“Let us think of ways to MOTIVATE ONE ANOTHER to acts of love and good works, let us NOT GIVE UP meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and ALL THE MORE as you see the Day approaching.” (Heb. 10:24-25) The capitalized “D” indicates the DAY OF THE LORD! “Heaven is a wonderful place, filled with glory and grace.”
The prophet Joel speaks of this time, “For behold, in those days and AT THAT TIME, When I BRING BACK the captives of Judah and Jerusalem…” (Joel 3:1) In 70 AD General Titus came to Jerusalem and killed thousands of Jews, tore the Temple of God to the ground (not one stone was left upon another) and took the remaining Jews and sent them into many different nations so they would no longer be.
On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel. U.S. President Harry S. Truman recognized the new nation on the same day. When Israel’s first chief rabbi, Isaac Herzog, visited the White House to thank Truman, he told him, “Mr. president, God put you in your mother’s womb so you could be the instrument to bring about the rebirth of Israel after 2,000 years.” When the Rabbi finished, David Niles, the president’s assistant, who was in the room, thought the rabbi might have overdone it until he looked at the president and saw tears running down his cheeks. President Franklin D. Roosevelt WAS AGAINST Israel becoming a nation, he died and an unlikely vice president, Harry S. Truman took over the office of president.
In that same period of time the Lord said through Joel, “I WILL ALSO GATHER ALL NATIONS, And bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; And I will enter into judgment with them there On account of MY PEOPLE, MY HERITAGE ISRAEL, (when someone messes with Israel they are messing with what belongs to God) Whom THEY HAVE SCATTERED among the nations; They have also DIVIDED UP MY LAND.” (Joel 3:2) On this coming May 14th it will be 74 years since Israel became a nation, Jesus said, “…when you see all these things, you know that IT IS NEAR, right at the door. Truly I tell you, THIS GENERATION WILL CERTAINLY NOT PASS AWAY until ALL these things have happened.” (Matt. 24:33-34)
Your Personal Pastor -Bill Stockham