The Jewish people were gathered to Israel and told to remove the abominations

Ezekiel 11:17-18

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 “Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “I will gather you from the peoples, assemble you from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.”’  Ezekiel 11:17

The Lord God gathered the Jewish people in 1948 from all across the globe to give them a land and a king called the State of Israel. Why did He do this? Because as He said in the first verses of this chapter, “…for I know the things that come into your mind.” Ezekiel 11:5 At that time, God knew the Jewish people wanted to be together as a Jewish family, a family that rejected His Son Jesus Christ as their Messiah. They repeated the same words as the Israelites before them who wanted to be like the other nations instead of living in the will of God, “Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.” 1 Samuel 8:5

The Jewish people were gathered to the State of Israel just two years after the United Nations was established in 1945-46. The UN was established immediately after WW2 and brought the government of the beast with it as explained in Daniel 8. This would be the beginning of God’s judgments against Israel, as there has been 18 wars involving Israel since 1948. There was even a war in 1948. Click here for a list of those wars and scroll close to the bottom of the page.

 “And they will go there, and they will take away all its detestable things and all its abominations from there.” Ezekiel 11:18 

When the Jewish people gathered to the State of Israel, they conformed their territory to the customs of their Jewish culture. They took everything away that was detestable and an abomination according to their Jewish customs. That is how the State of Israel became so much different from all the nations around them. The nations around them are mostly followers of Islam/Muslims.

As followers of Jesus Christ, we are looking forward to being gathered into the eternal New Jerusalem in the new heaven and earth. That is a place where there will be no detestable or abominable thing, no more sin, but we live in perfect Holiness. We will live in the presence of God and His Son Jesus Christ.

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11