Some preliminary information.
The Gospel of (Matthew) pertains to the Kingdom. What Kingdom? The Kingdom of God implemented by God and exercised by God through man on the earth. (Matt. 6:10) "Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven." This was what the disciples were to pray for.
The Gospel of (Matthew) is very Jewish, Israelitish. Why? Because they are the race and nation whose men will exercise God's will in that Kingdom, when it comes. It is why God created the nation of Israel. (Ex. 19:5-6) "Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine. And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel."
When you have a kingdom, you have a King. Thus the Bible is full of promises concerning the King to come to rule over that Kingdom. He is known as the Messiah. And will be Deity Himself. (Is. 9:6) "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, the everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace."
It was this Kingdom that John the Baptist, Jesus, and the disciples came preaching. 'Repent for the Kingdom is at hand'. (Matt. 3:1-2) (Matt. 4:17) (Matt. 10:5-6) It was at hand because Jesus the King was coming.
But the King was rejected by Israel, the Jews. Thus the Kingdom didn't come. (Matthew 12) presents a great division in (Matthew) for it is there that Israel commits the unpardonable sin. Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost. Attributing to Satan the works of the Holy Ghost. The offer of the Kingdom is taken away. Jesus now looks only to the Cross and His death.
But God's promises of the Kingdom will remain, just unfulfilled at this time. And nothing but judgement is pronounced on that generation that rejected Him.
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"The offer of the Kingdom is taken away."
Not so!
Jer 31:31 “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that
I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
Jer 31:32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which covenant of mine they broke, although I was a husband to them,” says Yahweh.
Jer 31:33
“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Jer 31:34 T
hey will no longer each teach his neighbor, and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they will all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh: “for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
The Valley of Dry Bones
Eze 37:1 Yahweh’s hand was on me, and he brought me out in Yahweh’s Spirit, and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones.
Eze 37:2 He caused me to pass by them all around: and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and behold, they were very dry.
Eze 37:3 He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” I answered, “Lord Yahweh, you know.”
Eze 37:4 Again he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, ‘You dry bones, hear Yahweh’s word.
Eze 37:5 Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones: “Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you will live.
Eze 37:6 I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you will live. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”’”
Eze 37:7 So I prophesied as I was commanded. As I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, there was an earthquake. Then the bones came together, bone to its bone.
Eze 37:8 I saw, and, behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them.
Eze 37:9 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.”’”
Eze 37:10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceedingly great army.
Eze 37:11 Then he said to me,
“Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are completely cut off.’
Eze 37:12 Therefore prophesy, and tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
“Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.
Eze 37:13
You will know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people.
Eze 37:14
I will put my Spirit in you, and you will live. Then I will place you in your own land; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and performed it,” says Yahweh.’”
I Will Be Their God, They Shall Be My People
Eze 37:15 Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying,
Eze 37:16 “You, son of man, take one stick, and write on it, ‘For
Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions.’ Then take another stick, and write on it, ‘For
Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions.’
Eze 37:17 Then join them for yourself to one another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.
Eze 37:18 “When the children of your people speak to you, saying, ‘Won’t you show us what you mean by these?’
Eze 37:19 tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions; and I will put them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and
they will be one in my hand.
Eze 37:20 The sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.”’
Eze 37:21 Say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “
Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, where they have gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land.
Eze 37:22
I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. One king will be king to them all. They will no longer be two nations. They won’t be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.
Eze 37:23
They won’t defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. So they will be my people, and I will be their God.
Eze 37:24
“‘“My servant David will be king over them. They all will have one shepherd.
They will also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.
Eze 37:25
They will dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers lived. They will dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children’s children, forever. David my servant will be their prince
forever.
Eze 37:26
Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them. It will be an everlasting covenant with them. I will place them, multiply them, and will set my sanctuary among them forever more.
Eze 37:27
My tent also will be with them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Eze 37:28
The nations will know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies Israel, when
my sanctuary is among them forever more.”’”
The Coming Day of the Lord
Zec 14:1 Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your plunder will be divided within you.
Zec 14:2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.
Zec 14:3
Then Yahweh will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
Zec 14:4
His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and
the Mount of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very great valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
Zec 14:5 You shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azel; yes, you shall flee, just like you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah.
Yahweh my God will come, and all the holy ones with you.
Zec 14:6 It will happen in that day, that there will not be light, cold, or frost.
Zec 14:7 It will be a unique day which is known to Yahweh; not day, and not night; but it will come to pass, that at evening time there will be light.
Zec 14:8
It will happen in that day, that living waters will go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea; in summer and in winter will it be.
Zec 14:9
Yahweh will be King over all the earth. In that day Yahweh will be one, and his name one.
Zec 14:10 All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up, and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin’s gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses.
Zec 14:11 Men will dwell therein, and
there will be no more curse; but
Jerusalem will dwell safely.
Zec 14:12 This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the peoples who have fought against Jerusalem:
their flesh will consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume away in their sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth.
Zec 14:13 It will happen in that day, that a great panic from Yahweh will be among them; and they will lay hold everyone on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand will rise up against the hand of his neighbor.
Zec 14:14 Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered together: gold, and silver, and clothing, in great abundance.
Zec 14:15 So will be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the donkey, and of all the animals that will be in those camps, as that plague.
Zec 14:16
It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem
will go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, and to keep the feast of tents.
Zec 14:17 It will be, that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn’t go up to Jerusalem
to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies,
on them there will be no rain.
Zec 14:18 If the family of Egypt doesn’t go up, and doesn’t come, neither will it rain on them.
This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of tents.
Zec 14:19 This will be the punishment of Egypt, and
the punishment of all the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of tents.
Zec 14:20 In that day there will be on the bells of the horses,
“HOLY TO YAHWEH”; and the pots in Yahweh’s house will be like the bowls before the altar.
Zec 14:21
Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to Yahweh of Armies; and all those who sacrifice will come and take of them, and cook in them. In that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of Yahweh of Armies.
The New Jerusalem
Rev 21:9 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you
the wife, the Lamb’s bride.”
Rev 21:10 He carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me
the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
Rev 21:11 having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, as if it were a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
Rev 21:12 having a great and high wall; having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and
names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.