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For Judah,  judgement came with the Babylonian captivity beginning on July 23, 606 BC.   Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria have been restored since June of 1967 using the Law of Moses and fulfilling so many end time prophecies it would be difficult to assemble them all,

“When the lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.” Psalm 102:16

After the restoration process is complete, (or near complete) the nations of the world will vote (cast lots – Purim) to part the land, divide Jerusalem.   Spiritual powers and principalities are trying to undo the restoration work God has provided Israel.   God is keeping his promise “his hand is outstretched still.”  Jeremiah 32:17  I conjecture for the restoration to be complete, it requires at least 49 years to come to a future Jubilee,  to a future day of Atonement per the requirements set out in Leviticus Ch 25.

He is returning Israel to the land using the requirements of the covenant he made with Abraham and using the Holy Laws and Ordinances he provided to Israel at Mt Horeb,

“And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.  Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.  And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession,. . “ Leviticus 25:8-9

And further verse 23 states, “The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.”

See Joel 3:1 to the end of the chapter (emphasis added):

“For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.“

This is, I believe exactly where we are today prophetically and this dividing (parting of the Land) could occur with very little notice.   We know from Daniel 8:19 that at the close of the age, “at the latter end of the indignation,”  Satan’s seeks to break the Laws and ordinances,  he’ll cause the nations to break the everlasting covenant.  This is the covenant God made with the land and with the nation of Israel and with his promise of restoration at the end.  This is why it appears the end comes when they (the nations) do this,  its the vengeance of the temple,

“The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.” Jeremiah 50:28

After Israel is restored back into the land the second time,

“Then it will happen on that day that the Lord will again recover the second time with His hand The remnant . .” Isaiah 11:11

“Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries among which you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.”‘  Ezekiel 11:17

“Therefore behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when it will no longer be said, ‘As the LORD lives, who brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’ but, ‘As the LORD lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of the north and from all the countries where He had banished them.’ For I will restore them to their own land which I gave to their fathers.”  Jeremiah 16:14-15

On November 29th, 1947, the very day the UN voted to partition Palestine, the Rabbi that had received the first of the Dead Sea scrolls was listening on the radio to the reports of the UN vote as he drove up to Jerusalem that evening with the scrolls.  God was raising up the word of his prophets at the exact moment he was restoring Israel to the land just as he promised.  We are without excuse.

“For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse ”  Romans 1:20

David Ben-Gurion used the book of Ezekiel to name the new state of Israel.  They had considered naming it Zion.  When US President Harry Truman had the State Department draft the letter of recognition, they had never done it before,  also it did not have the name of Israel on the document.  President Truman made the remark that he was like Cyrus the Great.  But Cyrus was now also the King of Babylon when he performed a similar role.   Babylon received power for 70 years (25,200 days)  and was “weighed in the balances and found wanting” with the handwriting on the wall as we’re told in Daniel Ch 5.

While its outside the interest of this blog, it can be noted that 70 years after the United States used the first Atomic bomb in war,  August 6th, 1945, (effectively receiving a great sword) and rose to be the ultimate national power on the Earth on that very day, it is exactly 25,200 days to the 9th of AV in 2014.  The 9th of Av,or tish b’av has always been a day of darkness and mourning.

The southern kingdom had the Holy Temple and believed that God would never allow his house to be destroyed.   He sent Jeremiah to warn them they we’re wrong.  He told them to go to Babylon, build vineyards and settle in, they we’re to be there for 70 years and then would return to their Temple.  They were in Babylon 70 years to the day.  Daniel was reading from Jeremiah and knew the 70 years was indicated when he was shown by Gabriel the complete end of the ‘desolations’ and how and when to expect the Messiah and from when the final restoration would come and also how to count his coming to the very day, see Daniel Ch 9

The events surrounding ‘the latter end of the indignation’ Daniel 8:19,  at the time of the end leads to all out war in heaven.

If your not sure there is a spirit world with angelic and demonic activity and spiritual principalities and powers in contention all around us, this commentary will be difficult to follow.  This spiritual war is being directly fought between Michael and his angels and against Satan and those that were deceived by him.  When they ‘part the land’ when they divide Israel for gain, for “peace and safety’ , “when they shall say, peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them all” 1 Thessalonians 5:3.  The war clearly enters into a whole new arena, Satan is thrown out of Heaven, “but the court will sit” we’re told in Daniel Chapter 7 and God is now directly involved.  Which is interesting if you understand the ‘avenger of blood’ provisions of the kinsmen redeemer, then you know what is included in the scroll in Gods right hand when he hands it to Jesus in Revelation Chapter 5.  Its the right of redemption under the Law of Moses.  No one in heaven, or on the Earth or under the Earth is eligible to open it, or even look upon it.

And like the Dead Sea Scrolls which were found in caves in clay jars in 1947, I wonder if it could in some manner be the same deed Jeremiah placed in the clay jars in Anathoth and sealed up so they would last for many days? Jeremiah 32:7-14

“Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.” Luke 21:36