"The Secrets of GOD," as revealed by John in the Revealtion of Christ, chapter 20's hidden insights, part 3 of 3, with a renewed mind and our victory as foretold.

Okay, we are about to enter an area that few have ventured a look at, "Israel," from the renewed mindset of chapter 20 of the Revelation of Christ.


Israel:

Revelation 20:7-8, "Their reign and priesthood will be fully established within the context of the vastness of this symbolic thousand year period. In sharp contrast then, only to emphasize the complete and utter defeat of the Satanas-system, he will be let loose very briefly, out of his prison. (From the Abyss, the symbolic "Bottonless Pit-Underworld," where he was imprisoned when Jesus went there to free humanity. Jesus came back with the keys, do you remember this?!) And his obvious strategy would be to deceive the Nations (such as we are seeing today, where good is evil and evil is good, what use to be isn't any-longer, disease and chaos, anarchy seem to rule of the day) on a global scale including the four corners of the earth (they being North, South, East and West) by assembling Gog and Magog in war; Their number is as the sand of the sea." (Again, every traditional Jewish concept of judgment is addressed. Gog and Magog is now brought into the conversation, since Jewish eschatology viewed Gog and Magog as enemies to be defeated by their Messiah, which will usher in the age of the Messiah. "Then Eldad and Modad [brothers of Moses] both prophesied together, and said, "In the very end of time God and Magog and their army shall come up against Jerusalem, and they shall fall by the hand of the King Messiah; They shall be slain by the flame of fire which shall proceed from under the Throne of glory, and afterwards all the dead of Israel shall rise again to life, and shall enjoy the delights prepared for them from the beginning." Quote taken from the Jewish Targum. see reference in Num. 11:26 and Ez. 38:17)

Hosea 1:10, "Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted. In the place where it was said to them, "You are not My people," they will be called again, "children of the living GOD."

Genesis 22:17, 32:12, "'Indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heaven and as the sands which are on the seashore; And your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies.'....'For You said, I will surely prosper you and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which is too great to be numbered.'"

With our next visit I shall, the LORD willing, pick this back up with Romans 9. Until then remain puzzled about what is ahead. May the LORD of ALL increase our knoweldge and understanding of HIM!