THE 7 YEARS OF BLESSING

The main purpose for G-d’s mighty acts against Gog is to make His holy Name known in the midst of His people Israel, who shall know that He is the L-RD their G-d from that day forward, and that Gog and the nations may know that He is the L-RD, the Holy One of Israel ¹⁰. I.e., this war shall serve to vindicate and make known G-d’s Holy Name, effecting a return of the Jewish people to faith in G-d, and a readiness among the nations to receive the Good News of G-d’s salvation and coming Kingdom. 

When the nations near and far shall witness the miraculous defeat of Israel’s enemies brought about not  by man, but by the outstretched arm of G-d, they will realize that G-d never rejected His people, but only hid His Face from them for a time because of their faithlessness¹¹. 

G-d prepared for a “turn-about” following this war: He will restore the “fortunes” of Jacob and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel^11a. In practical terms, this means that the nations will reverse for a time their hostile and oppressive policies toward Israel into favorable ones. Israel will even be highly respected and esteemed for burying for seven months the corpses of her fallen enemies. Moreover, Israeli ingenuity will utilize the fallen enemy’s vast arsenal of weapons to produce energy or fuel, lasting for 7 years¹². Furthermore, G-d will fulfill Isaiah 60:5, by exploiting the wealth of the Salt (Dead) Sea - estimated to be four times the wealth of the U.S. at the height of her prosperity - to provide for the returning exiles^12a. And the Lord will finally cause the “fatness”, or “greasiness”, i.e. the oil  that “couches beneath in the flinty rock” to come up, in fulfillment of the blessings by the patriarchs and by Moses¹³. The men by whom G-d will suddenly bestow such enormous wealth on Israel are called to bear testimony to the house of Israel and the Gentiles of G-d’s faithfulness, declaring that HE has done it and not man, in fulfillment of His good promises. 

It is during these 7 years that a peace-treaty, favorable to Israel, shall be signed by many co-signers, allowing Israel to dwell securely and restore the land from the war. And it is during this time that the Two Witnesses, those Two anointed prophets, shall appear and begin their ministry of  3 ½ years¹⁴. 

The miraculous outcome of the war, the favorable peace-treaty, the sudden great prosperity of the nation, and the testimony of these men will serve to “trigger” the Return of most of Israel’s exiles, with the exception of those who need a stronger “push”, which G-d will supply through the “hunters”^14a. Then G-d will fulfill His promise of saving and healing the house of Israel from all of their backslidings, sprinkling them with clean water, giving them a new heart, pouring His Spirit out upon them, and not hiding His Face anymore from them¹⁵. 

At that time the divinely imposed blindness will fall from the eyes of many Jews as it fell from the apostle Paul’s, enabling them to finally recognize the Redeemer of Israel, Yeshua HaMashiach. Their ears will be unstopped from the divinely imposed deafness, enabling them to grasp the Good News of  salvation when hearing it¹⁶. But it will be by the circumcision of their heart and the working of the Holy Spirit, that many hundreds of thousands of Jews (I pray it will be millions) will come to believe in Yeshua as their Messiah and Savior. 

And it shall be during these 7 good years that a great number of Jews will be born again, baptized in water and with the Holy Spirit and fire, and go together with (formerly Gentile) brethren to every people, nation, tribe and tongue to proclaim the Good News of  salvation. Only THEN shall the end come! 

But it shall also be mid-way during these 7 years, that the 7 years of tribulationbegin. While Israel will be at the height of her prosperity and fulfill her destiny as G-d’s witnesses to the nations, the world will undergo the trials and judgments of the final 7 years¹⁷. G-d’s promise to Abraham, by which his descendants shall bless all the nations shall be gloriously fulfilled during the 7 years of plenty when the children of Israel, both natural and ingrafted, shall bring a vast and ripened harvest into G-d’s Kingdom. Never will there have been a time of salvation such as this, just as there will be a time of anguish and troubles such as has never been nor shall ever be again¹⁸. 

Yes, the two interlinked sets of 7 years are standing at the threshold. It may be that the war of Ezekiel 38, once again planned by the same enemies of G-d and Israel - Gog - will occur midway into the first 7 years. But for certain the peace-treaty will be broken by the end of the first 7 years, mid-way into the second 7 years¹⁹, and then the “time of Jacob’s troubles” will begin - his “final punishment”²⁰.