Potential Order of Events in the EndTimes Bible

Potential Order of Events in the End-Times Bible Study Major Thomas F. Baird (Ret. ) B. S. Michigan State University M. B. A. Georgia State University

Established Order of Events 1. The Jewish People (Generally, the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Levi, though others are included as well) Gathered in the Historical Land of Israel. ▪ The Balfour Declaration (November 2, 1917) – The land of Israel Becomes a “homeland” for the Jewish People ▪ Israel becomes a Nation-State on May 14, 1948 ▪ Israel Occupies All of Jerusalem After the Six-Day War completed on June 7, 1967 – However, at the end of the Six-Day War, General Moshe Dayan allowed the Jordanians to control the Temple Mount. – In 1993, the Camp David Accords turned the Temple Mount over to the Palestinian Authority. Some say that he did this at the orders of Dean Rusk, U. S. Secretary of State.

Deuteronomy 30: 3 -5 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee. If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee: And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.

Isaiah 10: 20 -22 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God. For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.

Isaiah 11: 11 -12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

Isaiah 11: 11 -12: • • Location of Cities in Verse 12 Assyria – Western Iraq Egypt – Egypt, Sudan Pathros – Northern Egypt Cush - Ethiopia Elam – Southern Persia (Susa) Shinar – Babylon, Central Iraq Hamath – Northeast Syria Islands of the Sea – Great Britain, USA (? )

Jeremiah 23: 3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.

Jeremiah 31: 10 Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.

Ezekiel 37: 12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.

Amos 9: 14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

Micah 5: 3 Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.

Zephaniah 3: 20 At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the LORD.

Zechariah 8: 6 -8 And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.

Summary of Part I: In all these scriptures, the Lord states: • He will • • bring, gather, assemble the remnant They will return to Israel! What mechanism, or how? He does not explain to us… We will only see how, as it unfolds.

Established Order of Events 2. The old desolate and waste cities are rebuilt and inhabited. • It started when the Jews started returning to the land under the “British Mandate” after World War I, when General Allenby drove the Ottoman Turks out of the “Promised Land. ” The Balfour Declaration permitted Jews to emigrate to Israel in mass numbers for the first time in centuries. • When Israel became a nation in 1948, immigration increased considerably. The Kibbutz system established agriculture in Israel to the point they now export. • West Bank settlements have increased since President Trump has taken office in the USA. • The nation of Israel has yet to totally turn to the Lord as their God as described!

Isaiah 44: 26 • • • That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof…

Isaiah 54: 3 • • • For thou shalt break forth on the right hand on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

Isaiah 61: 43 • • And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

Jeremiah 33: 12 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; • Again in this place, which is desolate • without man and without beast, and • in all the cities thereof, • shall be an habitation of shepherds • causing their flocks to lie down.

Ezekiel 36: 10 And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded…

Ezekiel 36: 33 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.

Ezekiel 36: 35 And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.

Amos 9: 14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them. . .

Established Order of Events 3. Israel Meets Resistance (Hatred) from Her Neighbors: ▪ Israeli War of Independence (November 1947 to July 1949) ▪ Reprisal Operations (1950 – 1956) ▪ 1956 Suez Crisis – The British and French aided Israel in trying to Internationalize the Suez Canal. They Invaded Egypt, but the United States and the Soviet Union (Russia) Insisted the War be Stopped. ▪ Continued Reprisal Operations (1957 - 1967) ▪ Arab-Israeli Six-Day War (June 5, 1967 to June 10, 1967) ▪ Yom Kipper War (October 6 -26, 1973) ▪ Lebanon Wars (1976, 1982) ▪ Seven Military Operations Against Hezbollah and Hamas (1985 -2014)

Psalms 25: 19 Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

Psalms 25: 22 Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.

Psalms 69: 4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

Ezekiel 25: 15 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred;

Ezekiel 35: 5 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:

Ezekiel 35: 11 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.

Obadiah 1: 10 For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.

Zephaniah 2: 8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border. • These are the children of Lot!

Prophetic Dream – Major Tom Baird (ret. ) 1971, 1976, 2014

Established Order of Events 4. Israel Establishes an Army for Their Defense as seen in the aforementioned wars and inferred by the following scriptures:

Jeremiah 46: 27 But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.

Ezekiel 36: 6 -7 Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of the heathen: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.

Ezekiel 37: 10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. • This speaks of Israel's great army that appears to occur at the end of the Psalms 83 war. • This can also be applied to the defensive army as seen above in item three.

Ezekiel 38: 8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.

Established Order of Events 5. The Inner Ring of Adjacent Islamic Tribes bordering Israel establish a “confederacy. ” Their goal: To annihilate Israel! ▪ This Will be the Psalms 83 war. –This will be a War of Revenge and Hatred. ▪ The subsequent war described in Ezekiel 38 -39. –This will be a War for Plunder.

Psalms 83: 2 -3 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones (Israel, God’s People).

Psalms 83: 4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation (“drive them into the sea”); that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance (total and complete annihilation).

Psalms 83: 5 -8 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee: The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes; Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre; Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.

Psalms 83: 5 -8 – The “Inner Tribes” vs. Israel • The Tabernacles of Edom - Jordan • The 12 Dukes of Edom (Genesis 36: 15 -43) • The Ishmaelites- Intermarried with Edom! • Nebajoth, Kedar, Adbel, and Mibsam • Moabites (the son of Lot – Southern Jordan) • Ammonites (the other son of Lot – Southern Syria) • Gebal • (a town in Lebanon, south of Tyre - Hezbollah)

Psalms 83: 5 -8 – The “Inner Tribes” vs. Israel - II • Hagarenes • (a tribe dwelling in Eastern Israel, NOT Egypt!) § Amalek – Germany – Implies Nazi Help – (per Dr. Moshe Katz) § Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre – § Palestinian Authority, Hamas, Hezbollah § Assur (the Babylonians, now Iraq and ISIL) § they have holpen (the strong arm of) the children of Lot.

Obadiah 1: 6 -7 How are things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up! All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; they that eat thy bread have laid a wound under thee: there is none understanding in him.

Established Order of Events 6. This confederacy has as its objective to cut Israel off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance: "To drive Israel into the Sea. “ (Yassir Arafat) –They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. (Psalm 83: 4)

Established Order of Events 7. This confederacy will initiate a War Against Israel because of their hatred against the Jewish People. 8. Israel will have to rely on God alone. He will fight Israel’s enemies personally. 9. Israel defeats this confederacy by the Hand of God… ends up with an exceeding great army.

Established Order of Events 10. Israel takes captives in the Psalms 83 War. 11. Damascus is destroyed and Israel will posses all the surrounding lands that directly border Israel. (Isaiah 17: 1) 12. Once this war is over, Israel suddenly controls a lot of oil and Natural Gas properties in Syria and Iraq, along with their gas wells in the Mediterranean Sea. Iran, Russia, and Turkey will become very interested in this assets. As their own oil assets dry up, they will need something to maintain their revenues.