Trump targets Iran's Supreme Leader in first wave of joint attack with Israel as Tehran strikes back at US bases across region and at Tel Aviv

biscuit1953 said:
When Christians call Israel the "time clock for prophecy," they mean that major, tangible events involving the nation of Israel—particularly its physical restoration in 1948, control over Jerusalem, and ongoing regional conflicts—are biblical signs that indicate the close proximity of the end times, the rapture, and the second coming of Jesus.
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Okay, so Israel is a clock that has been ticking for at least 120 years now. Seems to me that it could keep on ticking and tocking for another 120 years, or more. At least since the time that General Allenby conquered Jerusalem in 1917, the prophecy gurus have been pointing to that, and everything else that happens in and around Israel, as a sign that the Rapture is coming soon. At some point, these incessant unfulfilled prophecies have to be disregarded as meaningless.

In the Facebook video you posted from Jack Hibbs, he says, "Israel is pointing the way to what God might do next." Just another vague, non-specific prophecy that tells us nothing - "God may be about to do something next, or then again, maybe not."
 
illinoisguy said:
"God may be about to do something next, or then again, maybe not."
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If Old Testament prophecy has to do with the restoration of Israel during the Millennium, how can anyone know with any certainty what God is doing? (How can the State of Israel be the fulfillment of prophecy if, at this time, there is no prophecy that can be fulfilled?)
 
"Israel is just like any other nation. . . . They're not back in that land in fulfillment of prophecy. They have returned to the land, but they have not yet returned to the Lord. When they return to the Lord there will be blessing. They have not yet done that! . . . They went out in 70 AD. And they actually have never returned to the land according to the Word of God. Now hear me very carefully because this is very important to see. They have returned to the land today, and it's remarkable what has happened over there, but it's not the fulfillment of prophecy, because the prophecy says when they return they'll return to God!" - Pastor J. Vernon McGee, Thru-the-Bible broadcast commentary on Hosea 2:19-23 and Hosea 3:4.

"Now, then is the regathering of Israel in Palestine a fulfillment of prophecy? No, I do not think so. . . . Deuteronomy, chapter 30, says when all these plagues shall have come upon the Jews, when the blessing and curse have driven them among all nations and they turn to serve the Lord . . . the Lord Jesus Himself will return, and mourning Jews, troubled, repentant Jews everywhere, will be brought back to serve the Lord with all their heart. That hasn't happened yet. Ezekiel 36:26 says that He will bring them out of all countries to their own land and give them a new heart, not a stony heart but a heart of flesh, and will put His spirit within them. That has not happened yet." - Evangelist John R. Rice, "Dr. Rice, Here are More Questions," Volume II, pp. 317-318.
 
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