The Lord’s feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives. He will show Himself to the little remnant of Judah and Benjamin, as had been promised in Acts 1:1010And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; (Acts 1:10) and 11.
Until that moment, Israel will have been without a king except the usurper, antichrist.
“For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim: Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days” (Hos. 3:4,5).
As the angels clear the Land from the River Euphrates to the River of Egypt (not the Nile), the remnant of Judah shall return first. “Then the remnant of his brethren (the ten tribes) shall return unto the children of Israel.”
What a deliverance! A nation shall be born “in one day.”
“Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing” (Psa. 126:2).
"The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. (Narcissus) It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there: And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away” (Isa. 35).
Judah shall then become a terror to Egypt.
The kingdom having been set up, Israel shall build and plant, dwelling safely without bars or gates.
The end of the age comes when the harvest, or consumption, will be past. Then a new age commences with Israel as a nation, and the eyes of all shall be toward their Maker.
“And I will encamp about mine house because of the army (King of the North), because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth” (Zech. 9:8).
But Asshur shall have designs more copious than simply to be a “rod.” He purposes to take the entire earth under his hand. In order to do this he must have Jerusalem, the prize of all, and the center of the earth. Satan is behind this scheme. In this daring venture, although he gathers the peoples of the nations as fish in a net, Asshur shall be broken, that is, God shall intervene when Jerusalem is attacked for the second time.