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“Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.”  Joel 3:14

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 with the scrolls.  God was raising up the word of his prophets at the same moment he was restoring Israel to the land just as he promised.

The oldest manuscripts of Gods word at that time were still over one thousand years after the Gospels were written,  and some had argued we couldn’t be sure what we have had remained unchanged.   All criticism was silenced at the exact same moment in history as he restored his people just as he promised he would.

The complete Isaiah scroll was copied 160 years before Jesus.  I’ve stood myself in Jerusalem at the Israel Museum, at the Shrine of the Book and looked at it behind the glass, its on display as a witness for anyone who cares to consider,

September 20th, 1947|—70 days—| November 29,1947 Partition
September 20th, 1947|–7200 days–| June 7th, 1967 Jerusalem Restored
September 20th, 1947|–25200 days–| September 17, 2016 (70 years)
June 7th, 1967|———–18000 days–| September 17, 2016 (50 years)

The Sabbath day occurring between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in 1947 was Saturday, September 20th.  That day,  as it occurs,  is a special Sabbath and has the name “Shabbat Shuvah” which means ‘the Sabbath of Return’, ‘return o lord how long?‘ ,‘the days of our years are three score years and ten (70 years)’  Psalm 90:10

Why are the nations against Israel,  and why do they reward lies and hatred?

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”  Ephesians 1:6

“Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?  The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.”  Psalm 2:1-3

“For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:” Psalm 83:5

The UN vote was just one more step in this direction, but it was a significant step, an actual agreement must be made at some point in the future, then we’ll see as its written in Joel,

“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.” Joel 3:1-2

Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria were restored June 7th 1967, and this is exactly what God is referring to here, not Israel restored in general from the captivity from 606 BC as occurred in 1948, but from the desolation of Jerusalem that came in 587 BC with the third siege, and this refers to the time of the end,  after Jerusalem and Judah specifically are restored, and then they divide his land,

Why does God repeatedly mention “the valley of Jehoshaphat” here?

He’s referring us to what he did in 2 Chronicles 20:15.  To show how it was and will be when he fights in the day of battle, to give us evidence and warning, he does nothing that’s not written in the prophets, we are without excuse when he does act, its ending when this day comes.

“And he said , Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God’s. Tomorrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel. Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed ; tomorrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you.”  2 Chronicles 20:15-17

Additionally he says “set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD” this also implies the time for us to work is over,  its time to rest in him, the day is over, the night has come,

“Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.  Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?  I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.  For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.”  Isaiah 63:1-4

And as we’re told in Zechariah 14, this is the conclusion of Adams rule, surrendered to Satan in the Garden of Eden,

“Behold, the day of the LORD cometh , and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.  For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken , and the houses rifled , and the women ravished ; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.  Then shall the LORD go forth , and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. “ Zechariah 14:1-3

And then the nations are judged,  it will be as with many of the same nations that have decided as being (for or against) his work,  its the valley of decision,

These prophetic events set in motion circumstances that bring the end of the age, being the day of the Lord upon the whole Earth:

“Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;  Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the Lord come upon you, before the day of the Lord’s anger come upon you.”  Zephaniah 2:1-2

The Nations Assembled together and as world leader have remarked on the 1967 Border being full of reproach and vile against Israel:

“I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.”   Zephaniah 2:8

“Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the Lord, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.” Zephaniah 3:8

And for those who lament and sigh over this evil:

“I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.”  Zephaniah 3:18

“When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:  And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.”  Matthew 25:31-33