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Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about:thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD. Let the heathen be wakened, and comeup to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. Put yein the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow;for their wickedness is great. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of theLORD is near in the valley of decision.”Zechariah 14:2 prophecies, “For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle;and the city shall be taken.”God will do a final work in segregating a “godly remnant” from the last apostateelements of the nation of Israel. And, after the destruction of many of the Jews n Israel, theremainder will be brought through the fire as pure gold, purified and prepared for leadership inChrist’s glorious kingdom that is about to be establish.Zechariah 13:8-9 describes it, “And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith theLORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. And I willbring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try themas gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: andthey shall say, The LORD is my God.”John says in Revelation 19:11-18, “And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse;and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge andmake war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had aname written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped inblood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followedhim upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth asharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron:and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on hisvesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. And I sawan angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly inthe midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and theflesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, bothsmall and great.”Lesson SevenThe Truth of Israel’s HistoryIn my studies on Israel I came across some interesting facts that I was not aware ofbefore. In fact, in all my associations with others discussing Israel’s past history and what Bibleprophecy has to say about her future, many of these facts were either unfamiliar, or just nevermentioned. However, to give a handle on “Israel and Bible Prophecy” I would like to sharesome of my findings here.But, first I would like to review some Biblical concepts.We have, in earlier lessons, discussed the unconditional covenants that God made withIsrael, that are foundational for understanding Israel’s importance in the prophetic future. These