"Modern Israel at 70"

Hal Lindsey

 

Fulfilled at Pentecost!

Zechariah's prophecy is full of explicit references to Jesus' time on earth, & he also quotes what will happen in one day:

3:8 ‘Hear, O Joshua, the high priest,
You and your companions who sit before you,
For they are a wondrous sign;
For behold, I am bringing forth My Servant the BRANCH.
9 For behold, the stone
That I have laid before Joshua:
Upon the stone are seven eyes.
Behold, I will engrave its inscription,’
Says the Lord of hosts,
‘And I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
10 In that day,’ says the Lord of hosts,
‘Everyone will invite his neighbor
Under his vine and under his fig tree.’”

14:6 It shall come to pass in that day
That there will be no light;
The lights will diminish.
7 It shall be one day
Which is known to the Lord—
Neither day nor night.
But at evening time it shall happen
That it will be light.
8 And in that day it shall be
That living waters shall flow from Jerusalem,
Half of them toward the eastern sea
And half of them toward the western sea;
In both summer and winter it shall occur.
9 And the Lord shall be King over all the earth.
In that day it shall be—
“The Lord is one,”
And His name one.
​

As Peter proclaimed at Pentecost:

Acts 2:19 I will show wonders in heaven above
And signs in the earth beneath:
Blood and fire and vapor of smoke.
20 The sun shall be turned into darkness,
And the moon into blood,
Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.
21 And it shall come to pass
That whoever calls on the name of the Lord
Shall be saved.’​

The nations united against the LORD Jesus Christ, the King of the Jews who had been welcomed by the believing people of God when he fulfilled Zec. 9. A few days later the enemies of God secretly arrested & tried him, handed him over to the Gentiles for his execution. Psalm 2 quote in Acts 4. The wrath of God against the sin of his people was poured out on the Son of God. The sun was turned to darkness at mid-day; light returned in the evening.

Full & free salvation was proclaimed to all the earth, beginning at Jerusalem, they saw their sins as in the Gospel they looked on him who they had pierced & turned to him in repentance.

The holy nation was indeed born that day, as Peter explains quoting Moses:

Exo. 19:5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine. 6 And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’

1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; 10 who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.​

The modern state of Israel has nothing to do with such prophecy. It exists in total rejection of Israel's Messiah, & in total defiance of the prophecies relating to Israel's restoration:

Eze. 47:21 “Thus you shall divide this land among yourselves according to the tribes of Israel. 22 It shall be that you will divide it by lot as an inheritance for yourselves, and for the strangers who dwell among you and who bear children among you. They shall be to you as native-born among the children of Israel; they shall have an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel. 23 And it shall be that in whatever tribe the stranger dwells, there you shall give him his inheritance,” says the Lord God.​

 

Just curious, are you scoffing at Hal-- or the prophecies?
If at Hal, just remember he was/is not a prophet. If at the biblical prophecies, well, you're treading on mighty dangerous ground!!

 

Hal. Hence why I put his name up

 

Interesting.

 

And I was 10. It was a topic of conversation at school in the 50s, as there was a common understanding that prophecy was being fulfilled.

Now two generations have lived in the modern nation of Israel, & the hoped for salvation - Jews in Israel turning in repentance & faith to the LORD Jesus Christ hasn't happened. That is proof that the OT prophecies relating to Israel are not being fulfilled today in & by the nation calling itself "Israel."

What did Jesus say about OT prophecy in response to their complaint?

Luke 24:19 And He said to them, “What things?”
So they said to Him, “The things concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a Prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, 20 and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered Him to be condemned to death, and crucified Him. 21 But we were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel.

25 Then He said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?” 27 And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.​

 

I don't have time for Lindsey; he's up there with LaHaye, Camping and assorted mixed nuts. I'm not sure what relevance his age has to it; as Covenanter has said, those who were getting all excited about the events of 1948 ain't been reading things right...

 

Okay I disagree with dispy Christian Zionism which Lindsey espouses. Better?

 

While I do not believe the modern state of Israel is a fulfillment of prophecy, I do believe it is a force for good in the Middle East; keeping Iran, Syria, and Russian intervention in check.

 

Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming. But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. For this reason you be ready too; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will.

—Matthew 24:42–44

That's enough for me.

At the end, alll the end of times labels we apply to ourselves and others will mean nothing.

 

ROFL!!