Isaiah 51:17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
Isaiah 51:22 Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:
God tells Israel that there will come and end to the suffering of Jews for their identity with Jehovah. All of Europe and the Muslims hate this promise because Mohammed told Muslims to punish Jews for rejecting Islam. The EU has sided with Mohammed as they attack Jerusalem. The notion that the Arabs have a right to part of Jerusalem is utter nonsense. The city of David included all of Jerusalem from the day David established it onward. Arabs never ruled anything from Jerusalem.
The role of the cup of trembling, in the time of the Great Tribulation, or just before, will become a cup which the nations drink. Jerusalem will become a symbol of God's rage over the rejection of Jesus Christ as Lord and the only Savior of man. Islam again hates this promise because they know they are the ones "round about." Islamic scholars study their Bibles very diligently, and they know they are under the threat of God to receive this punishment for following Allah.
Zechariah 12:2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
There is more to the location of the temple on the Temple Mount, which is keeping the Jews from building the Third Temple, than is presented in the video below. They must know precisely where the temple should sit, and they must know precisely where the altar of sacrifice must sit. They have NO idea, and the knowledge was lost hundreds of years ago.
They also need the ashes of a red heifer to consecrate the heifer that must be offered on the new altar to consecrate the temple. Long ago, there were ashes from the alter, of a red heifer, hidden in three places just for the present situation, the rebuilding of a destroyed temple. All three hidden ash caches have been lost or forgotten. This prevents the consecration of the altar to restart the worship of Jehovah.
Only a Jew from the era of the giving and keeping of the Law of Moses would know these details. The last appearance of Moses and Elijah was on the Mount of Transfiguration when Christ was revealed in all his glory to John, Peter, and James. The next verses tell us who will return to tell the Jews where to place the next temple.
Matthew 17:9 And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead.
10 And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?
11 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.
What is the top priority as to the need of restoration to Israel? Answer: The temple and the worship there. When will Elias (Elijah) come and restore all things, that is, the Temple worship of Israel?
John tells us about the return of Elias soon.
Revelation 11:1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
11 And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.
12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
It seems very likely that Moses and Elijah, as a sequel to the Mount of Transfiguration visit, will return with the precise instructions for the location of the temple. They may also restore the identity of the Jews alive today who are the bloodline of the priesthood. Otherwise, the Jews have no idea who should be the Levites serving in the temple and who should by the High Priest. It seems glaringly obvious that Elias, who is Elijah, will be the one to restore the legal knowledge for the temple to be built and worship restored. It would seem likely that Moses is the other one of the two witnesses because he was the man to whom God gave the law. But, again, John was the last one to measure the temple, as seen in Revelation 11:1-2 above. John may be one of the witnesses.
Furthermore, John would be on hand to be a zealous Amen Corner when Elijah teaches the Jews about the coming of Jesus Christ as their Messiah, thus.....
Malachi 4:4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
What better second witness to Elijah's testimony than the Apostle who gave us the Gospel, John?
There is an experience John had while receiving the Revelation which hints at John returning to preach to Israel:
Revelation 10:8 And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.
9 And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.
10 And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.
11 And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.
In any case, we do know that Elijah will be one of the witnesses.
Donald Trump, unknown to himself, has very possibly initiated the final terror of Israel when they are attacked from all sides, and very soon God will pass the cup of trembling from Israel to the Islamic nations who have rejected the God of their father, Abraham. Muslims need to be totally broken of their zeal for Islam, and this will do it.
What does this mean to you, a Bible believer? It means the time of the Church's exit in what is called The Rapture must be very near. It also means the USA is very close to being destroyed to force this nation to leave the Middle East and let the prophetic cast finish the divine drama. If the USA were to stay in the Middle East as the final prophecies were played out, the godless rulers of the USA would do everything possible to prevent the fulfillment of prophecy.
Are you ready to go, my friend? And, who do you love who is NOT ready to go? It is high time we give the Gospel to lost sinners we care about.
THE MARXIST LEFT MEDIA IN THE US IS ATTACKING TRUMP'S DECISION
This, in spite of the fact that a near unanimous Congress voted to recognize Jerusalem in 1995. This shows how the Leftist Democrats have morphed into rabid Marxists in recent years.
The White Race has almost universally attacked Israel on the subject of Jerusalem. I have long believed that most of the White Race, those who received and spread the Gospel in the past, will be almost totally destroyed during the Great Tribulation by famine, plague, and war. The reason is that they left the Truth and attacked the Gospel and the order God gave them. This is another incentive for Bible believers in America and Europe to give the Gospel to unsaved friends and family.
I suspect that the Rapture will remove so many Americans that this nation will totally collapse. If ten percent of Americans (30 million) did not show for work tomorrow morning, not be here to pay their collective debts and mortgages, and not be in the market place to spend their money, this nation would go into total panic, the stock market would crash, and the Government would not be able to explain what happened.
Some prophecy teachers claim that no one will notice when we are gone. Don't kid yourself. They will notice, if nowhere else, at the banks and loan companies and at VISA and other credit card companies. The US east and west coast might not be as hard hit, but middle America would be devastated, and farm production would collapse. In the deep south of the US many police and sheriff's departments now find 100% of their officers sitting in a Baptist Church every Sunday. Huge areas would suddenly have no law enforcement.
The Rapture of Christ's Church would result in the end of the USA as a world power. Europe would hardly notice the Rapture, nor would Australia and Canada, at least eastern Canada.
Also, consider that fact that God saved Nineveh partly because they repented, but also because of the cattle and babies. If God, in his mercy, is not a Calvinist and decides to take the babies who are not accountable in the Rapture, the panic would be clear off the charts.
Plan on it, my friend. Plan to leave without regrets. Get to your unsaved friends with the Gospel NOW.
2 Corinthians 6:2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
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