This study describes the signs of the End Times, what has to be in place and the order of events both before and after Ya`akob’s Trouble (The Great Tribulation).

It does not discuss the events of Ya`akob’s Trouble.

Ya`akob’s Trouble (Great Tribulation) begin p.1- a brief chronology of the 7 years when p.2;

Ya`akob’s Trouble – why p.3, who p.5, where p.5 but not what;

Return of the Messiah to earth (Second Coming/Armageddon) p.5;

Daniy`els 45 days p.10;

Millennial Kingdom p.11;

Beginning of eternity p. 14;

References and Credits p.15:

The End Times/Eschatology

Part III (Judgement)

Ya`akob’s Trouble Begins

“But you, Daniy`el, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run back and forth, and knowledge shall be increased.” (Dan. 12:4). In his role as Chief Administrator, Dani`el was well accustomed to the king signing a decree that once sealed could not be changed (Dan. 6:8, 15). However, events could conspire to overturn this i.e. the king’s death or the nation being invaded. This is kal v`chomer (light to heavy) in that if an earthly king’s decree could not be changed, how much more so will the Heavenly King’s decree, once sealed, come to pass. The decrees were not to be opened by just anyone, but the person had to have a position of authority in order to speak as the king. “They sang a new song, saying, ‘You are worthy to take the book, And to open its seals: For you were killed, And bought us for Yahuah with your blood, Out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,’” (Rev. 5:9). “For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, He gave me a command, what I should say, and what I should speak.” (John 12:49). The Messiah Yahusha has been given such authority.

The Tribulation or Trib. / Ya’akob’s Trouble is highly symbolised and a great deal of time, space and effort has been taken on this subject. Care should be taken in the study of the Book of Revelation. “Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it, for the time is at hand.” (Rev. 1.3). There are blessings to those who read it out aloud and to those who hear it. “If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may Yahuah take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the set apart city, which are written in this book.” (Rev. 22:19). However, there are also curses to those who add or take away from the Book.

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This study will not go into the details of ‘what’ but will be limited to the following questions:

When?

Why?

Who?

Where?

When?

“He shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease; and on the wing of abominations shall comeone who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, shall wrath be poured out on the desolate.”(Dan. 9:27). Daniy`el’s 70^th. week will be split in to two equal halves. For the first half of the final ‘week’, the Abomination has tricked the people, but this is not a direct insult to Yahuah`Elohim. If the Messiah returns at סֻכּוֹת Sukkot, 42 months later would take it up to Pesakh [Passover] when the Abomination that causes desolation would occur with the Abomination stopping the sacrifices and desecrates the Qadosh Qadoshim. To have the maximum impact on the people, the desolation of the Qadosh Qadoshim would take place during the Feast of Pesakh. 42 months later would bring it around to Sukkot again. Year 0 Messiah comes in the clouds – Year 31/2 Abomination desecrates – Year 7 the Messiah returns to Mt. Olivet. (Refer to The Return of the Messiah below).

“You shall make the fiftieth year set apart, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all the inhabitants of it: it shall be a jubilee to you; and you shall return every man to his possession, and you shall return every man to his family.”(Lev. 25:10). Jubilee #H3104 יוֹבֵל yoh-bail is the celebration of the seventh שמיטה sh-mee-tar (seven-year land Shabbat or sabbatical) plus one year. It is a release from all debts and all land sold and bought in the previous forty-nine years is to revert back to its original owners. This was to ensure that the land kept in the possession of the original tribe assigned by Yahuah. It can only be proclaimed by the Sanhedrin. It is my belief that Messiah will return on the first day of Sukkot during the Yobel. The word yobel comes from a Hebrew root word #H2986 יָבַל ya-bell that has the meaning of to be carried away or to be lead forth from captivity in Babylon (BDB). When the Messiah returns in the clouds, He will lead forth His people from captivity.

Depending upon a person’s opinion as to when all debts are to be cancelled, the Yovel may be when the Messiah returns in the clouds or at His steeping back onto earth. If the latter is the case, then the return in the clouds will be a sh`mittah year. Another possible root for יוֹבֵל *835e yoh-vabil is of the ram’s horn that is used to announce the yobel year. The more common word for the instrument is #H7782 שׁוֹפָר*2449c shoh-far. These words yoh-bail and shoh-far can be interchanged, “No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether it is animal or man, he shall not live. When the trumpet (yoh-bail)sounds long, they shall come up to the mountain.” (Exod. 19:13) and “It happened on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet (shofar); and all the people who were in the camp trembled.” (Exod. 19:16). The ram’s horn was used as a signaling device but there is no biblical indication, if any, that different notes, styles, lengths etc. were used to announce the Yobel Year. However, from the shophar blast of the seventh Sh`mmitah Year onwards, there would have been a heightened awareness of the approaching Yobel Year.

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“However, on the tenth day of this seventh month is Yom Kippur: it shall be a set apart convocation to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Yahuah.” (Lev. 23:27). כִּפֻּר יוֹם #H3117+#H3725 Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) is the day of personal and national repentance where all Yisra`el cry out to Yahuah for forgiveness. “Nevertheless, they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their back, and killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies. Therefore, you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviours who saved them out of the hand of their adversaries.” (Neh. 9:26, 27).

“Speak to the children of Yisra`el, and say, ‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of Sukkot for seven days to the Yahuah.’” (Lev. 23:34). Sukkot (also known as The Feast of Tabernacles or Booths) is the feast celebrating Yahuah coming to dwell with His people just after the Exodus. It is my belief the Messiah will return on the first day of this feast in response to Yisra`el’s cry of the previous HaYom Kippurim.

My belief is in the following chronology:-

Year 0: Yom Teruah (Feast of Trumpets); Aseret Yimei T`Shuva (Ten Days of Repentance); Yom HaKippurim (Day of Atonement); Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles), Snatching Away and signing of the 7 Year Covenant of Peace.

Year 31/2: Pesakh (Passover); Abomination That Causes Desolation and Ya`akob’s Troubles begin.

Year 7: Yom Teruah (Feast of Trumpets); Aseret Yimei T`Shuva (Ten Days of Repentance); Yom HaKippurim (Day of Atonement); Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles); Yobel and Return of the Messiah.

“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.” (Exod. 21:2). Seven years after the Snatching Away, the Messiah will return to earth to finally release those ‘slaves’ of the Troubles.

Why?

The word ‘tribulation’ comes from the Latin tribulare meaning to press (as in a wine or olive press) or oppress. From this comes the name of a threshing board or tribulum (www.wordnik.com ) that was a spiked board that was run over the grain to separate the ears from the stalk. “They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Yarden, and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.” (Gen. 50:10). All the family of Ya’akov (Jacob/ Yisra`el) leaves Egypt to bury their father. It is a time of great sorrow. As with all biblical references, the first entry has great importance, as is with this reference to threshing/tribulation.

“Dawid’s heart struck him after that he had numbered the people. Dawid said to the Yahuah, I have sinned greatly in that which I have done: but now, Yahuah, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.” (2 Sam. 24:10). Here, King Dawid realises that he has sinned against Yahuah and cries out to Him in repentance. Part of Dawid’s repentance is that he accepts a plague upon his people. Another part is that Dawid buys Aravnah’s threshing floor.

“He said, ‘Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Yitz`chak, and go into the land of Moriyah. Offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.’” (Gen. 22:2). Tradition has it that Aravnah’s threshing floor was on Mount Moriah, the exact area that Abraham was prepared to sacrifice Yitz`chak (Isaac). This place was to become the site of the first temple built by Dawid’s son, Shlomo (Solomon).

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Therefore, the place of repentance becomes centred on the Temple Mount. It was common practice for a threshing floor to be located on a hill top as this allows the wind to assist in the winnowing of the grain and chaff. #H7307 רוּחַ roo-akh – b)3) wind, breathe of air; g) Spirit of Yahuah *2131 roo-akh wind or breath as in a movement of air, mind After the separation of the ears and stalks, the ears are thrown up so that the wind separates the grain and chaff. “His winnowing fork is in his hand, and He will thoroughly cleanse His threshing floor. He will gather His wheat into the barn, but the chaff He will burn up with unquenchable fire.” (Matt. 3:12). Here the Master describes the separation of the righteous and the wicked as threshing a process aided by the Ruakh HaQodesh.

“Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.” (Judges 10:14 KJV). Yahuah mocks the wicked in that He knows that other gods cannot help them. The wicked made their choice when they went after false gods. By inference, the righteous had also made their choice when they went after the Messiah by whom only they can be saved. “Yahuah, in trouble have they visited you; they poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.” (Isa. 26:16). Whatever the cause, Yahuah was chastising His people who in turn cried out to Him for help. “These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.” (Matt. 25:46). The Ya`akob’s Trouble are not a form of punishment as punishment occurs only after Judgement.

“For Yahuah so loved the world, that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. For Yahuah did not send His Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through Him.” (John 3:16, 17). Yahuah spared nothing in order that every person should be saved. “For I do not desire, brothers, to have you ignorant of this mystery, so that you will not be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Yisra`el, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in, and so all Yisra`el will be saved…” (Rom. 11:26, 27a).

“For this is good and acceptable in the sight of Yahuah our Saviour; who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.”(1 Tim. 2:4, 3). From the very moment that Adam sinned, Yahuah initiated His divine plan of salvation. The five Books of Moses (Gen. to Duet.); the Prophets (Joshua to Malachi); the Writings (Psa. to 2 Chrons.); the Good News Accounts (Matt. to John); Acts; the Epistles (Rom. To Jude) and even the Revelation are all salvation documents. Prophetic oracles, Messiah’s birth, ministry, death and resurrection and the lives of untold numbers of saints all testify to the salvation made available to all people. However, it is my belief that the Snatching Away will be the greatest single evangelical not salvation (soteriological) in history event whereby people turn back to Yahuah.

Although the greatest soteriological event must be the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Messiah Yahusha, the event led immediately to very few people being saved. It did of course prove to be the only event that can bring about salvation. Ya`akob’s Trouble were Yahuah final events to reconcile mankind to Himself but the primary reason was punishment of those who accepted the way of the Adversary in spite of all that has been brought about.

“but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of Yahuah is finished, as He declared to His servants, the prophets.”(Rev. 10:7). Once the Messiah returns and steps upon Mount Olives, there will be no other opportunity by which mankind can be saved.“I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and He who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness He judges and makes

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war. He has on His garment and on His thigh a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND MASTER OF MASTERS.” (Rev.19:11, 16). In His mercy, Yahuah returns to earth in the form of the Messiah (Barron p.495), as Mashiach ben Dawid. This signifies the end of Ya`akob’s Trouble.

Who?

“But when in their distress they turned to the Yahuah, the `Elohiym of Yisra`el, and sought Him, He was found of them.” (2 Chron. 15:4). In the passage (2 Chron. 15:1-19) all the peoples of the area are mentioned. Yahudah (Judah) and Binyamin (Benjamin) are the southern tribes created after the rift caused following Shlomo’s (Solomon’s) death. The centre of these two tribes was Yerushalayim (Jerusalem/Zion). This is then followed by Yisra`el representing the remaining ten northern tribes. All the inhabitants of the countries refer to all the surrounding Gentile countries. Imagine a stone being dropped into a pond. The greatest amplitude or force of wave is at the centre of the splash. As the ripples spread out, the amplitude decreases until there is virtually no wave at the extremes. It is my belief that the greatest force of the Trouble is for those inhabitants of Yerushalyim and immediate surrounding areas. These had the greatest part of the Master’s teaching and also the place of His execution. It was and forever will be the place of the spiritual leadership of Yisra`el. Thus, these people had the greatest revelation and should have behaved in a more righteous manner. However, this does not exclude the other areas and tribes, but the outpouring of Yahuah `Elohim’s wrath is lessened for the Gentile nations.

Where?

“And the first angel went, and poured out his vial upon the earth…” (Rev.16:2a KJV). “And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea…” (Rev.16:3a KJV). “And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.” (Rev. 16:4 KJV). “And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.” (Rev. 16:8 KJV). “And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast…” (Rev. 16:10a KJV). “And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates…” (Rev.16:12a KJV). Yahuah’s wrath is poured out unto the entire world. However, the greatest outpouring will take place at the centre of all Creation, Yersushalayim (Jerusalem).

The Return of the Messiah

“Immediately after the troubles of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. He will send out His angels with a great sound of a shofar, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.” (Matt. 24:29-31). At the end of the Trouble, there will be two types of people who survived; the nations comprising of all non-Believers and Yisra`el comprising of all Believers, both Jewish and Gentile.

“It will happen in that day, that living waters will go out from Yerushalayim; half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea; in summer and in winter will it be. It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Yerushalayim will go up from year to year to worship the King,

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Yahuah of Hosts, and to keep the feast of Sukkot.” (Zech. 14:8, 16). In the discussion above on the beginning of the Ya`akob’s Trouble, the cycle of events of Danyi`el’s 70^th. week start and end at Sukkot. The prophet Z’kharyah (Zechariah) explains what happens “in that day” as “living waters” flow out of Jerusalem. “O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, [and] they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.” (Jer. 17:13 KJV). “Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Yahusha stood and cried out, ‘If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.’ But He said this about the Ruakh, which those believing in Him were to receive. For the Ruakh HaQodesh was not yet given, because Yahusha was not yet glorified.” (John 7:37-39). Yochanan recalls the last Sukkot the Master celebrated. Here the Master quotes from Yirmeyahu and likens Himself to the “fountain of living waters” out of which flows the Ruakh HaQodesh. When true peace is finally ushered in with the Millennial Kingdom, all the nations will come up to Yerushalayim to celebrate “that day”.

“In that day (Yom la–Yahuah) I will raise up the tent of Dawid who is fallen, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;” (Amos 9:11). Tent is #H5521 סֻכָּה*1492d soo-kar (plural soo-koat). “Yahuahwill create over the whole habitation of Mount Tziyon, and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy. There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.” (Isa. 4:5, 6). The word ‘canopy’ #H2646 *710b חֻפָּה Khu-pahcanopy or covering over a nuptial bed. It is my belief that on the Day of Yahuah’s Wrath, He will protect His people by Flame and Smoke as He did in the Wilderness. This will form the covering for the celebration of the union of the Messiah and His Bride. The ‘tent of Dawid’ could well be a cleansed Yerushalayim or the mishkan and its immediate surroundings.

“Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they [also] which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.” (Rev.1:7 KJV). “and to give relief to you that are afflicted with us, when the Master Yahusha is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,” (2 Thess. 1:7). “This Yahusha, who was received up from you into the sky will come back in the same way as you saw Him going into the sky.” (Acts 1:11). The Messiah returns in like manner as He departed and from whence He left (Barron p. 496; Henry p.1593). His first foot-fall is back to the Mount of Olives from where He can survey the city of Yerushalayim and the effects of His judgement upon the city, symbolising the nation of Yisra`el as a whole.

When the Messiah Yahusha was resurrected it was with His new, physical body. It (the Body) was not immediately recognisable as the Master until He made Himself known, “But their eyes were kept from recognizing Him.” (Luke 24:16 cf John 20:17). The Body was physical, “He said to them, ‘What are you talking about as you walk, and are sad?’” (talks and walks (Luke 24:17 cf John 20:15)), eats, “While they still did not believe for joy, and wondered, He said to them, ‘Do you have anything to eat?’ They gave Him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb.” (Luke 24:41:42}, can be touched, “Then He said to T’oma, ‘Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand and put it into my side’” (John 20:27) but was

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capable of moving through locked doors, “After eight days again His disciples were inside, and T’oma was with them. Yahusha came, the doors being locked, and stood in the midst, and said, ‘Shalom be to you.’” (John 20:26). This new Body came into existence between the Master’s death and His appearance in the upper room. Hence, I believe that it came about at His resurrection. “For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, we will also be part of His resurrection;” (Rom. 6:5). When all of humanity is resurrected, all will have a new, physical body as the Messiah.

“…I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Yahusha, and for the word of Yahuah…They lived, and reigned with Messiah for the thousand years. …This is the first resurrection.” (Rev. 20:4, 5b). The Trouble’s martyrs will be raised up first. The martyrs receive their ‘new style’ body between the end of the Trouble and the start of the Millennial Kingdom. This can only be at the return of the Messiah. There are now three types of people; the nations and Yisra`el with both groups having the ‘old style’ of bodies and the martyrs with the Messiah having the ‘new style’ of physical bodies.

“for as the lightning, when it flashes out of the one part under the sky, shines to the other part under the sky; so will the Son of Man be in His day.” (Luke 17:24). Imagine the scene; throughout the world there descends a blackness irrespective of the time of day where there is no light at all; there is an unnatural silence; there is a great call of the shofar (trumpet blast); a light like sheet lightning seen throughout the world. Such is the return of the Messiah.

“I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and He who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness He judges and makes war… He is clothed in a garment sprinkled with blood. His name is called ‘The Word of Yahuah.’” (Rev. 19:11, 13). A Rider appears on a white horse and His name was the Word of Yahuah; logos theos (#G3056 λόγος lo-gos – 3) the Messiah Yahshua) + #G2316 θεόςthay-os – 2b) the Messiah. “The armies which are in heaven followed Him on white horses, clothed in white, pure, fine linen.” (Rev. 19:14). “For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will render to everyone according to his deeds.” (Matt. 16:27). “But when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the set apart angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory.” (Matt. 25:31). The Messiah returns to earth followed by the hosts of heaven. This does not refer to Believers as the hosts always refer to angelic beings.

“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he does not walk naked, and they see his shame. He gathered them together into the place which is called in Hebrew, Megiddo.” (Rev. 16:15, 16). This is the first of two gatherings.

This one is where Believers are brought together by Yahuah. Armageddon is the transliteration of the Hebrew Har-Magedon which means Hill or City of Megiddo. It is my belief that this gathering is to gather those persecuted through the Trouble to witness Yahuah’s wrath and the vindication of His people.

“It happened after this, that the children of Mo`av, and the children of `Ammon, and with them some of the Me`unim, came against Yehoshafat to battle. Yehoshafat feared, and set himself to seek to Yahuah; and he proclaimed a fast throughout all Yehudah.” (2 Chron. 20:1, 3).After Yahuah brought back His people from exile, the surrounding nations came against King Yehoshafat. This is a prophetic type of the situation the people of Yisra`el (both natural-born and grafted-in) will experience when the nations come up against Yerushalayim. Yehoshafat proclaimed a fast, but if, as suspected, this occurs at Yom HaKippurim, then True Yisra`el will already be fasting. A ‘dress rehearsal’ took place on 6^th. October 1973, when a coalition of Arab states attacked Yisra`el to be known as the Yom Kippur War 6^th-25^th. October 1973.

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“Yehoshafat stood in the assembly of Yehudah and Yerushalayim, in the House of Yahuah, before the new court; and he said, ‘Yahuah, the `Elohiym of our fathers, are you not `Elohiym in heaven? and are you not ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? and in your hand is power and might, so that none is able to withstand you…Our `Elohiym, will you not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that comes against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are on you.” (2 Chron. 20:5-12). This prayer of Yehoshafat carries on the prophetic type when the leader of True Yisra`el (whether of a political, religious or commercial status), stands defiantly before the desecrated sanctuary and the Anti-Messiah, and publicly cries out to Yahuah for deliverance.

When Yahudah came to the watch-tower of the wilderness, they looked at the multitude; and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the ground, and there were none who escaped.” (2 Chron. 20:1-24). When the king cried out to Yahuah, Yahuah `Elohiym heard him and delivered the people from their enemies. This is shown in the miraculous delivery of the Nation of Yisra`el during the Yom Kippur War (sidroth.org).

The valley in which the 2 Chron. massacre took place was just outside of Yerushalayim (#H3092 יְהוֹשָׁפָטYeh-ho-sha-fat – Yah has judged). Indeed, Yahuah had judged the nations. This valley, Emek (ay-mek) Yehoshofat, was not a geographical name but named after Yahuah’s decision and help. This could well be Nahal Qidron (Kidron or Cedron Valley) that separates the Temple Mount from the Mount of Olives. “I will gather all nations, And will bring them down into the valley of Yehoshafat; And I will execute judgment on them there for my people, And for my heritage, Yisra`el, whom they have scattered among the nations.” (Joel 3:2).

“On the fourth day they assembled themselves in the Valley of Berakha; for there they blessed Yahuah: therefore, the name of that place was called the Valley of Berakha to this day.” (2 Chron. 20:26). Whatever the original name of the valley was, it was renamed by the people עֵמֶק בְּרָכָה Emek Berakha (#H1294 בְּרָכָה be-ra-kar blessings).Sometime after King Yehoshafat’s death, this area was to become known as Emek Yehoshofat.

What was and will be a valley of blessings (בְּרָכָה עֵמֶק Emek Berakha) for the people of Yisra`el, was and will be a valley of judgement (עֵמֶק יְהוֹשָׁפָט Emek Yehoshafat) for the Nations.

“The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion: He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.” (Prov. 20:2). The nations cannot escape the judgement of their own actions. When talking about the end times, the Master taught that there would be a gathering of the nations and Believers. “Then the King will tell those on His right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.” (Matt. 25:34). “Then He will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and its angels.” (Matt. 25:41). There is a distinct separation between Believers and non-Believers made by Yahuah. Most biblical commentators refer to this as the Battle of Armageddon. However, it is my belief that, as in Yehoshofat’s day, it will be a massacre of the wicked witnessed by the righteous and His angels. This will include all those who have fled to the mountains and are brought out to witness the slaughter, “For I will gather all nations against Yerushalayim to battle; and the city will be taken…Then Yahuah will go out and fight against those nations, as when He fought in the day of battle. His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Yerushalayim on the east…You shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Atzel; yes, you shall flee, just like you fled from before the earthquake in the days of `Uzziyah king of Yehudah. Yahuah my `Elohiym will come, and all the set apart ones with you.” (Zech. 14:2-5).

“Behold, the day of Yahuah comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners of it out of it.” (Isa. 13:9). “The great day of Yahuah is near…That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress…a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness, a day of the shofar…and their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.” (Zeph. 1:14-17). “As the days of Noach were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man… and they did not know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.” (Matt. 24:37, 39). In the account of Noakh, the unrighteous were all swept away as punishment for their sins. Noach’s Ark is a type of the Messiah and all those who did not make use of the safety promised by Noach were killed. Likewise, all those who did not ‘make use’ of the safety promised by Yahuah through His Messiah, will also be wiped out. “…and from the wrath of the Lamb for the great day of His wrath has come; and who is able to stand?” (Rev. 6:16b, 17). This day of wrath is the day when the Messiah returns and it is my belief that all the enemies of Yahuah’s people will be annihilated in one twenty-four hour day.

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“It happened after this, that the children of Mo`av, and the children of `Ammon, and with them some of the Me`unim, came against Yehoshafat to battle. Yehoshafat feared, and set himself to seek to Yahuah; and he proclaimed a fast throughout all Yehudah.” (2 Chron. 20:1, 3). After Yahuah brought back His people from exile, the surrounding nations came against King Yehoshafat. This is a prophetic type of the situation the people of Yisra`el (both natural-born and grafted-in) will experience when the nations come up against Yerushalayim. Yehoshafat proclaimed a fast, but if, as suspected, this occurs at Yom HaKippurim, then True Yisra`el will already be fasting. A ‘dress rehearsal’ took place on 6^th. October 1973, when a coalition of Arab states attacked Yisra`el to be known as the Yom Kippur War 6^th-25^th. October 1973.

“Yehoshafat stood in the assembly of Yehudah and Yerushalayim, in the House of Yahuah, before the new court; and he said, ‘Yahuah, the `Elohiym of our fathers, are you not `Elohiym in heaven? and are you not ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? and in your hand is power and might, so that none is able to withstand you…Our `Elohiym, will you not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that comes against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are on you.” (2 Chron. 20:5-12). This prayer of Yehoshafat carries on the prophetic type when the leader of True Yisra`el (whether of a political, religious or commercial status), stands defiantly before the desecrated sanctuary and the Anti-Messiah, and publicly cries out to Yahuah for deliverance.

The valley in which the 2 Chron. massacre took place was just outside of Yerushalayim (#H3092 יְהוֹשָׁפָטYeh-ho-sha-fat – Yah has judged). Indeed, Yahuahhad judged the nations. This valley, Emek (ay-mek) Yehoshofat, was not a geographical name but named after Yahuah’s decision and help. This could well be Nahal Qidron (Kidron or Cedron Valley) that separates the Temple Mount from the Mount of Olives. “I will gather all nations, And will bring them down into the valley of Yehoshafat; And I will execute judgment on them there for my people, And for my heritage, Yisra`el, whom they have scattered among the nations.” (Joel 3:2).

“On the fourth day they assembled themselves in the Valley of Berakha; for there they blessed Yahuah: therefore, the name of that place was called the Valley of Berakha to this day.” (2 Chron. 20:26). Whatever the original name of the valley was, it was renamed by the people עֵמֶק בְּרָכָה Emek Berakha (#H1294 בְּרָכָה be-ra-kar blessings). Sometime after King Yehoshafat’s death, this area was to become known as Emek Yehoshofat.

What was and will be a valley of blessings (בְּרָכָהעֵמֶק Emek Berakha) for the people of Yisra`el, was and will be a valley of judgement (עֵמֶק יְהוֹשָׁפָט Emek Yehoshafat) for the Nations.

“The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion: He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.” (Prov. 20:2). The nations cannot escape the judgement of their own actions. When talking about the end times, the Master taught that there would be a gathering of the nations and Believers. “Then the King will tell those on His right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.” (Matt. 25:34). “Then He will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and its angels.” (Matt. 25:41). There is a distinct separation between Believers and non-Believers made by Yahuah. Most biblical commentators refer to this as the Battle of Armageddon. However, it is my belief that, as in Yehoshofat’s day, it will be a massacre of the wicked witnessed by the righteous and His angels. This will include all those who have fled to the mountains and are brought out to witness the slaughter, “For I will gather all nations against Yerushalayim to battle; and the city will be taken…Then Yahuah will go out and fight against those nations, as when He fought in the day of battle. His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Yerushalayim on the east…You shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Atzel; yes, you shall flee, just like you fled from before the earthquake in the days of `Uzziyah king of Yehudah. Yahuah my `Elohiym will come, and all the set apart ones with you.” (Zech. 14:2-5).

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“Behold, the day of Yahuah comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners of it out of it.” (Isa. 13:9). “The great day of Yahuah is near…That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress…a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness, a day of the shofar…and their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.” (Zeph. 1:14-17). “As the days of Noakh were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man… and they did not know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.” (Matt. 24:37, 39). In the account of Noakh, the unrighteous were all swept away as punishment for their sins. Noakh’s Ark is a type of the Messiah and all those who did not make use of the safety promised by Noakh were killed. Likewise, all those who did not ‘make use’ of the safety promised by Yahuah through His Messiah, will also be wiped out. “…and from the wrath of the Lamb for the great day of His wrath has come; and who is able to stand?” (Rev. 6:16b, 17). This day of wrath is the day when the Messiah returns and it is my belief that all the enemies of Yahuah’s people will be annihilated in one twenty-four hour day.

“Behold, the days come, says Yahuah, that I will punish all those who are circumcised in their uncircumcision: Mitzrayim (Egypt), and Yahudah, and Edom, and the children of `Ammon, and Mo`av, and all that have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Yisra`el are uncircumcised in heart.” (Jer. 9:25, 26). “since there is one Messiah who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.” (Rom. 3:30). All non-Believers perish because ultimately, they all rebelled against Yahuah and ignored His warnings throughout all the ages. It will not benefit non-believing Yisra`elites to try to claim salvation through Abraham. The corpses are left in situ but do not decay as a witness to the righteousness of Yahuah.

“He gathered them together into the place which is called in Hebrew, Megiddo…The seventh poured out its bowl…There were lightnings, sounds and thunders; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since there were men on the earth, so great an earthquake, so mighty…Great hailstones, about the weight of a talent, came down out of the sky on people. People blasphemed Yahuah because of the plaque of hail, for this plaque is exceedingly severe.” (Rev. 16:16-21). This coincided with the opening the seventh seal and sounding of the seventh trumpet. “He who blasphemes the name of Yahuah, he shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him: the foreigner as well as the native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.” (Exod. 24:16).

All the plagues, famines, wars, pestilence and trials through Ya`akob’s Trouble only caused non-Believers to curse the Name of Yahuah. This continual blasphemy could not go unpunished by Yahuah. The punishment for blaspheme is stoning, hence the giant hail judgement.

“I will send a fire on Magog, and on those who dwell securely on the coastlands; and they shall know that I am Yahuah.” (Exod. 39:6).When Gog brings his armies against Yisra`el, they are destroyed in the fields where they stand. Also, judgement will be brought against all those who support the invasion, including all the families. “Now Korach, the son of Yitzhar, the son of Kehat, the son of Levi, with Datan and Aviram, the sons of Eli`av, and On, the son of Pelet, sons of Re`uven, took men: and they rose up before Moshe, with certain of the children of Yisra’el, two hundred fifty princes of the congregation… and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who appertained to Korach, and all their goods.” (Num. 16:1, 2, 32).

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The Forty-Five Days

“From the time that the continual burnt offering shall be taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred ninety days. Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred thirty-five days.” (Dan. 12:11, 12). As the Messiah Yahusha returns 1290 days after the Sanctuary is violated there is a further 45 days during which the Bible remains silent. This will be a time when the earth will only be populated by Believers who have just witnessed the Messiah’s return and the destruction of all non-Believers, including family and friends.

“It shall happen, that from one new moon to another, and from one Shabbat to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, says Yahuah. They shall go forth, and look on the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring to all flesh.” (Isa. 66:23, 24). These are the very last words recorded of Yesha`yahu’s prophecy. They come at the very end of a passage referring to the End Times. All Believers will have to come to terms with the great loss of life.

Jewish tradition has all mourners rending an undergarment as a sign of grief. A period of ‘sitting שבעה shiva’ last for 7 days. However, this is interrupted by the Festival of Sukkot.

On the Eighth Day of Celebration (after Sukkot – שמיני עצרתSh’mini Atzeret) the Messiah Yahusha calls all His people in Yisra`el to a special and intimate festival, “Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahuah. On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahuah. It is a solemn assembly; you shall do no regular work.” (Lev. 23:36). At the end of the second week, it is the first day of a new month חֶשְׁוָן Cheshvan. The first day of any month is declared when the new moon is first visible. This is called ראש חודש Rosh Chodesh or the Head of the Month and is recognised as day of spiritual renewal (it is not a ‘new’ moon but is the same moon renewed) and a day of remembrance. It is also a day of reverence, worship and holiness (FFOZ).

The Jewish sages called this month מַרְחֶשְׁוָן Marcheshvan meaning Bitter Month as it is usually the only month without a high or set apart day. The 1^st. Cheshvan is traditionally the day that the Flood commenced and the day of Rachel’s death and Binyamin birth. Binyamin was the only son of Ya`akob that was born in the Promised Land and has come to represent the completion of the State of Yisra`el. Both the Flood and Rachel’s death and Binyamin’s birth are a type describing the descent into darkness that created the potential for future life (www.aish.com ).

30 days (שלושים shloshim) after the destruction of all non-Believers one complete lunar cycle is completed. This is the usual time when mourners repair their rent inner garments and come out of mourning. It is this time that I believe that all the dead are consumed by fire as in the case of the rebellions of Nabad and Abihu, “And fire came forth from before Yahuah, and devoured them, and they died before Yahuah.” (Lev. 10:2).

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If the chronology above is correct then the 45th. day after the Messiah Yahusha’s return will be the first day כסלו Kislev and will be celebrated as the start of a new life. The first day (first sliver of the moon’s crescent) is considered as a sign of re-birth. The month of Kislev is considered by some as the Month of Miracles (www.chabad.org ) and on the 25th. day there will be a global celebration as the Sanctuary is re-dedicated after the two months of cleansing. This is yet another מוֹעֵד moedim, one that has been celebrated as חנוכה Hanukkah since the re-dedication of the Second Temple in the 2^nd. Century B.C.E. (www.hebcal.com/chanukkah ). Kislev (as with all the month names) are derived from the Babylonian Calendar with the root having the possible meanings (www.hebrews4christians.com/Kislev):

Month of Dreams – this comes from the reading cycle Parashot Vayishlach, Vayeshev and Miketz (Gen. 32:4(3)-44:17) that includes nine dreams. It also introduces Yosef who was called the ‘master of dreams’ by his brothers and later on pharaoh called him Tzofnat Paneakh (Decipherer of Secrets)

Month of Hope – #H3689 *1011a כֶּסֶל ke-cell meaning a hope that arises from completely trusting in someone or something.

There is a traditional view that the original Mishkan was completed in this month (www.thinkingtorah.com). As with Hanukkah, this would mean that the both dedications occur in Kislev.

For all Believers who have come through Ya`akob’s Trouble, the Messiah’s return and the destruction of all non-Believers, there will be the reward of entering into the Millennial Kingdom.

The Millennial Kingdom

“It shall happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a place for burial in Yisra`el, the valley of those who pass through on the east of the sea; and it shall stop those who pass through: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude; and they shall call it The Valley of Hamon-Gog. Seven months shall the house of Yisra`el be burying them, that they may cleanse the land.”(Eze. 39:11). Yechezk`el describes the immediate aftermath of the destruction of the nations that came up against Yisra`el. All trade routes in Yisra`el would be to the east of the Great Sea (Mediterranean) so it would indicate that the mention of a specific valley by this description would be redundant. Through Emek Yehoshofat (Valley of Yehoshofat/Kiddron Valley)runs a main trading route from north to south on the east side of Yerushalayim (www.bible-history.com/geography).

It is my belief that as the destruction of the armies of the nations will place in Emek Yehoshofatthen their burial would also be in this valley. “He (Hiram) made the cast metal ‘Sea’ circular, seventeen-and-a-half feet from rim to rim…” (1 Kgs. 7:23a CJB). When Shlomo had the Temple built, he had a massive bronze laver placed in the Temple court. Due to its immense size, it was called a ‘sea’ #H3220 *871a יָם yarm. This is the same word used by Yechezk`el and would have been a well-known part of the Temple furniture in the prophet’s day. The seven months required to cleanse the land would begin the day after the massacre and include the 45 days referred to by Dani`el. The 45 days would be taken to specifically cleanse the mishkan and its immediate surroundings, followed by a further 165 days burying the dead in the valley.

“I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.” (John 10:10b). The promise by the Master in this verse is that He came so that Believers can have a life over and exceeding anything that non-Believers can expect. This is the fulfilment of this promise.

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“He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and haSatan…and bound it for a thousand years, and cast it into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that it should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished. After this, it must be freed for a short time.” (Rev. 20:2, 3). The definite article ‘the’ before thousand years signifies a specific time haSatan is held captive.

“The rest of the dead did not live until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.”(Rev. 20:5). Verse 3 tells of the nations once more being alive. This will be those born just before or during the Trouble or during the Millennial Kingdom but have not accepted the Messiah as Saviour. These will have the ‘old style’, physical body. Due to sin being held captive (with haSatan) the corruptive effects of sin will not be present. V4 now tells of Yisra`el comprising of Believers alive at the end of the Trouble and the resurrected martyrs. By inference, those non-Believers killed during the Trouble (and all Believers and non-Believers who died throughout history) remain dead until after the thousand years when all humanity will be raised up at the end of the Millennial Kingdom.

“There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child shall die one hundred years old… The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent’s food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my set apart mountain, says Yahuah.” (Isa. 65:20-25). In this passage, the prophet gives us a brief glimpse of the Millennial Kingdom. With haSatan bound for a time, there is no tension between sin and righteousness and mankind lives in a period of peace, prosperity and long life. This is the true definition of #H7965 שָׁלוֹם shalom.

The lifespan of people will return to that of before the Flood. Everyday life continues for those alive at Messiah’s return. “They shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves…” (Eze. 44:25a). There will be death during this time. “…they, and their children, and their children’s children, forever: and David my servant shall be their prince for ever.” (Eze. 37:25b). This tells that the people where reproducing and dying; death has yet to be finally defeated (www.matthewmcgee.org/millen).

“It brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tent.” (Eze. 41.1). In this extensive passage (Eze. 40:1 – 47:12) reference is made to a temple. The word ‘temple’ is #H1964 הֵיכַל hay-khal that is the part of the temple connecting the entrance to the Qadosh Qadoshim (blueletterbible/Gesenius’ Lexicon). *493 hay-khalis rendered as the dwelling place of an earthly king but also refers to the true Temple of Yahuah in heaven. This entire passage is often referred to as The End Times Temple. Yekhezk`el (Ezekiel 40-44) describes in minute detail a new Temple that is to be built. It could not refer to the original Shlomo Temple as the prophet is talking of a future event and not describing the original Temple. The only Temple to be re-built was after the return of the exiles and the restoration work carried out by Herod the Great shortly before the birth of the Master.

The Hebrew for ‘tent’ is אֹהֶל #H168 oh-hel. In reference to Yahuah, this invariably means the area of the Sanctuary plus the Qadosh Qadoshim.

The detailed descriptions of the Second Temple were not according to the pattern of the vision Yahuah gave to Yekhezk`el. Therefore, THIS Temple must be built some time after the destruction of the Temple in 70 C.E. THIS Temple will occupy the centre of a land that has boundaries according to the covenant Yahuah made with Abraham (Gen. 15:18-21, 17:8). All this has not happened…..up to now.

The strong indicators that this is the Millennial Temple can be found (or not found) in the text.

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The first striking difference is in the unit of measurement. The cubit in this passage, is known as the Long or Royal Cubit, approximately 21” or 533 mm, and is not the usual cubit found in use, “These are the measures of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a handbreadth)” (Eze. 43:13).

“The glory of Yahuah went forth from over the threshold of the house, and stood over the K`ruvim. The K`ruvim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight when they went forth, and the wheels beside them: and they stood at the door of the east gate of Yahuah’s house; and the glory of the `Elohiym of Yisra`el was over them above.” (Eze. 10:18, 19). Yekhezk`el was a witness to the departure of the Shekinah from the East Gate. Therefore, he was a witness to His return, “The glory of Yahuah came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.” (Eze. 43:4).

“HaRuakh took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the Glory of Yahuah filled the house.” (Ezek. 43:5). In relation to Yahuah, whenever the word house is used, it invariably means the Temple. Scripture calls the human body a temple (Yahusha/John 2:20, 21; Sha`ul 1 Cor. 3:6) and a tent (Sha`ul 2 Cor.5:1; Shim`on Kefa 2 Pt. 1:13) but never a house.

This verse also states that the Glory of Yahuah filled the house, yet Yekhezk`el noted a Man standing next to him. However, it is never said that any man, even the priests, could not minister within the cloud, (Exod. 40:35; 1 Kgs. 8:11; Rev. 15:8). Therefore, the Man mentioned must not have been an ordinary human being.

“I heard one speaking to me out of the house; and a man stood by me. He said to me, Son of man…” (Ezek. 43:6, 7a) This is further strengthened by the terminology by which the Man addressed the prophet, as Son of man, is the term Yahuah uses extensively when addressing Yekhezk`el, (Ezek. 2:1; 3:1; 4:1).

“He said to me, ‘Son of man, this is the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Yisra`el forever. The house of Yisra`el shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings in their high places;” (Ezek. 43:7). The Man states that this Temple was His physical dwelling place. This cannot be before the return of the Messiah, and so cannot be the place spoken of by Daniy`el, “Forces shall stand on his part, and they shall profane the sanctuary, even the fortress, and shall take away the continual burnt offering, and they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate.” (Dan. 11:31). The Man also states that He will live forever, and that His name was holy. It can only be the Messiah that fulfils both these statements.

In the whole Temple section (Ezek. 40:1-47:12), the minutiae lack one salient detail, there is no mention of the High Priest, nor the necessaryTabernacle or Temple furnishings, “the ark of the testimony with its poles, the mercy seat, the table, all its vessels, the show bread, the pure menorah, its lamps, even the lamps to be set in order, all its vessels, the oil for the light, the golden altar, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door of the Tent, the brazen altar, its grating of brass, its poles, all of its vessels, the basin and its base,” (Exod. 39:35-39). Could it be that the Man speaking to Yekhezk`el was the High Priest and Messiah for which all of these are but a type?

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Another consideration is to the dimensions attributed to, not only the Sanctuary andQodesh HaQodeshim, but to the associated Priests housing and Levite housing, known as the Terumah. This is almost eight square miles (Exod. 45:1-6). There is no current flat land on or near the Temple Mount. Therefore, there must be some form of catastrophic geological event that levels out the topography (youtube…vuo_4_oucvm), “His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Yerushalayim on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very great valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.” (Zech. 14:4).

“But the priest the Levites…and they shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood, says Yahuah`Elohiym:”(Eze. 44:15). The Temple sacrifices are restored. “It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Yerushalayim will go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahuah of Hosts, and to keep the feast of Sukkot.” (Zech. 14:16). “Speak to the children of Yisra`el, and say, ‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of Sukkot for seven days to Yahuah. You shall keep it a feast to Yahuah seven days in the year: it is a statute forever throughout your generations; you shall keep it in the seventh month.” (Lev. 23:34, 41). “In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Pesach, a feast of seven days; matzah shall be eaten.” (Eze. 45:21). Not only will the sacrifices be restored but the Feasts, Shabbatot (weekly for man and seven yearly for the land) and Yobels (Jubilee Years) will also be celebrated but without any symbolism required as the Messiah will be there (www.ffoz.org ).“I saw no temple in it, for Yahuah `Elohiym, Shaddai, and the Lamb, are its temple.” (Rev. 21:22). In Yochanan’s vision of the New Earth and New Yerushalem there is no temple. This is in contrast to the vision of Yechezk`el where the temple and all its services are restored. Therefore, the Temple of Yechezk`el must pass away along with the Old Earth.

“His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives…Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.” (Zech.14:4). “It will happen in that day, that living waters will go out from Yerushalayim; half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea; in summer and in winter will it be.” (Zech.14:8). The topography of Yisra`el changes with a new valley formed and a fountain of living waters flows half westwards to the Mediterranean Sea and half eastwards to the Dead Sea. This latter sea is finally capable of supporting fish. This fountain will never stop flowing, unlike present day rivers that are subject to natural rainfall conditions.

“There was given Him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him: His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.” (Dan. 7:14). The perfect form of government is set up: a theocracy headed by the King of Kings and Master of Masters. “…for Yahuah of Hosts will reign on Mount Tziyon, and in Yerushalayim…” (Isa. 24:23). The Kingdom will be ruled from Yerushalayim. “Yahusha said to them, ‘Most assuredly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of His glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Yisra`el.’” (Matt. 19:28). “If we endure, we will also reign with Him…” (2 Tim. 2:12). As King, the Messiah designates people to rule with Him.

What then will be the difference between the Millennial Kingdom and previous times?

Everyone entering (but not necessarily at the end of) the Millennial Kingdom will be a righteous person;

There will be an absolute abundance of blessings;

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The Torah will have its position of honour;

The Messiah will be there (www.ffoz.org ):

The End of History/Beginning of Eternity

“And after the thousand years, haSatan will be released from its prison, and it will come out to deceive the nations…to gather them together to the battle…Fire came down out of heaven from Yahuah, and devoured them.” (Rev. 20:7-9). After the thousand-year incarceration, haSatan is released and the season of shalom comes to an end. The only reason that I can think of the release of haSatan is that those non-Believers alive during the Millennial Kingdom many will be led astray. Gog and Magog do not have any clear interpretation. Gog could well be a title of the chief prince of Magog variously identified with Rosh/ Meshech and Tubal or some other Scythian tribe. The best estimate is that Gog is a title of anyone opposing Yahuah and this particular reference would be to some tribe in North Eastern Asia Minor.

There is no textual support for Russia, China, Japan, USA or other modern power. What is known is that he/them will be destroyed with haSatan (www.biblicalstudies.com). The Adversary may well remind Gog and the people of Magog of the destruction literally rained down upon them at the Second Coming and the Battle of Emek Yehoshofat. It would stir up anger against the Messiah and His people Yisra`el in order to cause the final battle.

“The devil that deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulphur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.” (Rev. 20:10). This is the final incarceration of haSatan.

“I saw a great white throne, and Him who sat on it… I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works. The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and She`ol gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works.” (Rev. 20:11-13). The Great White Throne Judgement from where all mankind is sent to live with Yahuah and peace or to everlasting torment (cf. Sin, Judgement and Punishment and Righteousness, Obedience and Rewards for a fuller study of eternity). Immediately prior to the Judgement the following people were alive: the nations comprising of those people that lived through the Millennial Kingdom but not being saved (‘old style’ bodies); Yisra`el comprising of the Troubles’ martyrs (‘new style’ bodies) and those accepting the Messiah as Saviour during the Millennial Kingdom (‘old style’ bodies). At the Judgement all of humanity’s dead will be raised up with the ‘new style’ bodies and all those coming through the Millennial Kingdom with the ‘old style’ bodies will have them instantly changed into the ‘new style’, physical bodies. This would be similar to those Believers that were alive at the Snatching Away. It is with this ‘new style’ bodies that humanity will appear before the Judgement Throne and enter eternity to peace or torment.

Yahuah bless you and keep you,

Yahuah make His face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you,

Yahuah lift up His face toward you and give you peace.

All glory be to Yahuah,

Ameyn.

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In using these references, it is in no way agreeing to or condoning the theological viewpoint of the authors.

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HNV The Hebrew Names Version is based off the World English Bible, an update of the American Standard Version of 1901. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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King James Version (KJV) Outside of the United Kingdom, the KJV is in the public domain. Within the United Kingdom, the rights to the KJV are vested in the Crown. This Bible is printed and published by Cambridge University Press, the Queen’s royal printer, under royal letters patent. The text commonly available now is actually that of the 1769 revision, not that of 1611. The text used by BLB is the current 1769 edition.

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