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Apocalyptic Righteousness – [VIDEO and TRANSCRIPT]

What kind of righteousness have we been brought into in Christ? In this segment Reggie probes the nature of Israel’s righteousness “in That Day”, and… by extension… our righteousness now.

From a January 2016 GFW Saturday night Bible Study, this Session was on Isaiah 17.

Full Transcript below:

Tom, it would be an interesting exercise to go through the prophets. Of course, actually, not just the Old Testament, because the New Testament is very clear that Jerusalem is the special object of Antichrist’s hatred, the treading under foot for 42 months. So this is not some Old Testament thing that a bunch of, you know, hyper literalists are latching on to here.

But this is everywhere. This is everywhere you read about the Day of the Lord. Everywhere.

Not only when that name, that word is particularly used, and it’s close associated terms in that day and in those days, etc. And then often the things that will be accomplished at that day are mentioned that have fulfillment in no other time. I mean, I know there’s some partial fulfillment throughout history, but.

So all roads lead to the Day of the Lord. And I just want to give a little story. It had to do with something that John Piper wrote some years back, and Art gave it to me, and Art was impressed with it, and I somewhat was, too.

Art said, what do you think of this? In other words, is he right? My answer was yes and no. Well, that was tentative at the time. Right now it would be a resounding no.

But it was very appealing because it asked this question, does Israel, in their present unbelief on this side of new covenant righteousness, do they have, and he used this term, talk about a slippery term. I don’t suggest at all that he did it consciously, of course, but it’s a disarming term. The word is, and some of you all may have heard this, does Israel in their present state have a quote-unquote divine right to the land? Well, first of all, that’s disarming, because how can you at once speak of grace and right? You know, there is no right, yet, you know, God has put his whole big picture together around one nation.

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The Mideast Crisis and the Witness of Prophecy

It should be no secret that before Israel’s final deliverance at the Lord’s return to Zion (Isa 59:20; Joel 3:16; Ro 11:26), the fledgling new nation, recently regathered back to the Land, yet in a state of unbelief (Jer 30:3; Eze 22:19-22; 38:8; Joel 3:1-2; Zeph 2:1-2) would pass through their greatest trial as a nation. 

Jeremiah would call this time of unequalled tribulation, “the time of Jacob’s trouble” compared to a woman in labor (Jer 30:6-7). Daniel would call it “a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time”, and Jesus would cite Daniel’s prophecy using nearly the same words, “For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be” (Mt 24:21).

This time would come in the “latter days” (Jer 30:24; Eze 38:16; Dan 10:14; 12:1), not only after a single generation of 70 years, as prophesied by Jeremiah (Jer 25:11-12; 29:10), but this time after “many generations” of Jewish absence and perpetual desolation of the Land” (Isa 61:4; Eze 36:4; 38:8). 

After this preliminary return in unbelief, but before the great, unparalleled trouble, several verses in the OT mention a dangerously deceptive false peace that would compromise Israel’s vigilance and be broken by the sudden and unexpected invasion of the last aggressor, called by several names in scripture but commonly known as the man of lawlessness or the Antichrist. 

Much could be said about this false peace that Isaiah calls Israel’s ill-fated “covenant with death and hell” (Isa 28:15, 18 with Eze 38:8, 11, 14; 39:26; Dan 9:27; 11:23; 1Thes 5:3), but until very recently, any realistic prospect of peace, even the illusion of peace, seemed an elusive, unrealistic dream. 

But since the advent of the “Abrahamic Accords”, and now with what appears the neutralization of the Iranian threat, a new unified partnership for peace has emerged that has put the unlikely dream into realistic reach. This is unprecedented! 

In 1Thes 5:3, Paul makes this statement that is familiar to the readers of the NT: 

“For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.”

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All Israel Shall Be Saved (Podcast and List of Scriptures) – [AUDIO]

Following our recent meeting, I gathered the below. Feel free to add to these lists. – Maor S.

Our task is to show what Paul had in mind, which is to show what the Prophets had in mind.

“And so all Israel will be saved,as it is written:

“The Deliverer will come out of Zion,
And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;” (Rom. 11:26)

Verses about All Israel saved in the day of the Lord after the GT being the remnant that survived the Sword of the Covenant:

(Click below for the list of verses & the link to the Podcast…)

The Glory of the Story Podcast [Audio]

Glory of the StorySam Parsons and Reggie Kelly have been working on a Podcast called “The Glory of the Story”.

The beauty of God’s work throughout history to glorify Christ
Glory of the Story explores the beauty that God has invested in the outworking of his story throughout history. We talk about the end times, eschatology, Israel, election, grace and most importantly God’s glory.

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2024 Online Convocation – The March of the Prophets

March 2024 Conference – ‘The March of the Prophets’, March 13th through March 17th… Guest Speakers included: ‘Reggie Kelly’, ‘Travis Bennett’, ‘Tom Quinlan & GFW’, ‘Fred London’, ‘Rob Weiss’, ‘David Hirsch’ and more…

ALL times are Eastern Standard Time

1. Travis Bennett – The Purpose of the Church – Lam 1:12
[ Recorded Video ]

2. Fred London – “Speak to Us Pleasant Words”
[ Recorded Video ][Fred’s Notes]

3. Reggie Kelly – The Olivet Key to the Daniel’s Prophecy of the End
[ Recorded Video ] Portions of THIS paper were read.
[ CHART ]

4. Rob Weiss – The Outcomes of the Day of the Lord
[ Recorded Video ] [Rob’s Notes]

5. God’s Foretold Work // Main Speaker: Reggie Kelly / Q&A – Critical Connections
[ Recorded Video ]

6. David Hirsch  – Let No One Deceive You
[ Recorded Video ]

7. Looking Back and Looking Forward
[ Recorded Video ]

Paul’s Mystery of the Rapture

Where in the OT is Paul getting his “last trump” and “twinkling of an eye”?

Paul knew the trumpet of Isa 27:12-13 (also Ps 47:5; Joel 2:1; Zeph 1:16-18) sounds at the same time the nation is being born “at once” / in “one day” in Isa 66:8 (with Ps 102:13; Eze 39:22; Zech 3:9; 12:10; 14:7). That is the same moment the AC is being destroyed in “one day” (Is 9:14; 10:17; 47:9) by the breath of the Messiah’s mouth / voice (Isa 11:4; 30:27-33; 31:8-9; 42:11-14; 66:6-8; Joel 3:16; Zeph 1:7, 14-18; Zech 9:14).

As Paul’s manifest use of the Septuagint’s translation of Isa 11:4 in 2Thes 2:8 makes clear, the AC is destroyed at the instant of the Lord’s return to judge the wicked, raise the dead, and assert His rod iron rule over the nations the “last trump” (1Cor 15:52; Rev 10:7; 11:15). It all lines up with the moment (“twinkling of an eye”) of His return like the lightning flashing across the sky (Mt 24:27, 29-31; Rev 1:7).

Obviously, the NT writers believe their OT, literally! They put the pieces together by the help and leading of the Holy Spirit. They are not advancing ‘new truth’ but unraveling the mystery of what stood written in the OT prophetic scriptures (Acts 26:22-23; Ro 11:25-29; 16:25-26; 1Pet 1:11). That’s the glory and compelling proof of the gospel, that it was all foretold!

Apocalyptic Evangelism Course (2002)

We have recently recovered some of the printed material from the Ben Israel Apocalyptic Evangelism Course announced in the Fall 2001 Newsletter. Please note the downloadable PDF’s next to each title. A couple of the article’s had already been published on the mysteryofisrael.org site.

04-14-11 Update: We have now made all articles viewable online for easier access to Scripture references.

08-23-22 Update: Originally posted on mysteryofisrael.org in 2011. More recently we have fixed all of the links and thought to bump it to the top again. We have also tagged a number of articles with the “Apocalyptic Evangelism” category.

Module 1:

  1. What is Apocalyptic Evangelism? [PDF]
  2. What Difference Does It Make How Christians View Prophecy? [PDF]
  3. The National Hope in Context [PDF] (part of a larger piece called
    The Historic Impasse Between Church and Synagogue”)
  4. The Hebraic View of Prophecy [PDF]
  5. The Significance of Jerusalem in Prophecy [PDF]

Module 2:

  1. Restoring the Context: Pt. 2 [PDF]
  2. The Key of the Mystery of Israel in the Reign of Grace [PDF]

For further information on the ongoing development of the Apocalytic Evangelism Course click/tap here.

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“The beauty of God’s work throughout history to glorify Christ
“Glory of the Story explores the beauty that God has invested in the outworking of his story throughout history. We talk about the end times, eschatology, Israel, election, grace and most importantly God’s glory.”

Check it out HERE.

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