Even today, the Nation Israel we see in the mid-east remains “Loammi,” meaning, “not my [the Lord’s] people,” from about the time the Lord’s manifested glory departed the Temple in Eze. 10:18-19. Prophetically, the Lord spoke to Hosea,

“the Lord said, Call his name Lo-Ammi [Not-my-people], for you are NOT My people and I am not your God. ¹⁰ Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered; and instead of it being said to them, You are not My people, it shall be said to them, Sons of the Living God!

¹¹ Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together and appoint themselves one head [Jesus Christ], and they shall go up out of the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel [Armageddon]; the SPIRITUALLY REBORN ISRAEL, a divine offspring, the people whom the Lord has blessed. Isa. 11:12] (Hosea 1:9-11 AMP)

Hosea prophetically, by metaphor, tells us about Israel becoming Loammi, “not my people.” This actually happened when Israel rejected the Messiah in His 1^st coming, making them Loammi. The Lord said,

“I gave FAITHLESS ISRAEL HER certificate of DIVORCE and sent her away because of all her adulteries (Jer. 3:8).

The Bible calls Israel’s estrangement from God many things; the Nation Israel is “blinded (Rom 11:25), “cast away” (Rom 11:1-2), and;

“[Israel is] Loammi (not my people).” (Hosea 1:9)

Yet, “I say then, Have they [Israel] stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather THROUGH THEIR FALL SALVATION IS COME UNTO THE GENTILES, for to provoke them [Israel] to jealousy. (Rom. 11:10-11)

Still being “blinded” (Rom 11:25) and in “unbelief” today, the Nation Israel is mainly a secular nation, not believing, and not possessing the Lord’s indwelling Spirit, nor the whole land of Israel. God has turned His face away from the nation of Israel while it is being punished thoroughly. For about 2,000 years since the Messiah 1^st came God has hid his face from the nation of Israel. But the time is coming when the genuine believers of Israel will be spiritually reborn to be the Lord’s blessed people on earth (Eze. 37:14).

As discussed earlier, Daniel prophesied about the “seventy weeks” of years of Israel under Gentile rule. Israel fell by ‘cutting off Messiah the Prince,’ thus becoming “Loammi” – “not my people.” God’s time clock calling for the ‘seventieth week’ was stopped, interrupted, when “Messiah the Prince” was killed. During this time God has given the Gentiles a time that Paul calls “the dispensation of the grace of God,” during which He has given the Gentiles the spiritual blessings that He has promised to Israel and even MORE.

Today is the time of Israel being “Loammi - not my people” while the Gentiles are being “Blessed With All Spiritual Blessings In Heavenly Places.”

Today we live in a time gap between Daniel’s 69^th and 70^th weeks. Israel fell at the end of the 69th week of Daniel’s prophecy when Jesus was “cut-off (killed, Dan 9:25).” Israel is seen to be yet in unbelief. Then shortly after that we have “The Salvation of God is Sent Unto the Gentiles (Act 28:28)” under Paul’s ministry.

“For I [Paul] speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am THE apostle of the Gentiles…” (Rom. 11:13)

“Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you [Israel]: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, LO, WE TURN TO THE GENTILES. (Acts 13:46).

“Be it known therefore unto you, that THE SALVATION OF GOD IS SENT UNTO THE GENTILES, AND THAT THEY WILL HEAR [heed] IT.” (Acts 28:28)

Then, after about 2,000 years of focus upon “the body of Christ,” after the Rapture, the Lord will again turn to Israel; beginning with the judgments of the “four horsemen of the Apocalypse.” They represent manmade crisis and disasters on earth in the form of; 1) conquest, 2) war, 3) bringing famine, and 4) death, as seen in Revelation 6:1-8.

Then, the last three and one-half years of the 7-year Tribulation period will bring supernatural judgments by cosmic disturbances in the sun, moon, and stars, with earthquakes (Rev 6:12), poisoned waters of the sea and rivers (Rev. 8:11) and more.

Two-thirds of rebellious mankind will suffer and die during the Tribulation.

“men were scorched with great heat, and Blasphemed The Name Of God, Which Hath Power Over These Plagues: and they repented NOT to give him glory. (Rev 16:9). Then also Satan pours out his wrath on Israel knowing his time is short (Rev. 12:12).

“And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, NOW IS COME salvation, and strength, and THE KINGDOM OF OUR GOD, and the power of his Christ: for THE ACCUSER (Satan) OF OUR BRETHREN IS CAST DOWN, which accused them before our God day and night.” (Rev 12:10)  

“¹²Therefore REJOICE, YE HEAVENS [the angelic host], and YE THAT DWELL IN THEM [the heavens]. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for THE DEVIL is come down unto you, having GREAT WRATH, Because He Knoweth That He Hath But a Short Time.

¹³ And when THE DRAGON SAW THAT HE WAS CAST UNTO THE EARTH, HE PERSECUTED THE WOMAN (Israel) WHICH BROUGHT FORTH THE MAN CHILD (Jesus, King of Israel).

¹⁴ And to the woman [the believing remnant of Israel, the Lamb’s Bride) were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished FOR A TIME, AND TIMES, AND HALF A TIME [3-1/2 yrs.], from the face [visible expression] of THE SERPENT [the Antichrist during the 3-1/2 years of the “Great Tribulation”]. ¹⁵ And THE SERPENT cast out of his mouth [literal] water as a flood after the woman [the believers of Israel], that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. ¹⁶ And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. ¹⁷ And THE DRAGON WAS WROTH WITH THE WOMAN, and WENT TO MAKE WAR WITH THE REMNANT OF HER SEED [the elect of Israel], which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. (Revelation 12:12-17)

Israel will endure their most terrible times. The prophetic word seen above refers to the middle of the Tribulation period when the enraged “Dragon [the Devil]” and his angels are “cast to the earth” (v13). But the Lord will preserve this believing remnant, being represented here as “the woman [Israel],” on “wings of a great eagle” (v 13-14)

Note in Rev. 12:12a (above) “Ye That Dwell In Them [in the heavens],” during this persecution “REJOICE.” Some think these rejoicing are the members of “the body of Christ” who were Raptured earlier to take their place in the heavens, but most likely those rejoicing are the spirits of the dead O.T. saints, who are in their graves and awaiting the resurrection of their glorified bodies in the “1^st resurrection” of Rev. 20:6.

Jesus of Nazareth said the specific “gospel of the kingdom” (not Paul’s “gospel of the grace of God” (Act 20:24) would then be the gospel preached till “the end come” (Matt. 24:14). The “two witnesses” and the 144,000 of the elect of Israel will no doubt preach the “gospel of the kingdom,” just as Jesus prophesied.

“I (The LORD) Will Give Power Unto My TWO WITNESSES, AND THEY SHALL PROPHESY [speak forth] A THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND THREESCORE DAYS [3-1/2 yrs.], clothed in sackcloth.” (Rev. 11:3)

“[Jesus said] And THIS “GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM” shall be preached in ALL the world for a witness unto ALL nations; and THEN SHALL THE END COME” (Matt. 24:14). 

During the Tribulation many people of “all nations” will believe the “gospel of the kingdom” and be martyred.  

 “After this I beheld, and, lo, A GREAT MULTITUDE (of martyrs), which no man could number, of ALL NATIONS, and KINDREDS, and PEOPLE, and TONGUES, stood BEFORE THE THRONE, and BEFORE THE LAMB, clothed with WHITE ROBES, and palms in their hands; (Revelation 7:9)

“And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These Are They Which Came Out of GREAT TRIBULATION, and HAVE WASHED THEIR ROBES, and MADE THEM WHITE IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB. (Rev 7:14)

Many misuse Jesus’ prophetic words in Luke 21 and Matt 24. We must understand that their context is in view of the seven-year Tribulation and particularly the Great Tribulation of the last 3-1/2 years. It’s true that one “sign” of Israel’s coming restoration and the Lord’s 2^nd coming to earth is seen in its restoration as a nation in May, 1948. Yet, Gentile domination will intensify under Antichrist in the Great Tribulation until “the winepress” of the “day of vengeance” marks “the year of MY redeemed.”

 “I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with Me: for I will tread them in Mine anger, and trample them in My fury; their blood shall be sprinkled upon My garments, I will stain all My raiment. for the DAY OF VENGEANCE is in Mine heart, The Year (age) of MY REDEEMED IS COME.” (Isa. 63:3-4)

Note the phrase “the year (Heb., shana, turning age) of My redeemed is come.” This refers to all Israel’s Kingdom gospel believers and those believers of all ages who trusted His words, both those who have died and those believers who will survive the Tribulation.

The living believers at the time of His 2^nd coming will “look upon (Christ)” when He appears. Every living Kingdom believer will see Him whom “they have pierced” by their sins, Him who thereby took “away the sins of the world” by the sacrifice of His cross-work.

“… IN THAT DAY, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. ¹⁰ I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and They Shall LOOK UPON ME WHOM THEY HAVE PIERCED, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.” (Zech. 12:9-10)

The Old Testament saints who are resurrected in the 1^st resurrection (Rev. 20:6) and the martyred Tribulation believers will be returning to earth from the “paradise of heaven” in their resurrected glorified spirit-bodies to be there with Christ at His 2^nd coming to establish and co-reign with Him His Millennial Kingdom on earth.

The Tribulation concludes with Christ setting His feet upon Jerusalem’s “mount of olives.” He will establish His millennial rule on earth with a “rod of iron,” which will be necessary since many will be born during the 1,000-year Kingdom, but only some of those will come to believe. Some will not believe and need His righteous hand during the Millennium until they rebel with Satan who will have been loosed from the pit, when they will be consumed by “the fire of God.”

^“And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city [Jerusalem]: and Fire Came Down From God Out of Heaven, and Devoured [consumed] Them.

¹⁰ And The Devil That Deceived Them Was Cast Into The Lake Of Fire And Brimstone, where The Beast And The False Prophet Are [by then], and shall be tormented