THE DESTINY OF NATIONS: Demystifying God's End-times Plan

Israel,the Church, and the Book of Revelation

JOSHUA M NGOMA

• Publisher: Joshua M Ngoma
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9780578886862
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

THE DESTINY OF NATIONS

At this critical moment in history when the Bible has suffered the "wildest" imaginations or conspiracy theories, "inventions" and at worst fiction, THE DESTINY OF NATIONS is a timely publication that demystifies the end times based purely on biblical and historical evidence.

THE DESTINY OF NATIONS deals with the subject matter of the end times and the literary genre of the prophecy of future things, which are both very difficult.

How we interpret and deal with events that are yet to happen has a tremendous influence on our faith, worldview, understanding of the nature of God's kingdom, and what the future holds in God's prophetic time clock.

THE DESTINY OF NATIONS unequivocally gives answers to the following old age questions: Has the Church displaced or replaced the ethnic nation of Israel in God's plan of salvation? Who constitutes the Universal Church and has Jesus received the Kingdom from the father, which is here and at work now- a spiritual and universal, not a literal earthly or national kingdom confined to a particular geography?

What is Daniel's "Seventy Weeks" prophecy and how does it accurately predict the end of Israel's captivity in Babylon, the Messiah's birth, His death, His Resurrection and Ascension to receive the Kingdom from the Father, the abomination of desolation of Jerusalem in A.D. 70, and the Rapture of the Church?

Who is the Antichrist, the Beast, the False Prophet, the Great Harlot, and what is Babylon in the Book of Revelation? What is the "mark of the beast", and whom does the number six hundred and sixty-six (666) represent, and will there be only 144, 000 believers in Heaven according to the Book of Revelation? What is the final apocalyptic battle of "Gog and Magog" and when will it take place? What is the New Jerusalem?

The debates and the different interpretations of God's plan for the ages and the end times are likely to continue.

The purpose of THE DESTINY OF NATIONS is to rekindle in you the diminished interest in the larger picture of God's plan, purpose, and in the establishment of His spiritual and universal kingdom on earth.

PART I

ISRAEL

⁶ And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy
nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to
the children of Israel.” Exodus 19:6

CHAPTER 1

ISRAEL - GOD’S COVENANT NATION

From inception, God preordained the redemption of mankind.

⁸ All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Revelation 13:8

When Adam and Eve failed and sinned against the law of life in the Garden of Eden, God reiterated the redemption plan for mankind by promising a Son who would bruise the head of the serpent, the Devil.

¹⁴ So the LORD God said to the serpent:

“Because you have done this,

You are cursed more than all cattle,

And more than every beast of the field;

On your belly you shall go,

And you shall eat dust

All the days of your life.

¹⁵ And I will put enmity

Between you and the woman,

And between your seed and her Seed;

He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.” Genesis 3:14-15

In God’s redemption plan, He sought out to establish an ethnic nation of people for the primary reason of providing a lineage or bloodline through which, a Messiah would be born and take up the human form to consummate His redemptive plan for all mankind.

⁵ Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, ⁶ who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, ⁷ but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. ⁸ And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Philippians 2:5-8

By a sovereign act, God chose Abram (also to be known as Abraham later) as the patriarch of a nation whose genealogy would provide the earthly lineage of the Messiah.

Abraham was a Chaldean out of the land of Ur, a group of people that did not know Yahweh but worshiped idols and other gods.

But God chose him from a heathen nation and set him on a journey to establish a lineage out of which, His redemptive plan would be fulfilled.

For this reason, Abraham left his homeland of Ur and journeyed to a new land of Canaan in the year 1900 B.C.

Now the LORD had said to Abram:

“Get out of your country,

From your family

And from your father’s house,

To a land that I will show you.

² I will make you a great nation;

I will bless you

And make your name great;

And you shall be a blessing.

³ I will bless those who bless you,

And I will curse him who curses you;

And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

Genesis 12:1-3

⁶ And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.” Exodus 19:6

Abraham’s faith serves as an important backdrop for the redemption of God’s people throughout the Old and New Testaments and helps us to see more clearly the greatness of our salvation.

Abraham was called to leave his pagan ways behind and enter into a covenant relationship with a God he hardly knew anything about.

God declared the blessings that would come if Abraham trusted in His covenant promises.

These blessings included a good land, many descendants, a great name, and the privilege of being the lineage or bloodline through which “all the families of the earth shall be blessed” by Christ’s redemption.

The gravity of the decision Abraham made when God first called him out cannot be underestimated.

He had to leave everything that he knew behind, from a home where prosperity and sustenance were taken for granted.

He left his familiar environment and went to an unknown land where he would now trust in the providence of a God he was just getting to know and without relying on his plans or family ties.

⁸ By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. Hebrews 11:8

God’s first message to Abraham made it clear that He is faithful to accomplish all that He promises to those who trust Him.

He promised to make Abraham a great nation. He pledged to bless the patriarch and make his name great.

God said He would bless those who bless Abraham and curse those who curse him.

Abraham did nothing to deserve this; it was a sovereign act and choice by God and all he had to do was trust the Lord and demonstrate his faith through obedience to the divine summons.

God also promised Abraham’s descendants a land.

⁵ No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many nations. ⁶ I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you. ⁷ And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you. ⁸ Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.” Genesis 17:5-8

God made promises to Israel, an identifiable ethnic group of people of a recognizable background and general lineage.

These promises are based on God’s faithfulness and not Israel’s ethnic superiority or favoritism.

¹⁵ Brethren, I speak in the manner of men: Though it is only a man’s covenant, yet if it is confirmed, no one annuls or adds to it. ¹⁶ Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,” who is Christ. ¹⁷ And this I say, that the law, which was four hundred and thirty years later, cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ, that it should make the promise of no effect. ¹⁸ For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no longer of promise; but God gave it to Abraham by promise. Galatians 3:15-18

These were unconditional promises, not dependent on Israel’s faithfulness. And if God were to deviate from fulfilling these promises, then He is a man that should lie and we cannot trust God’s promises. (Numbers 23:19).

³⁵ Thus says the LORD, Who gives the sun for a light by day, The ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night, Who disturbs the sea, And its waves roar (The LORD of hosts is His name):

³⁶ “If those ordinances depart From before Me, says the LORD, Then the seed of Israel shall also cease From being a nation before Me forever.”

³⁷ Thus says the LORD:

“If heaven above can be measured, And the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel For all that they have done, says the LORD. Jeremiah 31:35-37

After enduring four hundred years of bondage under the Pharaoh, Moses was charged with the liberation of the Israelites out of Slavery.

In 1200 B.C. Moses led the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt back to their promised land of Canaan.

About seventy Jews entered Egypt with Joseph (Exodus 1:5) and four hundred and thirty years later, they multiplied to include six hundred thousand able-bodied military-age men, in addition to feeble men, women, and children (Exodus 12).

They still pressed on towards the vision of a promised land God had promised their patriarch, Abraham.

²² By faith Joseph, when he was dying, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel, and gave instructions concerning his bones. ²³ By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child; and they were not afraid of the king’s command. ²⁴ By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, ²⁵ choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, ²⁶ esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he looked to the reward. ²⁷ By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible. ²⁸ By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest he who destroyed the firstborn should touch them. ²⁹ By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, whereas the Egyptians, attempting to do so, were drowned. Hebrews 11:22-29

Moses received further covenant promises at Sinai. These Sinai covenant promises were conditional.

These covenants God entered with Moses were dependent on Israel’s faithfulness.

“Every commandment which I command you today you must be careful to observe, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land of which the LORD swore to your fathers. ² And you shall remember that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. Deuteronomy 8:1-2

If you are willing and obedient, You shall eat the good of the land; ²⁰ But if you refu...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Foreword
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Part I – Israel
• Part II – The Church
• Part III – The Book of Revelation
• References and Notes
• Appendix