THE BIG PICTURE UNDERSTANDING OF WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST – JACOB’S TROUBLE - PART ONE OF THREE

Our understanding of the end times is much more serious than we have understood. It will be the worst time that ever has been for both Israel and the Christian community. This is a short introduction to some hard truth.

There is a controversy playing out in Zion that will have eternal consequences for humanity. It has been an issue since Elohim promised the LAND of CANAAN to Abraham. The current war in Gaza is a prelude to the end of our current age. This does not mean the end is NOW but this war is leading to the end which is also known as “Jacob’s Trouble” as written in the Holy Scriptures.

Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. Hear ye, O mountains the LORD's controversy and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel. Micah 6.1-2

This controversy is about the LAND. It is a controversy that will test all hearts. It will and has already created division throughout the world. It is a sword that will separate the nations into sheep and goats. It is immutable and cannot be changed. God is God and He has spoken. He has ordained. It is the issue of the end times.

We have never in our lives seen the rise of hatred toward the State of Israel as we are now witnessing. It is going to increase to a fever pitch as we approach the end of this current age. https://usawatchdog.com/jonathan-cahn-gives-the-biblical-breakdown-of-israel-hamas-end-time-mystery/

Jacob and Esau are half-brothers. Jacob represents the two houses, Judah and Israel. Esau represents the Arab nations. In Scripture. Esau is Edom the perennial enemy of all Israel (Genesis 36, Obadiah).

We see in Obadiah that Edom also prophetically represents the nations who are and will come against the State of modern Israel. Obadiah describes the awful conflict which the Controversy of Zion will create during the Great Tribulation. The book describes Elohim’s judgment on the nations at the end.

What many do not understand about this conflict is that the modern State of Israel at some point will be invaded by “Edom” and once again be scattered throughout the nations. They were invaded on October 7 this year. We will see if Israel will be victorious or seriously wounded. Whatever the outcome Israel is being seriously weakened and will at some point be defeated and scattered for the final time in HISTORY.

Yes, I know what many are thinking, “No way, Israel will never lose.” Scripture does not support this.

Deut 4.26-31 spells it out: I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess; you will not prolong your days in it, but will be utterly destroyed. And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you… When you are in distress, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, when you turn to the LORD your God and obey His voice (for the LORD your God is a merciful God), He will not forsake you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.

The above scripture is the result of disobedience of Elohim’s people. When they followed strange gods and forsook the Torah Laws this was allowed as chastisement. The current State of Israel has not accepted their Messiah Yeshua, they are politically divided, and Tel Aviv is promoted as the “Gay Capital of the World” to just mention a few examples. They are nothing like the future Nation/Israel/Jerusalem will be like as described in scriptures.

Their Elohim has NOT given up on them. He is displeased but He has also promised he will deliver them in the time of Jacob’s Trouble! This is Elohim’s eternal promise to Judah and Ephraim. This is the final judgment/chastisement upon Elohim’s people. This is the scriptural pattern of chastisement, judgment, repentance, and restoration. In this case it will reveal God’s glory, power, and Kingship to all Nations.

If you understand that we as believers are grafted into Israel you know what I’m saying. The Jews are Judah, Ephraim consists of lost 10 tribes and gentiles. These comprise the two houses—Judah and Ephraim. This blog covers these issues in great detail. God is going to deliver ALL ISRAEL (Ezekiel 28.15-28).

The world and most of the “Christian” community do not understand this. If we are grafted into Israel this includes you. This is why it is important to understand the Holy Scriptures from a Hebraic foundation. Christianity created their own interpretations and religion. The vast majority have no understanding of these things.

We must understand our Hebrew foundations, the feasts of the Lord, and to whom Yeshua was speaking in the Gospels. Many are awakening to the truth is these critical times.

We can look at the entire chapter of Zechariah 12 for further confirmation of this controversy:  

“The burden of the word of the LORD upon Israel, said the LORD, who stretches forth the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth and forms the spirit of man within him.

Behold, I place Jerusalem as a cup of poison unto all the peoples round about and also unto those of Judah who shall be in the siege against Jerusalem. And it shall be that in that day I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone unto all peoples; all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, and all the Gentiles of the earth shall gather themselves together against her. Verses 2-3

The rest of Zechariah 12 describes how the LORD will save Jerusalem in that day. If He has to save them they are oppressed and down trodden. The truth is the State of Israel will lose the final conflict which then leads to the reign of the Anti-Christ who hates the Jewish nation---AND the Christians who support Israel! We will be targets.

Look at Ezekiel 20.33-42 - “As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “surely with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out, I will rule over you. I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you are scattered, with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out.  And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will plead My case with you face to face.  Just as I pleaded My case with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will plead My case with you,” says the Lord GOD.

This is an end time prophecy to Elohim’s people! Ezekiel continues:

“I will make you pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant; I will purge the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against Me; I will bring them out of the country where they dwell, but they shall not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

“As for you, O house of Israel,” thus says the Lord GOD: “Go, serve every one of you his idols—and hereafter—if you will not obey Me; but profane My holy name no more with your gifts and your idols. For on My holy mountain, on the mountain height of Israel,” says the Lord GOD, “there all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, shall serve Me; there I will accept them, and there I will require your offerings and the firstfruits of your sacrifices, together with all your holy things. I will accept you as a sweet aroma when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered; and I will be hallowed in you before the Gentiles. Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when I bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for which I raised My hand in an oath to give to your fathers.

It is important for us to remember that ALL prophecy is dual. It can apply to future generations as well as past. Yeshua did exactly that when the Apostles asked him about the end of the world in Matthew 24.15-22:

Therefore, when ye see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, which shall stand in the holy place (whosoever reads, let him understand), then let those who are in Judaea flee into the mountains; let him who is on the housetop not come down to take anything out of his house, neither let him who is in the field return back to take his clothes.

And woe unto those that are with child and to those that give suck in those days! But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter neither on the Sabbath day, for then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And if those days were not shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.

The Apostles asked what shall be the signs of your coming and the end of the world. Yeshua spoke a dual prophecy to them. He answered their end time question and was also warning them about the coming destruction of the temple. When the temple was destroyed in 70 AD those who followed and obeyed Yeshua fled to the mountains.

The key here is that the Apostles asked about the end of the world. Let the Bible interpret itself. He told them by referring to Daniel’s prophecy (Daniel 11.21-12.13). Daniel’s vision was for the end time period of the Anti-Christ who will take over the temple and declare himself GOD. It is the 7 year tribulation. The abomination takes place at the half way point of the tribulation.

Prayerfully read Isaiah 4, 6, 11. Note Isaiah 4.4-

When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning.

The Nation of Israel (United House of Judah and Ephraim) will be washed and purged. This will occur after the final invasion of the modern State of Israel, their scattering, and FINAL return to the LAND at the end of this age. They are being washed and purged after their final chastisement and acceptance of Messiah as in Zechariah 12. Yes, Yeshua is going to come and save all Israel (Read Romans 9 thru 11) after the Anti-Christ and the nations attempt to annihilate the Jewish people for the final time.

Brothers and Sisters this is what the entire end time is about! The Adversary, haSatan, wants to annihilate God’s people once and for all time and rule this world! The Anti-Christ and the nations are going to persecute ALL ISRAEL and those who support them.

The main stream Christian community thinks they will be raptured out! NO. They will be required to show their love and sacrifice to the persecuted Jews. That is the ultimate purpose of whom the world calls “Christians” during the tribulation. Ironic, isn’t it? The Jews have been persecuted by “Christians” for centuries.

At the end of this age EDOM will invade Israel and seek to destroy her. The Jews will flee to the ends of the earth to escape and we who have been grafted into the “Commonwealth of Israel” will suffer for assisting them. Identification with the Jews will be painful, BUT if we persevere in our love toward them many of them will be moved to faith in Messiah! Corrie ten Boom was an example of such a person during the Second World War.

This is a hard word. This is a short introduction to what is to come. In summary:

The issue of the LAND is the basis of the dispute. The people of the land (‘am ha’aretz) will be the target.

This causes the Nations to rage (Psalm2)

Final eschatological fulfillment is still to come:  And I heard the Man clothed in linens, who was upon the waters of the river, who raised his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and swore by the living one in the ages that it shall be for a time, times, and a half; and when the scattering of the power of the holy people shall be finished, all these things shall be fulfilled. Dan 12.7

Daniel 11.21-12.13 is an outline of the 7 year tribulation when these things occur: Many shall be purified and made white and purged, but the wicked shall get worse; and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand. Dan 12.10 We are wise if we understand.

Elohim will use the issue of the LAND and people of the modern State of Israel to test the hearts of all humanity at the end of this age. This will result in final judgment of the nations into sheep and goats. Yeshua will return to save all Israel whom has survived the tribulation. The Millennial Kingdom Age will commence with peace for a thousand years.

The goat nations will rebel one final time prior to the White Throne Judgment and the New Jerusalem will come down from the heavens. Revelation 20 through 22.

There are many more scriptures to corroborate all of this. Isaiah, Ezekiel, Zachariah, Joel, Hosea, and Jeremiah are key end time books. Meditate on them.

I also want to bring your attention to a little known and recognized book on this subject: The Controversy of Zion, by Dalton Lifsey. Unfortunately this book is out of print. It can be found at online book sellers for $97 or less. It is very detailed and makes the case above by allowing the Bible to interpret itself.

Daniel said understanding would increase in the last days. Amen.