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Do not read carelessly over this, as if it were some ordinary
thing you'd hardly notice! The FOOLISH will do just that, and
they will SUFFER as humanity has never suffered before!
The prophet Jeremiah describes it.
Did you ever see a man in frightful, excruciating PAIN, like
a woman in childbirth? Read GOD'S WORDS, through Jeremiah:
"For thus saith the Lord; We have heard a voice of trembling, of
fear, and not of peace. Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth
travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands
on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned
into paleness? Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like
it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble..." (Jer. 30:5-7).
And WHO is "Jacob"? Jacob was the son of Isaac and grandson
of Abraham. This is speaking of his descendants--the "House of
Israel." But NOTICE THE TIME OF THIS PROPHECY. The context shows
it is a prophecy for OUR TIME, NOW--shortly before Christ's
second coming. Daniel set the time as just prior to the
resurrection of the just--at Christ's coming. Matthew 24 sets
the time as just prior to Christ's return. So does Jeremiah in
this chapter and continuing in chapter 31.
WHERE is "Jacob"--the "House of Israel"--TODAY? Ancient Israel
was divided into TWO NATIONS after the death of Solomon. A new
capital was set up at Samaria, north of Jerusalem. But the tribe
of Judah remained with their King Rehoboam, son of Solomon, while
ISRAEL made Jeroboam king over ISRAEL at Samaria. Jeroboam threw
the priestly tribe of Levi, and that tribe joined with Judah and
Benjamin, forming the nation JUDAH, and BREAKING OFF from ISRAEL.
After 19 evil kings, ISRAEL was conquered by King Shalmanezar of
Assyria--uprooted from their cities and farms--and taken as slaves
to Assyria. Some years after, the Assyrians and the people of
ISRAEL migrated north and west--the Assyrians settling in Germany,
where they are known as Germans today, and the ten-tribed people
of ISRAEL migrating on into western Europe and Britain. They
lost their identity and their language. The world called them
"the LOST TEN TRIBES." Jesus called them "the LOST SHEEP OF THE
HOUSE OF ISRAEL." Today Britain is the tribe of Ephraim, and the
United States the descendants of the tribe of Manasseh. If you
have not read it, send for our free booklet The United States and
the British Commonwealth in Prophecy.
This prophecy of Jeremiah and other prophecies show that OUR
PEOPLE (who do not know their real identity), are once again to go
into captivity, but at Christ's return are to be delivered out of
it.
Go back to this prophecy now: "...the time of Jacob's trouble;
but he shall be saved out of it" (Jer. 30:7).
NOW go back to verse 3 in this prophecy. Let me give it to
you from the Moffatt translation: "...the day is coming, the
Eternal declares, when I will restore the fortunes of my people
Israel and Judah, and bring them back to possess the land that I