Thus says Adonai,
who gives the sun as a light by day
and the fixed order of the moon
and the stars as a light by night,
who stirs up the sea so its waves roar,
Adonai-Tzva’ot is His Name:
“Only if this fixed order departs from before Me”
—it is a declaration of Adonai—
“then also might Israel’s offspring cease
from being a nation
before Me—for all time.”
(Jeremiah 31:34-35)
Notice that God uses the specific wording “Only if this fixed order departs from before Me”
The fixed order is talking about the sun, moon, stars stop doing what God created them to do. And we know nothing as the such has happened. So todays people are a direct bloodline remnant of this prophesy in Jeremiah concerning the Jews of that day.
We also know from other Books discussing the end time events that 144,000 of these biological Jews existing today, the remnant, will be a major force for God pouring out His Spirit in the Tribulation like Joel prophesies about.
1. And it shall come to pass that I will pour out My spirit upon all flesh before the great and terrible day of HaShem come
We know this is about the time before the Second Coming because Joel is describing the Tribulation Period when Jesus Returns:
3. And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
4. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of HaShem come.
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It matches the words of Jesus in Matthew 24:
29 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
30 Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man
Today, we already know about Messianic Jews, Jews who believe Jesus is their Messiah and Savior.
So it's clear these Jews are part of both covenants but will merge into the second covenant before the return of Jesus.
But He keeps talking right? He doesn't end it there, He tells THEM in 24: 34-35 " 34 Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place. 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.", then does go on to tell them that no one knows the day, but He tells THEM "THIS GENERATION" will NOT pass away before ALL these things take place.
Jesus tells them so clearly right here that that generation would be around for everything He just told hem about. Do we need to just reread the whole chapter? Go over the "ALL" He is talking about.
The whole time the story always was that the Messiah brought salvation and judgement, Jesus brought the salvation, poured His Spirit out on man, and within that generation the judgement on the covenant breaking Jews, the promised judgement at the end of that AGE that ushered in the new covenant and His kingdom on earth, not a kingdom that you can point to and say "there it is", but an eternal kingdom He rules and His people from all nations make it up, the new Israel. The kingdom that would never see defeat and that the gates of hell cannot prevail against. All this happen EXACTLY like He said it would and exactly when He said it would. Within THAT GENERATION Jerusalem was destroyed, the temple torn down, not one brick left on another, all the priestly genealogies were burnt to ash, it was described by eye witnesses like "the blood was flowing through the streets", and scenes where a woman is offering others some of her food. It was her own child she had cooked and was eating because everyone was starving to death.
To be honest I believe you HAVE to add to scripture to get anything else out of these verses. "Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place." Is pretty dang clear, and the fact the historical record even supports that it happened exactly like Jesus said it would is powerful to me, and putting all this future to us just takes all that away and opens Jesus up to accusations that He gave a false prophesy. So from my point of view it robs Him of the amazing nature of Gods perfect power over time and knowing what's going to happen, but it also opens Jesus up to attacks that I feel shouldn't even be on the table. Jesus predicted everything perfectly.
Now I understand the nature of this debate, trust me I am down south in the Bible belt and have never been to a church where the Pre-trib Rapture wasn't preached with fire! So I know it gets intense and I'm not trying to step on toes here, but in truth the more screws I took to this belief the less it made sense to me. I believe that everything points to this coming judgement that Jesus is telling them about being a breath away. Everything from the fig tree the Jesus cursed for producing no fruit, to the parable of the landowner that lets people farm his land and ends up sending his son that they end up killing, to the woman He tells on the way to the cross "do not weep for me, weep for your children", He knew something was coming and even this small obscure verse seems to fit better with the view these things already took place.
I can go on and on about this stuff, but am not trying to "correct" anyone as much as I am share how I feel He has lead me to see it.