7 Things Needed Before Christ Returns

1. He could not have returned before 1948, because Israel was not a nation until then.

2. He could not have returned before 1967, because Jerusalem was not totally owned by the nation of Israel until then.
- the 6 day war resolved this issue and was no longer owned partly Jordan, or by the Romans, Muslims, Crusaders, Turks or British.

Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn [relating to the holocaust], and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up [the first two days of the 6 day war the air and land campaign was won, and on the third day Jerusalem was fully captured], and we shall live in his sight. Then shall we know, [if] we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning [the next morning was glorious]; and he shall come unto us as the rain [see James 5:7], as the latter [and] former rain unto the earth. (Hosea 6.1-3)

3. He could not have returned before today, because the Jews have not fully returned from all the nations.

Isaiah 11:11,12 - He is going to bring Jews back from all the nations of the earth whom "shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines" (v.14) - the airport at Telaviv at the shoulder of the land of the Philistines (see map of the land of Philistine). Isaiah 40:31, 43:5,6 - from the north [Russia], east, west and south. The return from Russia will be the most difficult and last (Jer. 31.8-11).

4. The ability for the gospel to reach the whole world must occur before the Lord could return. Matt. 24.14. Without the internet, satellite, email, pod casting, cell phones, air planes, record players, cassettes, 8 tracks, cd's and dvd's, that that time had not yet been reached.

5. We are moving from empires to coalitions which is needed. From the Roman, Byzantine, Greek, Media-Persian, Holy Roman. The EU has 30 countries - one money and one passport. There needs to be a coalition of the east (Rev. 16.12). There needs be the Antichrist and his ten kings (17.12). And there shall be an America Euro of South and North American countries when the US dollar devalues so much nobody wants it.

6. Merging of Christians and Jews (Rom. 11). There are 5 ways Messianic Rabbi's identify Ephraim, the son of Joseph who would produce the gentile nations linked to Israel: 1) multi-colored like Joseph's coat; 2) thought to be dead, but found alive like Joseph was; 3) will have the gift of interpreting dreams as Joseph did; 4) he will like to lay hands on people when he prays; 5) he will teach gentiles the Torah.

The people who do all these 5 things will tell you who the Messiah is. These people are the Christians, not Pentecostals, because there is no gibberish babble in the Bible.

7. The Antichrist revealed, war breaks out [over oil] (Rev. 9.16) and 1/3 of the people of earth (v.18) die in the Great Tribulation (Rev. 9.18).