Are we in End Times?

 Many websites, blogs, Vlogs, YouTube, and other videos are paying attention to current events in the Middle East and seeing in them events prophesied in the Bible apparently being fulfilled. It cannot be denied by anyone who has studied the Bible that the actions of the entire world appear to be happening as predicted, in some cases, thousands of year ago. A large percentage of the population is oblivious to this but that too was prophesied. A fairly recent Pew Report discovered that only about one third of the population read the Bible, pray, and believe.

That is a surprising percentage as the Bible says that the Almighty said, “I will wipe you from the face of the Earth. Two thirds will I destroy but one third will I save, and I will bring them through the fire and refine them as fine silver is refined. They will call on me and I will say they are my people, and they will be saved.” Many ignore the warning and deride the possibility that there is a Supreme Being or one who will one day judge all people according to their deeds.

Much of the world treats Israel with disdain and backs the Muslim Arabs who claim the land, despite what the Bible and even the Quran say about Israel. None of them know the history ancient or recent and follow a narrative created after the 1967 six-day war. Recent claims also refer to Jesus as a “Palestinian”, ignoring the fact that the Romans did not rename Judea and Israel until hundreds of years after Jesus’ crucifixion. The sign posted on top of Jesus’ cross had the letters “INRI”, which stood for the Latin phrase, “Yesus Nazareth Rex Yuden”, which translates in English to “Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews”.

Christians who have waited over two thousand years for Jesus’ return should not expect him to go to a church, he is more likely to go to a Synagogue, just as he did two thousand years ago. Nor is he likely to go to a Mosque or destroy Christians as the Muslims expect him to do, those are concepts that were invented over six hundred years after the time of Jesus.

When we examine true historic records of the Holy Land we should start with, Hadriani Relandi who was a geographer, cartographer, traveller, philologist, he knew several European languages, and Arabic, ancient Greek, and Hebrew. In 1695 he visited almost 2,500 settlements mentioned in the Bible. The record of his report was published in Latin, the common language of scholars at the time. The research was conducted as follows: He first created the map of Palestine. He then designated every settlement mentioned in the Bible or the Talmud with its original name. If the original was Jewish, it meant "pasuk" (a suggestion in the Holy Scriptures that mentioned the name.) If the original was Roman or Greek, the connection was in Latin or Greek. In the end, he made a population census by settlements.

Here are the main conclusions and some facts:

* The country is mainly empty, abandoned, sparsely populated, the main population is Jerusalem, Akko, Tzfat, Jaffa, Tveria and Gaza.  Most of the population is Jews, almost everyone else is Christian, very few Muslims, who are mostly nomadic Bedouins.

* The only exception is Nablus (now Shchem), where approximately 120 people from the Muslim family Natsha and approximately 70 "Shomronims" (Samaritans). In Nazareth, the capital of Galilee, lived approximately 700 people - all Christians.
* In Jerusalem there are about 5,000 people, almost all Jews and a few Christians.
* In 1695, everyone knew that the origin of the country was Jewish.
* There is not a single settlement in Palestine that has Arabic roots in its name.
* Most settlements have Jewish originals, and in some cases Greek or Roman Latin.
* Apart from the city of Ramla, there is no Arab settlement that has an original Arabic name. Jewish, Greek, or Latin names that have been changed to Arabic names, that don't make any sense in Arabic. In Arabic, there is no meaning in names like: Akko, Haifa, Jaffa, Nablus, Gaza or Jenin, and names like Ramallah, al-Khalil (Hebron), al-Quds (Jerusalem) - they do not have philological or historical Arabic roots. So, for example, in 1696, Ramallah was called Bethel (Beit El, the House of God), Hebron was called Hebron and the Cave of Machpelah was called El-Khalil (the nickname of Abraham) by the Arabs.

* Rolandi mentions Muslims only as nomadic Bedouins who came to the cities as seasonal workers in agriculture or construction.

* About 550 people lived in Gaza, half of them Jews and half Christians. Jews were successful in agriculture, especially in vineyards, olives and wheat, Christians were engaged in trade and transportation. Jews lived in Tveria and Tzfat, but their occupation is not mentioned, except for the traditional fishing in Kineret .

* In the village of Um El Fahm, for example, lived 10 families, all Christians (about 50 people). There stood a small Maronite church. The book completely refutes theories about "Palestinian traditions", "Palestinian people" and leaves almost no link between the land and the Arabs who even stole the land's Latin name (Palestine) and took it for themselves. The book was published in 1714.

That sets the picture of the confused and disputed territory of Israel, much of this has been prophesied in ancient times and the prophets have proved remarkably accurate in the assessment to date, so we should expect their predictions for the future to be just as accurate. One of the main prophecies that Biblical scholars see forming today is the beginning of a war called the war of Gog and Magog. For many years we have not been able to reconcile the prophecies with modern political boundaries. The scene has changed in recent years and the alliances predicted by the prophets have been forming before our eyes.

Iran, Russia, and China have formed an alliance and Iranian proxies in the lands around Israel are eager to join them in a battle to eliminate Israel and the Jews. Islam teaches its adherents that they will be victorious and conquer the whole world and take their rightful position as the new chosen people. It is impossible for them to see themselves as the chosen if Jews are still alive and living in Jerusalem. Antagonism against Christians comes from the same source, if Jesus was considered to be King of the Jews, then his followers or subjects will also be considered to be Jews. Islamists have been known to say, “We will get rid of the Saturday people (Jews) first and then we can get rid of the Sunday People (Christians). Their aim is to have a global caliphate and Islam as the only  permitted religion.

 

 

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