Israel: Are We in the End Times?

In this episode of A Jew and A Gentile Discuss, Carly and Ezra continue their conversation about the End Times and where Israel fits in regarding Bible prophecy. They dive into the Christian and Jewish mindsets toward the Last Days and challenge listeners to rethink a “for-Christians-only” understanding. The discussion turns to the difficult things Israel experienced on October 7, how these events may have caused some listeners to disengage with God and the importance of finding your way back to re-engaging with Him. They talk about:

What’s meant by the End Times and what Christians think of when they hear it
How the End Times isn’t just a Christian thing but first appears in the Hebrew Scriptures
Hard things to come in the End Times
The Christian response to Israel’s suffering
The mixed reality of both grief and hopeful anticipation contained in the package of the End Times

Along the Way

Along the way, Carly and Ezra also discuss:

The challenge to make room in our hearts for what Jesus feels about Israel
What most Christians think of when they think of the period approaching the End Times
The birth pangs, “beginning of sorrows,” that Jesus talked about regarding the Last Days
Jesus’s love in preparing His followers for the future
A challenge to Jewish people who think the idea of the End Times is only a Christian concept to look again at the Hebrew Scriptures, at Moses and the prophets
How the atrocities of October 7 can cause confusion, sideline our faith and make us disengage with God, and the encouragement to check back in and re-engage with the Lord

Words You Might Learn in This Episode

Sukkot, pestilence, Mashiach, acharit hayamim, sof, Torah, Christian Zionism, Yeshua, Baruch haba Bashem Adonai

Scriptures Referenced in This Episode

Matthew chapters 24 and 25

Matthew 24:4–8

Matthew 24:8 (and 1 Thessalonians 5:3) John 14:3

Joel 2:11

Revelation 19:15

Genesis 49:1, Deuteronomy 31:29

Psalm 147:2, Isaiah 11:12

Zechariah 13:8, 14:1–3

Matthew 23:37