What does the Bible say about israel and the end times?

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The Bible teaches that God remains faithful to his covenant purposes for Israel, will judge evil, gather his people, and bring history to its fulfillment in Jesus Christ. The prophets foresee restoration, cleansing, and the outpouring of God's Spirit, as Ezekiel 36:24-28 and Ezekiel 11:17 proclaim, alongside the day of the Lord and final judgment in Joel 2:30-31, Joel 3:1-21, and Zechariah 14. Amos 9:14-15 promises secure restoration under God's care. Jesus warns of tribulation and calls his disciples to watchfulness in Matthew 24:15. Romans 11:1 insists that God has not rejected his people, while directing hope toward God's mercy in Christ. Faithful Christians differ on details, but all await Christ's victorious return and God's renewed creation.

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  • Amos 9:14-15

    [14] I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel, And they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them. They shall also make gardens, And eat the fruit of them. [15] I will plant them on their land, And they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them," says Yahweh your God.

  • Zechariah 14:1-21

    [1] Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your spoil will be divided in your midst. [2] For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city. [3] Then Yahweh will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. [4] His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem 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. [5] You shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azel; yes, you shall flee, just like you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Yahweh my God will come, and all the holy ones with you. [6] It will happen in that day, that there will not be light, cold, or frost. [7] It will be a unique day which is known to Yahweh; not day, and not night; but it will come to pass, that at evening time there will be light. [8] It will happen in that day, that living waters will go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea; in summer and in winter will it be. [9] Yahweh will be King over all the earth. In that day Yahweh will be one, and his name one. [10] All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up, and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin's gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the king's wine-presses. [11] Men will dwell therein, and there will be no more curse; but Jerusalem will dwell safely. [12] This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh will consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume away in their sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth. [13] It will happen in that day, that a great panic from Yahweh will be among them; and they will lay hold everyone on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand will rise up against the hand of his neighbor. [14] Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered together: gold, and silver, and clothing, in great abundance. [15] So will be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the donkey, and of all the animals that will be in those camps, as that plague. [16] It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of Hosts, and to keep the feast of tents. [17] It will be, that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn't go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Yahweh of Hosts, on them there will be no rain. [18] If the family of Egypt doesn't go up, and doesn't come, neither will it rain on them. This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike the nations that don't go up to keep the feast of tents. [19] This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that don't go up to keep the feast of tents. [20] In that day there will be on the bells of the horses, "HOLY TO YAHWEH;" and the pots in Yahweh's house will be like the bowls before the altar. [21] Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to Yahweh of Hosts; and all those who sacrifice will come and take of them, and cook in them. In that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of Yahweh of Hosts.

  • Ezekiel 36:24

    For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.

  • Joel 3:1-21

    [1] "For, behold, in those days, And in that time, When I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, [2] I will gather all nations, And will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; And I will execute judgment on them there for my people, And for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. They have divided my land, [3] And have cast lots for my people, And have given a boy for a prostitute, And sold a girl for wine, that they may drink. [4] "Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and Sidon, And all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head. [5] Because you have taken my silver and my gold, And have carried my finest treasures into your temples, [6] And have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, That you may remove them far from their border. [7] Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, And will return your repayment on your own head; [8] And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah, And they will sell them to the men of Sheba, To a faraway nation, For Yahweh has spoken it." [9] Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare war. Stir up the mighty men. Let all the warriors draw near. Let them come up. [10] Beat your plowshares into swords, And your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, "I am strong." [11] Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations, And gather yourselves together." Cause your mighty ones to come down there, Yahweh. [12] "Let the nations arouse themselves, And come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; For there will I sit to judge all the surrounding nations. [13] Put in the sickle; For the harvest is ripe. Come, tread, for the winepress is full, The vats overflow, for their wickedness is great." [14] Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near, in the valley of decision. [15] The sun and the moon are darkened, And the stars withdraw their shining." [16] Yahweh will roar from Zion, And thunder from Jerusalem; And the heavens and the earth will shake; But Yahweh will be a refuge to his people, And a stronghold to the children of Israel. [17] "So you will know that I am Yahweh, your God, Dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy, And no strangers will pass through her any more. [18] It will happen in that day, That the mountains will drop down sweet wine, The hills will flow with milk, All the brooks of Judah will flow with waters; And a fountain will come forth from the house of Yahweh, And will water the valley of Shittim. [19] Egypt will be a desolation, And Edom will be a desolate wilderness, For the violence done to the children of Judah, Because they have shed innocent blood in their land. [20] But Judah will be inhabited forever, And Jerusalem from generation to generation. [21] I will cleanse their blood, That I have not cleansed: For Yahweh dwells in Zion."

  • Matthew 24:15

    "When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

  • Romans 11:1

    I ask then, Did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

  • Ezekiel 11:17

    Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.

  • Joel 2:30-31

    [30] I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: Blood, fire, and pillars of smoke. [31] The sun will be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

  • Daniel 9:27

    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 come] one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, shall [wrath] be poured out on the desolate.

  • Ezekiel 36:24-28

    [24] For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land. [25] I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. [26] A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. [27] I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them. [28] You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.

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