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The rapture of the believers in the gospel of Jesus Christ happens 7 years prior to this rapture of the Jewish elect. The rapture of these gospel Christian is shown with much scriptural detail at 4horses4nationsofrevelation6.com/ TheHolyGrailofBibleProphecy
This page covers the lifted up from the earth
(rapture) of the Jewish elect of God, and the 144,000 Jewish seed of Abraham.
The full description of the four beasts of Daniel's vision and the 7 years of tribulation also beginning in Chapter 7 are on a page called
Tribulation Prophecies of Daniel.
1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.
2 Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of heaven strove upon the great sea.
3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand upon two feet as a man; and a man's heart was given to it.
The Lion is the nation of Israel, the eagle's wings are given from God, they are expedited military prowess and skill.
After bringing the Jews out of Egypt God said
Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.
Exodus19:4
Isaiah speaks of power from on high given to the Jewish seed of Abraham.
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.Isaiah 40:31
4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand upon two feet as a man; and a man's heart was given to it.
Daniel said
I beheld till,
Daniel beheld from introduction of the Lion Israel until the end of the tribulation period and the wings of Jehovah's provisions are no longer needed
(plucked). Israel is
lifted up from the earth unto the 3rd heaven
and made to stand upon two feet as a man
which no nation has ever been able to achieve as God had intentioned from his creation.
And a man's heart was given to it, Israel, Israelites receive a new heart.
My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.Pslams 57:7
THE END
of tribulation comes shy of the prophesied 7 years,
And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.
Mark 13:20
Jesus appears in the sky at the end of Daniel's prophesied tribulation period,
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Jude 1:14-15
Jesus Christ, The Word of God comes at Armageddon and to smite the nations.
13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
Jesus Christ, Yeshua Hamashiach, Jesus the Jewish Messiah
the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels;Matthew 16:27 and with the great power of
ten thousands of his saints.
Jude 1:14
26 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.
27 And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
The elect are carried away by angels to the uttermost part of heaven. God is going to lay out and separate these Jews by the twelve tribes and spread the twelve tribes all around heaven.
The Deed for the Land of Israel
The first recorded deed for the land of Israel found in Genesis is an everlasting covenant (contract) for an everlasting possession. This deed is not revocable by any bogus worldly religion with their bogus god/gods. God spoke to Abraham and to Abraham′s seed.
7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever? 2 Chronicles 20:7
But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend. Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.Isaiah 41:8-9
Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.Isaiah 41:11
Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.Isaiah 41:14
Exodus return to the land.
God is the chief architect of the Jewish tribal layout in the map you see below. The tribes after having left the land because of drought, were held captive by the Egyptians. God then brings the tribes back to the land of his promise to Israel and separates the nation of Israel into the separate tribes shown on the map.
Map of the Settlements of the
Twelve Tribes of Israel
It took about 6 years for the tribes of Israel to conquer the Land of Canaan and to overcome the military might of the ancient Canaanites according to Joshua 14. It was at this time that Joshua divided the land among the tribes and allotted portions according to the Word of the Lord, the size of the tribe, and by casting lots.
( Quote - Bible History Online )
Moses having brought the Jews to the Jordan river before the land of God's promise said
Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.Deuteronomy 1:8
And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee.
And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When ye are come to the brink of the water of Jordan, ye shall stand still in Jordan.Joshua 3:7-8
And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand upon an heap.Joshua 3:13
And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.Joshua 3:17
And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD were come up out of the midst of Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up unto the dry land, that the waters of Jordan returned unto their place, and flowed over all his banks, as they did before.Joshua 4:18
For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over:Joshua 4:23
In the actual dispersing of these lands to the twelve tribes
the word inheritance is used 59 times in The Book of Joshua.
The seed of Abraham will inherit the lands.
The One Hundred and Forty Four Thousand Seed of Abraham
This appears to be perhaps another Jewish passover. This is definitely a passover event in the verses below, Revelation 7:2-8, whereas angels with the seal of God need to mark people before the destroying angels can hurt. It would not be unlike God to have this event occur on the anniversary of the original passover, should it turn out be such an event.
John the Revelator, John the Apostle of Jesus is called up to heaven in the spirit when he saw these visions, by this time in history John is an old man and the eleven other apostles have all been martyred for preaching Jesus Christ the way.
2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,
3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
5 Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.
6 Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nephthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand.
7 Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand.
8 Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.
The marking of this twelve thousand men from the twelve tribes of Israel takes place in the first half of the 7 year tribulation period, after introduction of the sixth angel of the 7 seal judgements of God. Also, in the first half, after the introduction of the fifth angel of the 7 trumpet judgements it is commanded to hurt men but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.Revelation 9:4
(locusts with power as scorpions torment men for 5 months)
The Twelve Tribes Are Told To Flee Into The Mountains
The prophecy of the 144,000 Jews states the Jews will be on the run from the dragon and they will be in this safe place before the middle of the tribulation. They are to be fed in this place by God who will provide for all of the peoples needs for 1260 days.
Dr. Howard C. Estep explains in this video, A Place Prepared of God
● Fury of the Antichrist against the Jew
● The Abomination of Desolation stands in the Holy Place
● God tell Jews to flee into the wilderness
● God blocks Satan chasing the woman
● Antichrist receives Satan′s power
● God saves a remnant of Israel′s 144,000 to put in the land of Genesis 12
● The Lord comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the world for their inequity
● Dr. Estep takes us on a trip to Petra Jordan, a likely hiding place
● All Israel is saved to a physical salvation
This again is John's vision in heaven and it will relate to a vision on earth.
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:
Revelation 12:1
The woman in the vision is Israel and the twelve stars on the crown represent the twelve tribes of Israel.
On earth this woman is specifically the 144,000 seed of Abraham (Israel)
And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Revelation 12:6
Jehovah God (He who provides) helps the woman.
And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
Revelation 12:14 The serpent is none other than the dragon (Satan). God taunts the Devil with this verse in the scriptures because the Devil has no chance of defeating the plan of God. Allelujah!
Mid point of the 7 year tribulation
God said I will send you two witnesses in the middle of the years.
And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.Revelation 11:3
The Jewish faith believes that Elijah from the Torah (Old Testament) never died and is coming back because of this verse
As Elisha and Elijah walked along Elijah explained that he would be going up to heaven.
And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.2 Kings 2:11
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:Malachi 4:5
The return of Elijah will fulfill the prophecy of Malachi 4:5, the last book of the Jewish Bible, the Old Testament.
After the rapture of the Body of Christ, there are none that can speak up for God publicly and not be martyred. In order to continue to provide any gospel to the world God sends two men to earth from heaven to call the people to repentance, these two have powers not seen in a man before.
● Appearing of Antichrist happens at the beginning of the 7 years
● Two men, God will bring back to earth as witnesses for Him.
● The 2000 year church age (a little older now) concludes with the rapture
● Antichrist appears with a 7 year peace treaty between Israel and Islam
● Judgement of the believers works in heaven
● Revelation of Antichrist in middle of the tribulation years on earth
● The Marriage Supper of the Lamb in heaven
● The Two Witnesses appear with powers like Elijahs had over the earth
● Supernatural powers were given to Elijah similar to Moses power
● Christ comes at Armageddon
The leopard, or antichrist, or little horn appears in Revelation Chapter 13
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
The Leopard's feet are as the
feet of a bear, the Antichrist will rule as a communist. His mouth as the mouth of a lion, he will blaspheme the God of heaven and the Prince of princes. And the dragon (Satan) will give him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
The Leopard from Daniel's Tribulation Prophecies
The little horn comes out of one of the four nation which were Alexander the Great's allies. The Antichrist will be one of these four ethnicities,
Greece - Turkey -Syria - Egypt
(not in their own power),
this is the power of the four
wings of a bird
The Leopard is the antichrist, the four heads are four nations which consolidate under the power of the antichrist, whereas he receives that dominion and become the little horn, a horn being a power or a nation.
Satan will give his strength to this alliance, these are the
wings of a bird these are not the wings of an eagle as only Jehovah God can provide those wings.
Egypt is one of the Leopard heads and the Leopard will do satanic miracles.
And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.Revelation 13:3
God has said:
And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.
Ezekiel 30:24
And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate
forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
Ezekiel29:12
Daniel speaking of the little horn in a complete different set of prophecies.
And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practice, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.Daniel 8:24
Christian's are now the saints in heaven with glorified bodies, Jews will be physical saints here and into the one thousand year reign of Jesus Christ.
21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;
22 Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.
27 And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
28 Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.
Dr. Howard C. Estep explains in the shortened video below, The Land - The People
● I will bless Abraham's seed and in them will all families of the earth be blessed
● The lands that God promised to Abraham in Genesis 15:18.
● The twelve tribes of Israel will occupy this land in the millennium, the 1000 year reign of Jesus Christ.
● God makes an everlasting (eternal) convenient with Abraham's seed for the land
● How the Jews fail God and cause their own grief.
● God has a tender spot in his heart for the Jews.
● How one Jew in WW1 prepared the land of Israel for the people.
● How one other Jew in WW2 prepared the people for the land to become a nation.
● All of Israel will be saved, all twelve tribes.
As Dr. Estep suggests in this video the Jewish nation will occupy these lands which create the new nation state of Israel. The land which was promised to Abraham's posterity has never been realized. This will be fulfilled in the one thousand year reign of Christ and these lands will be occupied by the Jews, and Abraham's posterity will be as numerous as the sands along the seas and the scriptures will be fulfilled, as they were written.
Confusion in prophecy
There is confusion in prophecy over 144,000 Jews, which comes from the study of the following verse. It appears that these are all men and as such prophesy teachers will say I think these are evangelist preachers for Jesus Christ, even though this is not a time of man evangelizing anywhere on earth.
4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.
In the book of Genesis God did not say he created a woman, he said that he created a female man. Adam named the female woman.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.Genesis 1:27
He created
him; male and female.
Therefore when God addresses men in the bible in many instances he is speaking to male and female. The fact that it says they
were not defiled with women; for they are virgins
likely means they were not defiled by the opposite sex. Given this, the twelve thousand men are likely 6 thousand males and 6 thousand females from each of the twelve tribes. These are virgins and are likely young people.
Map of the final boundaries of the nation of Israel.
And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Zion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.
Revelation 14:1
In a victory verse whereas Christ the Lamb of God has defeated the nations of the world at Armageddon, and removed the one hundred and forty four from their hidding place, he will soon apportion the final land of Israel to each of the tribes of Abraham′s seed.
The areas in this map are probably the most war torn nations of the world. Therefore it seems likely after Armageddon and the time it takes to remove all the gentiles out of this land and the land is restored and made livable may require several months. The Jewish elect may have been evacuated to heaven for a short time and out of harms way, to be sorted by tribe, given a new heart, and a Godly reeducation.
Inasmuch as it appears these Jews are not converts of Christ and there is no mention of them receiving glorified bodies, they may have been taken to heaven as Elijah and Enoch were, still in their human bodies. It may be that after the 144,000 are placed all around the new state of Israel by tribe, that the elect from heaven are returned to their individual tribes on earth. This would restore families back together and there will be feasts of remembrance which come out of
the time of Jacob′s trouble.Jeremiah 30:7
Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed
When Daniel receives this timeline relating to the defiled sanctuary it is in the exact middle of the tribulation's seven year period, where the abominations of the Antichrist has stopped the Jews temple worship, as the Antichrist has declared himself to be GOD.
The Temple in the Book of Ezekiel will be built at the beginning of this tribulation; prophecies say craftsmen from around the world will come to Jerusalem to assist in the building of this temple.
Daniel receives prophecy on the coming tribulation.
21 Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.
23 At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision.
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
The Antichrist will make a peace treaty between the Jews, Islam and others for one week (7 years). This is called the 70th week of Daniel.
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
11 Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.
12 And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practisted, and prospered.
13 Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?
14 And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
So if God were to use the typical time period of 1260 days for the cleansing of the sanctuary, then that could indicate a second half of a tribulation period of only 1040 days. This would mean that the last half of this tribulation, the great and terrible day of the LORD is then shortened by 220 days.
And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.
Mark 13:20
The raptured of Jewish elect then might be returned to earth in time for the opening of the temple, being trained in heaven with the new temple ceremonies.