The Prophecy concerning The Golden Gate of  Jerusalem   ( An example of Literal Fulfillment)                                                                                  The Picture above is how the Golden Gate appears today

World leaders are trying to patch things together and bring about peace.

Yet the Bible teaches that there will be no peace until the Prince of Peace(Jesus) comes to put down all governments of this world.

He will  set up his 1000 year reign here on earth. He will then rule from Jerusalem the Capitol city of the earth.

 

He will govern with perfect peace, wisdom and power. At that time the lion will lye down with the lamb.

Until then there will be more wars. Men and so called peace makers should be careful, for God has said he will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone and whosoever troubles himself with it will be cut off. (destroyed)

 

God gave the land of Israel to the Jews.  They are the only nation with guaranteed title for the land signed by God.  Former Prime Ministers Rabin and Sharon were  giving away the land that God gave to the Children of Israel and they came to a bad end. God has said that he will judge the nations by the way they treat Israel.

 

The Bible also said that Israel will sign a 7 year covenant with so called man of peace. The antichrist, His number will be 666.

The Bible also says they will sign a covenant with death and hell but he will annual or cancel it. That false man of peace will be the antichrist who after 3 1/2 years

will break the covenant and try to force the Jews to worship him as God. They will refuse and he will begin a persecution of Jews.

 

Israel will then go through terrible times, however just before the antichrist can destroy Israel the Jews spiritual eyes will be opened and they will recognize that Jesus is the Messiah. Then they will turn to him and he will come with the armies of heaven and destroy all the governments of this world.  He will then set up his kingdom and reign over the whole earth.  The environment will be restored to its original pristine beauty.

 

The people that accepted Jesus Christ and were born again would have been raptured

(taken up to heaven) 7 yrs. before and obtained immortal life in our new heavenly bodies.

See(1st Thessalonians 4th and 5th chps.)

 

We will  be forever  young and rule and reign with Jesus for a thousand years here on earth. Please see the 19th and 20th chps of Revelations.

 

After the 1000 yr. reign of Christ here on earth, all those who have been saved, born again, and ruled with him here on earth for a thousand years,will then enter into the

the New Heavens and earth, for which this web site is named.  Please read the 21 and 22 chps. of Revelations and you will see the beautiful world  God has planned for YOU !!!

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Jesus warned in the 24th chp of Mathew that there would be many signs of his coming. In verse 7  it states that nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom;

and there shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in different places.

 

verse 8 These are the beginning of sorrows. In another place one of the signs mentioned is the sea and waves roaring. (example the tsunami and also the recent reports of unusual huge waves at sea.) 

These are some of the signs of the nearness of the Coming of The Lord.

 

 

                  Now for a specific and interesting Item

 

The Golden Gate in Jerusalem,( that can still be seen by anyone visiting that city ) is in the walls of Jerusalem

 

It and the walls were rebuilt by Nehemiah and the children of Israel in 443 BC.

This was after the Babylonian captivity and  the Jews had returned home.

They were still standing at the time of Christ and are still standing today.

The temple inside city was destroyed by the Romans under general Titus in 70 AD.

Jesus prophesied the destruction of the temple to his disciples when he said in Mathew 24 verse 2 that not one stone would be left on another.  That was in 33 AD and just before his crucifixion that he prophesied this. 

Thirty seven years later in in 70 AD the Romans fulfilled that prophecy when they sacked the temple and burned it.  It melted the gold of the temple and the Roman soldiers tore down the stones to get the gold that ran between them.

The temple was destroyed at that time, and to this date it has never been rebuilt. 

During the 7 year tribulation on earth after the Christians have been taken to heaven, Israel will rebuild the tribulation temple. More on that temple later because

there are plans in Israel by the newly formed Sanhedrin to rebuild it. 

 

Back to the subject of The Golden Gate.  It and the walls around Jerusalem are still standing.  When Jesus entered the city on  Palm Sunday a week before his crucifixion he rode through Golden, or eastern Gate on a little donkey . (Please read

Mark 11) re. the triumphal entry of Jesus. He rode on a little donkey fulfilling the prophecy that said "behold Jerusalem your king comes to you meek and sitting upon the colt of an ass".  The crowds went before him with palm branches.  Jesus the Messiah entered through the Eastern Gate called the Golden Gate. It is still on the east side of the city facing the Mt. of Olives. However it has been sealed up for hundreds of years.

 

No one passes through it and hasn't in centuries. The other gates around the city walls are open to traffic and have been for centuries.

 

(What is the significance of this?)   For the meaning of the fact that the Golden Gate has been the only one sealed up all these years, we go to  Ezekiel 43: verse's 1&2.  The angel brought Ezekiel to the gate that looketh toward the east and said behold the glory

of the God of Israel came form the way of the east and his voice was like the noise of many waters: and the earth shinned with his glory    (Get This) the very next chp.44:2-3

This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it! because the Lord, the God of Israel has entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.

Verse 3 it is for the Prince. Today this gate is the only one sealed up.

 

When Jesus comes back will that gate be opened by the earth quake that occurs when he appears? 

 

Zechariah 14 This tells of the day of the Lord, when all nations shall be gathered up

around Jerusalem and fighting.  Then the Lord returns. He sets his feet upon the Mt. of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east.  This occurs when Jesus returns to rule for a 1000 yrs.

There will be a great earthquake and the Mt. of Olives will split at that time. Please read the rest of this 14 chp of Zechariah.

 

In the 1st. chp of the book of Acts in the new testament after Jesus arose from the dead and after he had been seen on several occasions by many of his disciples he ascended back to heaven.

 

He did so while his disciples watched (no doubt amazed.) He ascended from top of the Mt. of Olives and while they watched. Two  angels appeared to the disciples there and told them "this- SAME JESUS !!!  would return in a like manner".

 

He ascended from the top of the Mt. of Olives and he will return there according to what we just studied in the old testament in the 14th chp of Zechariah. This is an example

how the old and new testaments agree even though they were written hundreds of years apart and by different authors who never saw or talked to each other.

 

The Bible is the accurate word of God it is infallible and every word comes to pass.

 

Pray and ask Jesus into your heart and ask for the Holy spirit to help you to understand the Bible. He will help you. I have studied the Bible for over 35 years and love it .

It is fascinating.              

 

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