END TIMES | REGATHERING

1. End Times

a) Many people are fascinated with thinking and studying about the end times. The study of Eschatology (or end times) is a very large subject. Deep down inside all of us we long to know what is next or what happens after this life.

b) If you have ever attended a funeral service for anyone you probably asked yourself this question. In fact, contemplation of what happens after this life will often lead someone to search their own faith and belief system. For us, it lead to making a decision to follow Jesus Christ as my Savior and Lord. He is the only answer that makes any sense in our mind. 

c) The Bible tells us much about not only Jesus but how this world will one day end. Major events like judgment, tribulation, abomination that leads to desolation, the rapture (or to be "caught up" according to Thessalonians), and the millennium will occur one day. 

2. Regathering

Isaiah 11:11-12:6 
In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people,  from Assyria,  from Egypt, from Pathros, from  Cush,  from Elam, from  Shinar, from Hamath, and from  the coastlands of the sea. 

He will raise  a signal for the nations  and will assemble  the banished of Israel,  and gather the dispersed of Judah  from the four corners of the earth. The jealousy of Ephraim shall depart, and those who harass Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah, and Judah shall not harass Ephraim.  But they shall swoop down on the shoulder of the Philistines in the west, and together they shall plunder the people of the east.   They shall put out their hand against Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites shall obey them. And the LORD will utterly destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt, and will wave his hand over  the River  with his scorching breath,  and strike it into seven channels, and he will lead people across in sandals. 16 And there will be a highway from Assyria for the remnant that remains of his people, as there was for Israel when they came up from the land of Egypt. 

You will say in that day: “I will give thanks to you, O LORD, for though you were angry with me, your anger turned away,  that you might comfort me. “Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.” With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.  

And you will say in that day:  “Give thanks to the LORD, call upon his name,  make known his deeds among the peoples,  proclaim  that his name is exalted. “Sing praises to the LORD, for he has done gloriously; let this be made known in all the earth. Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.”

Matthew 24:31 
And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from  the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.  

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