Gentiles will see that Israel was given to her enemies for unfaithfulness to God. 

Ezekiel 39:23

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“The Gentiles shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they were unfaithful to Me, therefore I hid My face from them. I gave them into the hand of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword.” Ezekiel 39:23

The Gentiles includes everyone who do not believe in God, do not acknowledge Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sin, and do not walk in the Holy Spirit. Today, that includes the world government and its global culture who live by the entity giving them what to feel, think, say, and do. This entity enables the image of the beast to speak and live through them as they are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they are given to say and do, “All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” Revelation 13:8 The “him” in this verse is the beast of the image and mark of the beast.

God gives Israel into the hands of their enemies, and their destruction comes through the world government and its global culture in the Battle of Armageddon. The “Gentiles” will know that Israel went into captivity for their sin of turning from God who requires the Jewish people to receive Jesus Christ. The Jewish people went into captivity when they were gathered into the State of Israel in 1948, and from that day God began to unleash His fury on them. Israel has been in 18 wars since the year they were brought to Israel, and even a war in 1948, Click for a list of those wars and scroll close to the bottom of the page.

God hid His face from Israel in the same way that in His Holiness He turns away from sin. When the Jewish people rejected Jesus Christ, they rejected the only One who can make them righteous and Holy in the eyes of God. Every person on this earth are sinners, unable to come into the favor of God’s presence, except with Jesus Christ living in us. When God sees the blood of Jesus applied to our heart, there is forgiveness and God deems us to be righteous.

When God hides His face from Israel, that means the fury of His Holiness is coming against their sin, as quoted, “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

When the Jewish people rejected Jesus Christ 2000 years ago, they exalted their Jewish culture above Jesus Christ. Because of that, God gathered them to their very own Jewish nation in 1948, called the State of Israel. Since then, they have suffered constant war and conflict, international condemnation, and global riots and protests against their existence. Things become even worse for Israel, as seen in this chapter relating to the Battle of Armageddon and the “day after”. If the Jewish people had accepted Jesus Christ as their Messiah, the State of Israel would never have existed because they would be Christian. As Christians we do not have a nation on this earth to call our own, our nation is the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and earth.

As Jesus Christ says, “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” Matthew 11:28-30

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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