Timing of Jesus’ Second Coming: Difference between revisions

As prophesied, Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, was besieged and destroyed by the Roman armies in A.D. 70. This prophecy also hints at the restoration of Israel. In Luke 21:24 of the NLT Bible, it reads, “Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles '''until the period of the Gentiles comes to an end'''.”<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.studylight.org/study-desk.html?q1=Luke+21%3A24&q2=&ss=0&t1=eng_n84&t2=eng_kjv&t3=eng_nas&ns=0&sr=1&ot=bhs&nt=wh&hv1=1&b=verse&d=3 |title=Luke 21:24 |publisher= |quote=}}</ref> The land of Israel was actually ruled by Rome, Byzantium, Islam, crusaders, the Mamluks and the Ottoman Turks.<ref>{{인용 |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Jerusalem/Roman-rule |title=Roman rule |website= |publisher=Britannica  |date= |year= |author= |author링크= |author2= |author링크2= |page= |series= |언어= |번역title= |isbn= |quote= }}</ref> However, when the period of the Gentiles is over, the land of Israel is to be restored to the Jews.

===Fall of Israel<ref>{{인용 |url= |title=Antiquities of the Jews |website= |publisher= CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |date=December 13, 2013 |year=2013 |author=Flavius Josephus |author링크= |author2= |author링크2= |page= |series= |언어= |번역title= |isbn= |quote=}}</ref>===

After the fall of Israel, the Jews were expelled from the land of Israel, and wandered in Europe and many other countries around the world. Among them, the Jews who believed in the prophecy of the restoration of Israel<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.studylight.org/study-desk.html?q1=Jeremiah+30%3A3&q2=&ss=0&t1=eng_n84&t2=eng_kjv&t3=eng_nas&ns=0&sr=1&ot=bhs&nt=wh&hv1=1&b=verse&d=3 |title=Jeremiah 30:3 |quote= }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.studylight.org/study-desk.html?q1=Jeremiah+50%3A4-5&q2=&ss=0&t1=eng_n84&t2=eng_kjv&t3=eng_nas&ns=0&sr=1&ot=bhs&nt=wh&hv1=1&b=verse&d=3 |title=Jeremiah 50:4–5 |quote= }}</ref>did not forget their home Jerusalem, waiting for the fulfillment of the prophecy.<ref>{{인용 |title=Jerusalem: The Biography |date=September 18, 2012 |author=Simon Sebag Montefiore}}</ref> At the end of the 19th century, the Jews scattered all over the world aroused [[Zionism]] to establish a state in the land of their ancestors. Some Jews, dreaming of establishing a state, even migrated to Palestine.<ref>{{인용 |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Zionism |title= Zionism|website= |publisher=Britannica  |date= |year= |author= |author링크= |author2= |author링크2= |page= |series= |언어= |번역title= |isbn= |quote=}}</ref><br>During this period, one of the biggest genocides occurred to the Jews in Europe. It was the Holocaust, the massacre of Jews by Nazi Germany, which began in 1933 and ended in 1945. For twelve years, six million Jews, including 1.5 million children, were killed in fifteen European countries, including Poland, Russia, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Greece. They died of forced labor, starvation, and diseases, or they were shot, hanged on the gallows, and massacred in the gas chambers.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Holocaust |title=Holocaust |website=Britannica|publisher=  |date= |year= |author= |page= |series= |isbn= |quote= }}</ref><br>When Germany was defeated in [[World War II]] (1939–1945), the genocide of Jews stopped. The Jews returned to Palestine, the land of their ancestors, believing that a state must exist in order for them to live, and declared the independence of Israel on May 14, 1948.<ref>{{Cite web |url= https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/truman-israel/|title=Declaration of Israel's Independence, 1948 |website= |publisher=PBS.org  |date= |year= |author= |page= |series= |isbn= |quote=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.gov.il/en/Departments/General/declaration-of-establishment-state-of-israel|title=The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel|website= Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs |publisher=  |date=May 14, 1948 |year= |author= |page= |series= |isbn= |quote= }}</ref>

In winter, trees lose their leaves and their twigs seem to have withered. However, in spring and summer, twigs get tender and give out leaves. It is the same with the State of Israel, which is represented by the fig tree. Israel had perished for about 1,900 years after its fall in A.D. 70, but restored its sovereignty and rebuilt a state in 1948. It is the resurrection of a nation that had disappeared in ancient times.<ref>{{인용 |url=https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/columnist/editors-note/348414/the-five-miracles-of-israel/ |title=The Five Miracles of Israel |website= |publisher=Jewish Journal  |date= |year= |author= |author링크= |author2= |author링크2= |page= |series= |언어= |번역title= |isbn= |quote=}}</ref> There is no unprecedented case in history that a collapsed nation restored its state in 2,000 years. This is a sign of the second coming of Christ.