BIRTH PANG UPDATE NUMBER 43
The Remnant of Israel,
Past, Present, and Future!
Part 8
April 5, 2002
Revelation 12:5,6,17
[5] And she brought forth a man child, who was to
rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and
to his throne. [6] 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. [17] And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to
make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and
have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
The man child seed of the woman is Jesus Christ. God
promised in Genesis 3:15 that this seed would one day crush the power of Satan,
but in so doing would suffer for the price he paid while walking and dying on
this earth. Even though the woman is herself a Jewish remnant, there will also
be a Jewish remnant within the remnant, a living remnant of believers who
testify to the unbelieving Israelis that Jesus is the Messiah, and keep the
commandments delivered to them by Jesus Christ.
They are a sealed believing remnant of 144,000 Jews living among the
one-third of Israel that flees to the Negev. This one-third will number between
1.7 and 1.9 million.
Revelation 7:4
[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.
Zechariah 13:8
[8] And it shall come to pass, that in all the land,
saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall
be left therein.
Through the testimony of the 144,000, and the
preaching of the two witnesses who lead them, it will cause all Israel to be
saved when Jesus returns, and a spiritual nation shall be born in a day.
Romans 11:25-27
[25] For I
would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should
be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel,
until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. [26] And so all Israel shall be
saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall
turn away ungodliness from Jacob: [27] For this is my covenant unto them, when
I shall take away their sins.
Zechariah 13:9
[9] And I
will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is
refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I
will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my
God.
Revelation 11:2,3
[2] But the court which is without the temple leave
out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city
shall they tread under foot forty and two months. [3] And I will give power
unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and
threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
Lord willing, in our next Birth Pang Update, I will
continue to expound on the remnant of Israel that begins the millennium.