>>509803768no, the ones in Israel are the Jews, that is why they got scattered and have been cursed and punished, cause they had Christ put to death, they're regathered because God is tired of them making Him look bad, but a remnant of them turn to Jesus when they're really worked over by Antichrist.
It's like, the descendants of the Pharisees are so prideful, that when they get suckerpunched and proven that the kingdom passed from them to the gentiles (as Jesus said it would) it'll be just unbearable for some.
But they do have to be the genetic descendants of those Pharisees. That list of curses in Deuteronomy 28.. it just plays in so well.
also like I keep bringing up Zechariah 12:10. It has to be the house of David that inhabits Jerusalem. So if the current Jews aren't that, then we're way off from the return of Jesus, but if they are the right people, the ones who pierced Jesus? Then we're close, like see in our lifetime close.
Persia has 4 kings, we're on King 2, King 3 and 4 rule at the same time (Daniel 8 depicts Persia as a 2 horned ram, horns represent leaders/kings, they are smashed by "Greece" (In Daniel's time Turkey was part of Greece) which is depicted as a Goat with one really big horn, that smashes Persia, and then Turkey becomes a great Empire, but then its horn (leader, the Caliph) gets destroyed, and 4 new nations are born out of it, and out of one of those nations comes "the little horn" (one of the names of the Antichrist, he starts out small)
So what I'm watching for is Khamenei to bite it, and then his successor to be joined by someone claiming to be the Shia Mahdi. It'll enrage the Sunni world. From then on? It's going to be pretty nuts.
Things are progressing really rapidly.
Wouldn't be surprised if by 2030 we're in the 70th week of Daniel (what some call the 7 year tribulation).