My study on Ezekiel 45 and 46 this morning caused me to wonder a few things. Why will there be sacrifices in the future? Also, I never knew the land allotment would be in straight lines. Here we can find some explanations. More explanations here.
I love the verse in Psalm 121:4 “Behold, He who keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.”
Here we find a very good explanation of the new Land of Israel. Changes will come when Messiah puts His feet again on the Mt. of Olives. The high places will be made low and the low places will be high.
Sadly, Jerusalem as we know it now is to be destroyed one more time according to the Old Testament Zechariah and also according to John the author of Revelation:
For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city (Jerusalem) shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women ravished; half of the city shall go into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. Then the LORD will go forth and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle. On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives which lies before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley; so that one half of the Mount shall withdraw northward, and the other half southward. And the valley of my mountains shall be stopped up, for the valley of the mountains shall touch the side of it; and you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD your God will come, and all the holy ones with him. (Zechariah 14:2-5)
…And there were flashes of lightning, voices, peals of thunder, and a great earthquake such as had never been since men were on the earth, so great was that earthquake. The great city (Jerusalem) was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered great Babylon, to make her drain the cup of the fury of his wrath. And every island fled away, and no mountains were to be found; and great hailstones, heavy as a hundred-weight, dropped on men from heaven, till men cursed God for the plague of the hail, so fearful was that plague. (Revelation 16: 18-21)
But, earth is to be restored by God’s Messiah. A great golden age is about to dawn on the human race as God will at last have His day. Messiah—Immanuel—God with us—will reign on earth—and He will rule from Jerusalem. Tiny Israel will be elevated to first place among the nations, and Jerusalem, City of Peace will be the world capital visited annually by pilgrims from all the nations: Zechariah 14:16-21
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