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This is the way I see it. We, new born believers, Gentiles and elect Israel, are the people of God. There is also a current nation of Israel. That actual nation has apostolic Jewish believers and also blinded Jewish.
The Lord returns to raise his saints, wherever they are, Gentiles and elect Israel, whether they are in the nation of Israel or somewhere else.
And the Lord comes to establish his righteous kingdom of God on the earth. There are a lot of promises regarding Israel for that age. However, on the earth, before his coming, there is also nation of Israel. What the Lord is going to do with the nation of Israel, when the Lord comes with his saints and the godly Israel? How is that situation going to be resolved?
The day of the Lord is the day of mourning (repentance) for the nation of Israel:
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""In that day the LORD will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; the one who is feeble among them in that day shall be like David, and the house of David [shall be] like God, like the Angel of the LORD before them. "It shall be in that day [that] I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. "And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for [his] only [son], and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn. "In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning at Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo." - Zechariah 12:8-11 NKJV
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Here we see they are defended mighty by the Lord yet they mourn.
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"Behold, the day of the LORD is coming, And your spoil will be divided in your midst. For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem; The city shall be taken, The houses rifled, And the women ravished. Half of the city shall go into captivity, But the remnant (a remnant!) of the people shall not be cut off from the city. Then the LORD will go forth And fight against those nations, As He fights in the day of battle. And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, Which faces Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, From east to west, [Making] a very large valley; Half of the mountain shall move toward the north And half of it toward the south. Then you shall flee [through] My mountain valley, For the mountain valley shall reach to Azal. Yes, you shall flee As you fled from the earthquake In the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Thus the LORD my God will come, [And] all the saints with You (the universal church of God!). It shall come to pass in that day [That] there will be no light; The lights will diminish. It shall be one day Which is known to the LORD--Neither day nor night (remember the sun and moon turning dark?). But at evening time it shall happen [That] it will be light. And in that day it shall be [That] living waters shall flow from Jerusalem, Half of them toward the eastern sea And half of them toward the western sea; In both summer and winter it shall occur. And the LORD shall be King over all the earth. In that day it shall be--"The LORD [is] one," And His name one. ... And this shall be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet, Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths. (The man of sin and his army being consume with the breath of His mouth (spoken word) and destroy with the brightness of His coming, 2Th 2:8)" - Zechariah 14:1-9, 12 NKJV
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Notice many in Jerusalem will be killed, and many taken into captivity, however there will be a remnant left in the city. I wonder if that remanent are the ones that will turn to Christ at this coming spoken about in Chapter 12.
When the Lord comes, not every saint will be dead, so how are they going to be resurrected if they are not dead? how is that going to be resolved? Answer: transformation 1Co 15:51,
1Th 4:17. When the Lord comes to establish a physical kingdom from Jerusalem with this godly Israel, there will be already a physical nation of Israel on the earth. How is that going to be resolved? Answer:
Zech 12 and 14?
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