Genesis 12:2
And I will make of thee [Abram]
a great nation [Israel]
, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.Scroll to the bottom of this thread link to see what a blessing the Jews have indeed been:
http://islamchristianforum.com/index.php?topic=494.0Exegesis of the Olivet Discourse:
http://www.beholdthebeast.com/matthew_24_olivet_discourse.htmMatthew 24:16
Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:Also See
Luke 21:20-21"into the mountains" (also a
term for kingdom in reference to Babylon)
And indeed Israel - the "woman" who brought forth the man child - did flee, for 1260 years:
Revelation 12:6 A
nd 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.http://islamchristianforum.com/index.php?topic=543.0The following report was chronicled near the zenith of the First Jihad as the Islamic armies moved up through Europe ".... according to one unidentified Arab, 'That army went through all places like a desolating storm.' sacking and capturing the city of Bordeaux, and then defeating the army of Duke Odo of Aquitaine at the Battle of the River Garonne - where the western chroniclers state, 'God alone knows the number of the slain'-[3] and Odo fled to Charles Martel, seeking help."
http://islamchristianforum.com/index.php?topic=557.0Matthew 24:17
Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:Matthew 24:18
Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.Matthew 24:19
And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!Matthew 24:20
But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:Even beyond Judea these instructions would aptly apply to all of the fallen cities and states where Christians and Jews were slaughtered and enslaved by Muslims during the 152 years (
5 prophetic months) of the first Jihad, that nearly conquered the whole world, until stopped in Tours France by Charles Martel in the
Battle of Tours.
Here's another place (
besides Daniel and others) the Jews were prophesied to be scattered:
Luke 21:24
And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.Jerusalem was
trodden down by the Gentiles from about 606 BC, until the Israelis retook the Holy City in 1967. But note that Jesus is talking about a Christian era gentile trodding in His future as evidenced by "shall be". 1967 marked the end of this great period of tribulation which began with the stoning of Stephen (since we are our brother John's companions in
THE tribulation) and many others and slaughter of a million Jews in 70 AD, the 132 AD slaughter of another 750,000 Jews, the 152 year slaughter of Christians and Jews of the Islamic first Jihad,
the Crusades, the Catholic Church persecution and murder of 4 to 20 million Christians, and the 8 million Jews, as well as many Christians, slain by the Nazis. Read
Fox's Book of the Martyrs or
Martyr's Mirror free online, for details.
When, in Jesus' future ("shall be") until 1967, was Jerusalem not controlled by - that is trodden by - gentiles?