First, Long Silence, Now, Compressed Age! (Letter)

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Dear Lord, 

 

When Judeans began to return to Palestine from their exile in Babylon (circa 538 BC—the 6th century BC), You allowed them about 400 years to re-establish, in Palestine, the Jewish language, lifestyle, culture, 2nd temple, and covenantal life—touted as 400 years of silence from Heaven.

 

My heart once trembled at the thought of such a long delay after the AD 70 exile ended in 1948, when Israel was re-established as a unified, modern nation. As Jews’ return from Babylon was strategically in preparation for Your first coming—Your birth as a man, Scripture is abundantly clear that their 1948 return is strategically in preparation for Your return as Earth’s global king—Your promised second coming.

But rather than a long delay, in a single lifetime (!), You shepherded the restoration, in Palestine, of Jewish language, lifestyle, culture, and so much more. That includes establishment of a mighty army (per Your Ezekiel 37 prediction), plus a significant place for Israel on the world stage! 1 Yet ‘that place’ has now deteriorated significantly to be widely considered as being highly disruptive across the region, and determined, by a United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI), to be guilty of genocide! 2

 

Since every discernible, predicted precursor of Your promised, next resurrection/rapture event (for Your 3rd age saints), has long been prevalent across the world, I perceive Your delay this time, will not be so long. Rather, I intuit recent developments may foreshadow the inferred, 4th hasty migration (the 8th of 9 Biblically-noted, significant migrations) for Your kinfolk.

 

Lord God, with:

 

1. ‘the bones of Ezekiel 37’ in the world’s rear view mirror, 

2. those noted New Testament precursors splashed across its front windshield,

3. nations increasingly aligning against Israel,

4. Russia ‘spiritually practicing' in Ukraine, for what Ezekiel 38 predicts,

5. Today’s world leaders and their policies increasingly appearing to prefigure and foreshadow the predicted, final anti-Christ man, 

6. Rampant lukewarmness among Christians, outright apostasy of former Christians, and the incredible levels of spiritual delusion among us who remain, and now

7. Israel more polarized, with multifaceted divisions, possibly than any other time in its modern history,

…may all of Your spiritually-minded saints clearly discern that 1948, was not the beginning of another protracted, post-exilic period of silence, but likely the compression of this current 3rd age to its appointed climax—the imminence of Your next resurrection/rapture event, prior to the revealing of ‘that man’.

 

Similarly, may You open the spiritual eyes of Your discerning kinfolk across the world, to envision the promised, rapidly-approaching 70th week of Daniel 9, and to enlighten others about what You say lies ahead for them and their near descendants. 

 

Oh Lord, please hasten your Millennial Reign…

 

Your servant ‘watchman on the wall’,

J!

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1 ChatGPT suggests the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) may be the most successful army in history, from the perspective of number of wars fought, ...and won! Thus, it is quite a stretch for us to imagine what appears, in Ezekiel 38, to be its predicted dissolution!! 

2 See: Reuters on U.N. Commission of Inquiry.