Implausible And Unaware

Implausible and Unaware

Daymond Duck

On Sept. 9, 2024, one of my favorite Bible prophecy teachers, Hal Lindsey, pointed out that God’s promise to give Abraham and his descendants all the Promised Land (see Ezek. 19:7-8) seemed implausible (unreal, unbelievable, unlikely) for many centuries.

Lindsey said,

• With every century that the Jews remained dispersed around the world, the more implausible the promises seemed.
• That is, they seemed implausible… until God started to miraculously fulfill those promises (by causing the dispersed Jews to start returning to the land).

Lindsey asked a rhetorical question:

• How can today’s Israel be the renewed nation promised in prophecy?

Lindsey pointed out that the Bible answers this question.

>Israel would be brought back together and to the land. Then, at some point after being brought back, they would experience a national repentance.

>God said, “For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. 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 an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God” (Lindsey quoted Ezek. 36:24-25, but I have quoted Ezek. 36:24-28).

Lindsey added, “We don’t know the timing, but the order is clear — return, and then be cleansed.”

Lindsey noted that God repeated this sequence in Ezek. 37 (return to the Promised Land from the heathen nations in unbelief first, repent and be saved later – Ezek. 36:24)....

Lindsey pointed out that Israel is back in the Promised Land, that they have not gotten saved (received the breath of life) yet, but it is coming.

The next day (Sept. 10, 2024), another one of my favorite Bible prophecy teachers, Jonathan Brentner, wrote,

• If I were to select one word that sums up most people today, it would be “unaware.”
• Most believers pursue their aspirations with little or no understanding of the times in which they live.

Brentner turned to the Scriptures and something Jesus said about the signs of His coming (Note: Brentner quoted Matt. 24:37-39, but I have added Matt. 24:32-36).

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