I have referred many times to the surviving Jewish “remnant” who will enter the Millennium. Jews who have (miraculously) evaded the clutches of Anti-Christ … that devilish fiend who will have diligently sought to exterminate every single one of them!

Well, today’s Text helps with that issue …

“And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.” Zechariah 13:8-9

We’ve just been told some specific information about that (Jewish) “remnant!”

Only a third of the Israelites will live. This is even worse the infamous Holocaust! There six million (European Jews) of fourteen million (worldwide Jews) perished! (A ratio of about 43%.)

During the Tribulation apparently 66% of Jewry (two-thirds) will be murdered or die from starvation, persecution, etc.

Horrible days ahead!

(Thank God for 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 … the Rapture of the Church. Which some of us still believe is pre-Tribulational.)

But … in the midst of that darkness … look what God is going to do with that remaining “third” of the Jews. This is pure Bible Prophecy …

“They shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.” Zechariah 13:9, as cited above, today’s Text.

Hallelujah!

Clearly God has (for seven years) been “purifying” that remnant, putting them under conviction (humbling them) … getting them “ready” for Jesus’ Appearance during the Battle of Armageddon!

And they, that relative “few,” will be saved!

Thus the Tribulation is, in a way, God’s refining furnace!

Jeremiah was right, when discussing this terrible period: “Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.” Jeremiah 30:7

“The time of Jacob’s trouble,” seems like it’s not dealing with the Church at all, but Israel! (One reason I believe the Church will be “gone” by then.)

I hope some questions have been answered this morning.

And from where I sit (a motel room in Marietta, Georgia, preaching a Revival in a nearby Church) … this world is rushing headlong and care-free toward that Day, that terrible “Day of the Lord,” the Tribulation!

Zephaniah 1:14 … “The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.”

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

The Gentile “remnant” surviving the Tribulation will be much smaller (looks to be so, deducing from the Book of Revelation) than the Jewish third. Multiplied millions dead!

The devil is the champion of death!

So are his companions; atheism and communism and socialism and anarchy!

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