyes of the nations (Ezekiel 36:23)
3. When I have rebuilt what was destroyed and replanted what was desolate (Ezekiel 36:36)
4. When I fill the rebuilt cities with people (Ezekiel 36:38).
5. When I bring back to life a people long dead (Ezekiel 37:6)
6. When I open their graves and bring My people up from them (Ezekiel 37:13)
7. When I put My spirit in them and settle them in their own land (Ezekiel 37:14)
8. When My sanctuary stands among them forever (Ezekiel 37:28)
9. When I defeat the Gog Magog coalition (Ezekiel 38:23)
10. When I have finished calling My people back to Israel, not leaving any behind” (Ezekiel 39:28).

 Now here is a bit of hope for those who will listen. 

Mark 16

http://nasb.scripturetext.com/mark/16.htm

The Disciples Commissioned
      14Afterward He appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at the table; and He reproached them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who had seen Him after He had risen. 15And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. 16“He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned. 17“These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues; 18they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”       19So then, when the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. 20And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them, and confirmed the word by the signs that followed.]

 

 

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Accidental Discovery Pieces Together Ancient Biblical Manuscript

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Two parts of an ancient biblical manuscript separated across centuries and continents were reunited for the first time in a joint display Friday, thanks to an accidental discovery that is helping illuminate a dark period in the history of the Hebrew Bible.

clipped from www.foxnews.com The 1,300-year-old fragments, which are among only a handful of Hebrew biblical manuscripts known to have survived the era in which they were written, existed separately and with their relationship unknown, until a news photograph of one's public unveiling in 2007 caught the attention of the scholars who would eventually link them. Together, they make up the text of the Song of the Sea, sung by jubilant Israelites after fleeing slavery in Egypt and witnessing the destruction of the pharaoh's armies in the Red Sea. "The enemy said: 'I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil. My lust shall be satisfied upon them, I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them,'" reads the song, which appears in the Book of Exodus. "Thou didst blow thy wind, the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters." The manuscripts are "filling the gap," said Israel Museum curator Adolfo Roitman. "We can see we are dealing with a tradition that is still alive."

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