Israel is thrown into the fire to be burned, both ends and the middle.

Ezekiel 15:4

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“Instead, it is thrown into the fire for fuel; the fire devours both ends of it, and its middle is burned. Is it useful for any work?” Ezekiel 15:4

When a grape vine is no longer able to produce grapes, it becomes dried out and useless, unfit to make even a wood peg. It is gathered and thrown into the fire. The entire dried out vine is burned at both ends and in the middle. When Israel turned from the will of God for them to receive Jesus Christ as their Messiah, they had become fuel for the fire. The oil of the Holy Spirit dried within them.

Jesus speaks a parable of the importance of keeping the oil of the Holy Spirit within us until His return. When He sees the light of the Spirit in us, we receive eternal Salvation. If the light of the Holy Spirit has gone out, we will be shut out from the New Jerusalem. Click for the scripture of the parable of the oil in the lamp [Matthew 25:1-13].

Today, the State of Israel has become that fruitless vine to be burned in the fire. Their heritage at the beginning of time will not save them, it will be burned at that end. Their heritage as they stand in today’s world will not save them, it will be burned at that end. None of their heritage between their beginning nor at the end will save them, the whole middle will be burned. Jesus Christ is the only way, the only truth, and the only life. “If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.” John 15:6

The Jewish people were thrown into the fire when they were gathered to the State of Israel in 1948. The wrath of God’s judgment is against them. Israel has been involved in 18 wars since the year they were established in 1948. Click for a list of those wars and scroll close to the bottom of the page. God gathered the Jewish people to the State of Israel for unleashing His judgment on them and to burn them in the fire, “Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Because you have all become dross, therefore behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. As men gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into the midst of a furnace, to blow fire on it, to melt it; so I will gather you in My anger and in My fury, and I will leave you there and melt you.” Ezekiel 22:19-20

Jesus Christ said that the Jewish people would be cast out into outer darkness where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth, “But the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Matthew 8:12 Jesus also said this about the Jewish people, “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.” John 8:44-45

If the Jewish people would have received Jesus Christ as their Messiah 2000 years ago, they would not be a dry and rotting vine, but be fruitful in Christ Jesus. They would not be a Jewish nation but instead would be Christians. There would be no State of Israel if they were Christians. Christians do not have a nation on this earth to call our own. Instead, Jesus prepares a nation for us in the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and earth.

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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, 3:1