Are we at the End?

The LORD has really opened my eyes to some incredible things in His word! This is one of my more recent posts, the description of which is so amazing, I thought you wuld need to see it too! I truly believe we're on the razor edge of His return! Our God reigns, Hallelujah!

“Look! He is coming
with the clouds,
and every eye swill see Him, including those who pierced
Him.
And all the families of the earth
will mourn over Him. This is certain. Amen. (Rev. 1:7)

The Bride, the wife of the Lamb:
“The one of the seven angels, who had held the seven bowls filled wit the seven last plagues, came and spoke with me: ‘Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.’ He then carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, arrayed with God’s glory. Her radiance was like a very precious stone, like a jasper stone, bright as crystal. The city had a massive high wall, with 12 gates. Twelve angels were at the gates; on the gates names were inscribed, the names of the 12 tribes of the sons of Israel. There were three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west. The city wall had 12 foundations, and on them were the 12 names of the Lamb’s 12 apostles…
I did not see a sanctuary in it, because the Lord God almighty and the Lamb are its sanctuary. The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because God’s glory illuminates it, and its lamp is the Lamb. The natons will walk in its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. Each day its gates will never close because it will never be night there. They will bring the glory and honor of the nations into it. Nothing profane will ever enter it; no one who does what is vile or false, but only those written in the Lamb’s book of life.”
(Rev. 21:9-14, 22-27)

“He led me to the gate… and I saw the glory of the God of Israel coming from the east… While the man was standing beside me, I heard someone speaking to me from the temple. He said to me, ‘Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place for the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the Israelites forever.” (Ezek. 43:1,6-7a)
· this passage is speaking of the future temple, when God inhabits it forevermore. God’s glory returns to dwell here.

12 You are to tell him: This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Here is a man whose name is Branch; He will branch out from His place and build the Lord’s temple. 13 Yes, He will build the Lord’s temple; He will be clothed in splendor and will sit on His throne and rule. There will also be a priest on His throne, and there will be peaceful counsel between the two of them. 14 The crown will reside in the Lord’s temple as a memorial to Heldai, Tobijah, Jedaiah, and Hen son of Zephaniah. 15 People who are far off will come and build the Lord’s temple, and you will know that the Lord of Hosts has sent Me to you. This will happen when you fully obey the Lord your God.” Zech 6:12-15 (HCSB)
· Jesus, at his return, fills the office of priest, king and prophet, three in one.

3 Then the Lord will go out to fight against those nations as He fights on a day of battle. 4 On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east. The Mount of Olives will be split in half from east to west, forming a huge valley, so that half the mountain will move to the north and half to the south. 5 You will flee by My mountain valley, for the valley of the mountains will extend to Azal. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones with Him. Zech 14:3-5 (HCSB)

· Verse 5. ye shall flee to the valley -- rather "through the valley," as in 2Sa 2:29. The valley made by the cleaving asunder of the Mount of Olives (Zec 14:4) is designed to be their way of escape, not their place of refuge [MAURER]. JEROME is on the side of English Version. If it be translated so, it will mean, Ye shall flee "to" the valley, not to hide there, but as the passage through which an escape may be effected. The same divinely sent earthquake which swallows up the foe, opens out a way of escape to God's people.—Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
· saints -- holy angels escorting the returning King (Mt 24:30, 31 Jude 1:14); and redeemed men (1Co 15:23 1Th 3:13 1Th 4:14). Compare the similar mention of the "saints" and "angels" at His coming on Sinai (De 32:2, 3 Ac 7:53 Ga 3:19 Heb 2:2). Phillips thinks Azal is Ascalon on the Mediterranean. An earthquake beneath Messiah's tread will divide Syria, making from Jerusalem to Azal a valley which will admit the ocean waters from the west to the Dead Sea. The waters will rush down the valley of Arabah, the old bed of the Jordan, clear away the sand-drift of four thousand years, and cause the commerce of Petra and Tyre to center in the holy city. The Dead Sea rising above its shores will overflow by the valley of Edom, completing the straits of Azal into the Red Sea. Thus will be formed the great pool of Jerusalem (compare Zec 14:8 Eze 47:1, &c. Joe 3:18). Euphrates will be the north boundary, and the Red Sea the south. Twenty-five miles north and twenty-five miles south of Jerusalem will form one side of the fifty miles square of the Lord's Holy Oblation (Eze 48:1-35). There are seven spaces of fifty miles each from Jerusalem northward to the Euphrates, and five spaces of fifty miles each southward to the Red Sea. Thus there are thirteen equal distances on the breadth of the future promised land, one for the oblation and twelve for the tribes, according to Eze 48:1-35. That the Euphrates north, Mediterranean west, the Nile and Red Sea south, are to be the future boundaries of the holy land, which will include Syria and Arabia, is favored by Ge 15:8 Ex 23:31 De 11:24 Jos 1:4 1Ki 4:21 2Ch 9:26 Isa 27:12; all which was partially realized in Solomon's reign, shall be antitypically so hereafter. The theory, if true, will clear away many difficulties in the way of the literal interpretation of this chapter and Eze 48:1-35.
—Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

9 On that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
10 “Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the house of David and the residents of Jerusalem, and they will look at Me whom they pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly for Him as one weeps for a firstborn. Zech 12:9-10 (HCSB)
· This brings into fulfillment Romans 11:
“The Liberator will come from Zion; He will turn away godlessness from Jacob. And this will be my covenant with them, when I take away their sins” (vv. 26,27)
“Now if their stumbling brings riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full number bring!” (Rom. 11:12)
The Bible, being an ethnographic book, meaning it’s written from the point of view of the author. “All the nations” referring to all the then known nations of the world. Today these are the Muslim nations of the Middle East, and to the farthest north, Russia (Magog).
Both Ezekiel and Zechariah speak of “all the nations” coming to make war against Israel, as today, those very nations are preparing for attack against Israel. Ezekiel tells us that God will bring Russia and her allies out against Israel, and then he will “display His glory among the nations” (Ezek. 39:21) as he fights against them to defend his chosen people, and in the sight of the world restore them and give them the ‘promised land’ of Israel.
Zechariah gives us the reason for the earthquake mentioned in Ezek. 38:19. He tells us that the LORD (Yahweh) Himself will stand on the Mount of Olives (Acts 1:11). When this happens the Mt. of Olives will split, thus lengthening the valley of Jehoshapat (Judgement~ Armagedon), also as a means of escape for His people.
Ezekiel says that “every man’s sword will be against his brother” (38:21). In Zechariah’s description, 13 On that day a great panic from the Lord will be among them, so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of one will rise against the other (Zech 14:13). After this battle, the after math of which is detailed in Ezek. 39:1-20, Zechariah tells us 10 “Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the house of David and the residents of Jerusalem, and they will look at Me whom they pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly for Him as one weeps for a firstborn” Zech 12:10 (HCSB). So this fulfills Romans 11:25-27.

For the Dispensationalist who holds to a rapture and 7 yr. tribulation, this is a problem, for Jerusalem still needs to go through a final ‘cleansing’ of her sins, a 1000 yr. millennial reign of Christ and a second war of Gog and Magog! Never mind the 2000 yrs. in the wilderness (nations) during which the abomination of desolation (the Dome of the Rock) has set in place (Dan. 12:11) in 688 AD. The time of the Gentiles, in which they tread under foot the city of Yahweh, was up in 1967, when Israel regained control of the holy land in the six-day war (Rev. 11:2).
Everything has been fulfilled, except the battle of Magog (Russia) coming at of the further most north against Israel. In this battle Jesus will fight against Russia and her hordes (Muslim forces), will stand upon the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and at the sounding of the trumpet will send his legions of angels to collect his people form the four corners of the earth. At this time, the eyes of the Jews will be opened (Rom. 11:25ff; Zechariah 12:10), they will recognize the One whom they pierced, and will grieve for not having recognized Him sooner.
It appears in Revelation ch. 11, after the sounding of this seventh and final trumpet (1 Corinthians 15:52), will come the great judgment, and the reward of the saints. Then God will dwell on earth with man and reign forever.