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Year 2017 Anniversary Dates …
2017 could be a very significant year for prophecy. It represents some significant ‘anniversary’ dates, both for PWMI as a movement, and particularly but not exclusively for Israel.
- The Ottoman Empire invaded Israel in 1517
(2017 = 500 years later) - The Eastern of ‘Golden gate’ was sealed under Suleiman the Great in 1517. Ezekiel 44:1-3 (2017 = 500 years later)
- The Reformation (Restoring biblical Christianity) started in 1517 with Martin Luther’s 95 theses of Wittenberg. Already being undone now in apostate Christendom.
(2017 = 500 years later) - Britain with the allied troops under General Allenby (a Christian) drove the Turks out of ‘Palestine’, starting with Beersheba and then Jerusalem in 1917.
(2017 = 100 years later) - The Balfour Declaration in 1917 establishing a homeland for the Jewish people.
(2017 = 100 years later) - Jerusalem was re-united under Jewish Governors in 1967. Luke 21:24
(2017 = 50 years later Jubilee period) - The House of Windsor began in 1917.
(2017 = 100 years later)
Prophecy is always best judged on hindsight, after the events clearly occur! For example, we have had many false predictions made in the last forty (40) years over the date of the rapture, but God is always a God of order and precision or else the very Universe would fall apart.
Expect the Balfour Declaration to be challenged in 2017 by the ‘Replacement’ theologians and the enemies of Israel as we celebrate its 100 years anniversary.
If Israel is now being restored (despite seeming mistakes made politically or by its governments with a spiritual end in view) Ezekiel ch34-39, Romans 11:25-26, signifying the completion of the church age, then how much closer and imminent is the rapture of the Church and the saints for which event we should all be prepared and waiting. Hebrews 9:28
Israel has been called ‘God’s timepiece or prophetic clock’. Whilst out of the land, God’s prophetic clock stopped. Once back in the land, albeit in unbelief, the prophetic clock started ticking once again. The clock is at 11.59! It’s later than you think!
This message is reproduced from the article Pastor John Angliss wrote for PWMI in February 2017.