israel and the end times

¹⁴And I will turn back the captivity of my people Israel. And they will rebuild the deserted cities and inhabit them. And they will plant vineyards and drink their wine. And they will create gardens and eat their fruits. ¹⁵And I will plant them on their own soil. And I will no longer root them out of their own land, which I have given them, says the Lord your God.

¹Behold, the days of the Lord will arrive, and your spoils will be divided in your midst. ²And I will gather all the Gentiles in battle against Jerusalem, and the city will be captured, and the houses will be ravaged, and the women will be violated. And the central part of the city will go forth into captivity, and the remainder of the people will not be taken away from the city. ³Then the Lord will go forth, and he will fight against those Gentiles, just as when he fought in the day of conflict. ⁴And his feet will stand firm, in that day, upon the Mount of Olives, which is opposite Jerusalem towards the East. And the mount of Olives will be divided down its center part, towards the East and towards the West, with a very great rupture, and the center of the mountain will be separated towards the North, and its center towards the Meridian. ⁵And you will flee to the valley of those mountains, because the valley of the mountains will be joined all the way to the next. And you will flee, just as you fled from the face of the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. And the Lord my God will arrive, and all the saints with him. ⁶And this shall be in that day: there will not be light, only cold and frost.

²⁴Certainly, I will take you away from the Gentiles, and I will gather you together from all the lands, and I will lead you into your own land.

¹For, behold, in those days and in that time, when I will have converted the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, ²I will gather all the Gentiles, and will lead them into the valley of Jehoshaphat. And there I will dispute with them over my people, and over Israel, my inheritance, for they have scattered them among the nations and have divided my land. ³And they have cast lots over my people; and the boy they have placed in the brothel, and the girl they have sold for wine, so that they might drink. ⁴Truly, what is there between you and me, Tyre and Sidon and all the distant places of the Philistines? How will you take vengeance on me? And if you were to revenge yourselves against me, I would deliver a repayment to you, quickly and soon, upon your head. ⁵For you have carried away my silver and gold. And my desirable and most beautiful, you have taken into your shrines. ⁶And you, sons of Judah and sons of Jerusalem, you have sold the sons of the Greeks, so that you might drive them far from their own territory.

¹⁵Therefore, when you will have seen the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place, may he who reads understand,

³⁰And I will grant wonders in the sky and on earth: blood and fire and the vapor of smoke. ³¹The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord shall arrive.

¹Therefore, I say: Has God driven away his people? Let it not be so! For I, too, am an Israelite of the offspring of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

¹⁷Because of this, say to them: Thus says the Lord God: I will gather you from among the peoples, and I will unite you, from the lands into which you were dispersed, and I will give the soil of Israel to you.

²⁷But he will confirm a covenant with many for one week of years; and for half of the week of years, victim and sacrifice will nearly cease; but there will be in the temple the abomination of desolation. And the desolation will continue even to the consummation and the end.”

²⁴Certainly, I will take you away from the Gentiles, and I will gather you together from all the lands, and I will lead you into your own land. ²⁵And I will pour clean water over you, and you shall be cleansed from all your filth, and I will cleanse you from all your idols. ²⁶And I will give to you a new heart, and I will place in you a new spirit. And I will take away the heart of stone from your body, and I will give to you a heart of flesh. ²⁷And I will place my Spirit in your midst. And I will act so that you may walk in my precepts and keep my judgments, and so that you may fulfill them. ²⁸And you shall live in the land that I gave to your fathers. And you shall be my people, and I will be your God.

¹“And to the Angel of the Church of Ephesus write: Thus says the One who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands: ²I know your works, and your hardship and patient endurance, and that you cannot stand those who are evil. And so, you have tested those who declare themselves to be Apostles and are not, and you have found them to be liars. ³And you have patient endurance for the sake of my name, and you have not fallen away. ⁴But I have this against you: that you have relinquished your first charity. ⁵And so, call to mind the place from which you have fallen, and do penance, and do the first works. Otherwise, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. ⁶But this you have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.