Bible Discussion Thread

Zec.2.13-14 "Will the Real Israel show up?

What do we mean by the name Israel? The Spirit gives us the clear defintion to the word." And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed." (Gen.32.28) The nation having rejected the Word and the Son cannot be called as such. Prophets of God has called Israel is inclusive sense in the great many visions. We shall examine two passages:

Zec.2 "Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith theLord./And many nations shall be joined to theLordin that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that theLordof hosts hath sent me unto thee./And theLordshall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again./Be silent, O all flesh, before theLord: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.."Zec.2.10-13)Notice the line, "Shall choose Jerusalem again' refers to New Jerusalem.(Rev.21)

And again in Zec.14 "And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south./And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: and theLordmy God shall come, and all the saints with thee."(Zec.14.4-5)

This is with direct reference to Rev.11.13 "And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven."

We see 'the great valley where God places cherubim, "So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubim."(Gen.3.24)