““the final [Age-ending] provocation of divine wrath comes in response to an ultimate arrogance of the nations against the covenant, particularly as it touches the question of the Jew and the Land (cf. Joel 3:2; Ezekiel 38:16-19; Daniel 11:39; Zechariah 12:2; Matthew 24:15-16; Revelation 11:1-2). This is the Eschatological context in which the gospel was first preached ‘for a witness’ to all nations; it must be so again (Matthew 24:14 with Revelation 19:10b). The first disciples lived under the shadow of an imminent, age-ending judgment of Jerusalem.””
![“the final [Age-ending] provocation of divine wrath comes in response to an ultimate arrogance of the nations against the covenant, particularly as it touches the question of the Jew and the Land (cf. Joel 3:2; Ezekiel 38:16-19; Daniel 11:39; Zechariah 12:2; Matthew 24:15-16; Revelation 11:1-2)…” quote by Dalton Lifsey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a8a/dalton-lifsey-15248_quote_the-final-age-ending-provocation-of-divi_483539.jpg)
![“The issue of how we treat the Jews in our midst as they are “sifted among the nations”[33] in the “great tribulation”[34] really matters to the Lord.” quote by Dalton Lifsey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3ae/dalton-lifsey-15248_judaism_the-issue-of-how-we-treat-the-jews-in-ou_370946.jpg)
![“There is still quite a bit of debate about [the future restoration of Israel]. I remember sitting on my porch in Boston in 1967, and watching on television the Jewish soldiers coming into Jerusalem, dropping their weapons and rushing to the Wailing Wall, and weeping and weeping. Immediately I…” quote by Dalton Lifsey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/10d/dalton-lifsey-15248_dear-friend_there-is-still-quite-a-bit-of-debate-abo_690793.jpg)
