Satan's massive invasion against Israel in the kingdom

From tonight's study given by Richard Jordan:

Zechariah 14: [16] And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.

These Gentiles, who are left out of all of the nations, come out of the tribulation and go into the kingdom. They’re not regenerated; they just go in. They still have an old sin nature. They go up to worship.

[17] And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
[18] And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

There’s going to be some rebellious people in the kingdom and they will be a part of this group of people who don’t want to believe the Messiah; don’t want to believe their own eyes.

Isaiah 2: [2] And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
[3] And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
[4] And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

The Word of God is going to go out from Jerusalem to the Gentiles. That’s what Matthew 28 is talking about. What preacher’s call the “Great Commission” is really a commission to Israel.

[18] And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
[19] Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
[20] Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

Israel is not reckoned among the nations in your Bible, so the verse is talking about Israel going to the Gentiles.

That verse is not talking about going out and teaching to lost people just anywhere. I knew someone in Florida years ago with a Jewish evangelism mission who used that verse as his text and I used to tell him, “That’s not what that verse says; that’s Israel preaching to Gentiles.”

Hebrews 10, when it talks about the new covenant, says it clearly. What the new covenant says, talking to Israel:

[10] For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
[11] And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

It’s only redeemed Israel that gets into this kingdom and then redeemed Israel goes out and does what? “Teach the Gentiles all things I commanded you.” That’s where Ezekiel 40-48 comes in.

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Then there’s a final gasp when Satan comes back out and his policy of evil tries to thwart what God’s doing. Satan’s plan was, “I’m going to take possession of heaven and earth,” and that satanic policy of evil that he starts in the beginning with Genesis, he’s still propagating it over here, and all through that kingdom there are going to be people who aren’t persuaded.

Now, if somebody’s got a gun to your head, you’ll do what you’re told. But it’s your heart--if there’s not the obedience of the heart, which is faith, then it’s not real, and as soon as you take the gun away, you’ll do what you want to do.

So, the knowledge of the Lord is going to cover the earth as the water covers the sea, but that knowledge is not automatic.

In Ezekiel 36 it says He’ll put His Spirit in them and cause them to walk in His way, but that’s not a robotic, automatic kind of a thing. God doesn’t do things with robots and it’s not instant; it’s a process. It takes some time.

You think about the vastness of the earth. It takes some time to accomplish these things. That’s why it’s a millennium. That’s why it’s a thousand years long. There’s that transition IN where the Gentiles are learning, gaining, coming to the place where they embrace the Messiah.

Isaiah 60: [1] Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
[2] For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.

If you go to verses 19-20, you’ll see that He just covers Jerusalem and the land of Israel with His light. Then in verse 3 it says, [3] And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.

The problem is all of them don’t come and they stay in darkness. John 1:5: [5] And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

What kind of light shines into darkness and doesn’t dispel darkness? Not physical light; that’s a spiritual light. There can be a spiritual light that shines in darkness, and if the darkness doesn’t respond in faith, it stays darkness.

Matthew 8 has Jesus talking about the kingdom: [10] When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
[11] And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.
[12] But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

There’s going to be some places in the kingdom that still have spiritual darkness.

My point to you is, when Israel experiences the peace and security under the Messiah, and through the covenant blessings He’s going to bring them, the Gentile powers headed up by the satanic policy of evil will produce a massive invasion against the nation Israel.

They’re going to be motivated by that ancient hatred, by the covetousness, the wealth that Israel has, by the fact that Satan himself is let out to lead them.

When God’s covenant of peace is tested during that kingdom, during the Millennium conditions, He’ll show His faithfulness by decisively defeating the satanic policy of evil, defending Israel and consuming Satan.

Where does Satan wind up? The bottomless pit where the Antichrist and the false prophet already are. Satan and his minions, they all wind up in the lake of fire.

If you look at Matthew 13: [36] Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.
[37] He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;
[38] The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;

[39] The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
[40] As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.
[41] The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;

So the end of that world back here, of rebellion, doesn’t really end until that point.

Now, what does He do with those tares? [42] And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
[43] Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

So, adjust your thinking about the Millennium. It’s not the kingdom; it’s the beginning, the transition into the kingdom. The perfect part of it starts after that; after the Great White Throne Judgment when the new heaven and the new earth come into play.