Why are Christian pastors in the church and pro-Israel social media influencers silent on the coming time of Jacob’s trouble for the Jews and Israel spoken of by the prophets?

The other day, I read about 1,000 American Christian pastors and social media influencers going enmasse to Israel to show support for the Jews in an event orchestrated by the Friends of Zion initiative in collaboration with the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ok, that’s great, I have no problem with that at all. At NTEB, we’ve been showing support for the Jews and Israel for the past 17 years, but with a noticeable difference. Along with our support, we also warn them of the coming holocaust that will soon envelope them. Why is no one else doing that?

“For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.” Matthew 24:21 (KJB)

Can you imagine, as a Christian, getting to address Jewish leaders in Israel, or better yet, being in the same room as Benjamin Netanyahu and be able to speak with him face to face? Many Christians pastors in America, like John Hagee, have had those opportunities and continue to have them, and stay strangely silent about Jesus Christ and Bible prophecy. These men and women say how much they love and support Israel and the Jews, I don’t doubt that, and are unafraid to publicly declare their support for them. But underneath all that bluster they are cowards, afraid to tell the Jews the truth about their current estranged condition with God, about the coming time of Jacob’s trouble, about how the majority of the Jews will worship Antichrist in the Tribulation, and all the other things the Old and New Testaments declare are coming for them. Why won’t they tell them? For one reason, many pastors in churches today know very little about Bible prophecy, and you can’t speak of what you don’t know. But the other reason, and I believe the larger one, is that they know if they tell the Jews the truth, whatever relationship they have with them, in many cases financial, will be immediately severed. Money talks, and loudly at that.

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So let us take a moment through our platform, to send a message of love, and warning, to the nation of Israel and the Jewish people. In love, everyone at Now The End Begins loves the Jewish people, we pray for the peace of Jerusalem, and we are Zionists in the truest, and most biblical sense. In warning, we bring to your remembrance what the prophets and apostles have declared to be true about the coming time of Jacob’s trouble that will see the rise of Antichrist and the destruction of Jerusalem. But please don’t take our word for it, see for yourself the things that must shortly come to pass, saith the LORD God of Jacob.

A Biblical Outline of Warning to The Jews and Israel About the Coming Time of Jacob’s Trouble

I. Israel’s Present Moment of Unbelief Foretold

1. Israel remains in partial blindness until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

   • “For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.” Romans 11:25 (KJB)

2. This blindness is temporary, but it leaves Israel currently unprepared for the coming deception.

3. Israel today stands at the threshold of prophetic fulfillment, not revival — that comes after the Tribulation (Ezek. 36–37).

II. The Rapture Removes the Church and Opens the Final Countdown for Israel

1. After the Church — the Body of Christ — is caught up (1 Thess. 4, 1 Cor. 15), God’s prophetic clock for Israel restarts.

2. This begins Daniel’s 70th week — a seven-year period specifically decreed upon “thy people” and “thy holy city.”

   • “Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.” Daniel 9:24 (KJB)

3. The Rapture will leave Israel religious but deceived, vulnerable to signing a covenant with a man they will believe is their Messiah.

III. The Man of Sin Will Deceive Israel Through a Covenant of Peace

1. Israel will enter a false peace treaty with the Antichrist.

   • “And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.” — Daniel 9:27

2. This peace will not be peace from God but a trap, luring the nation into trusting a Gentile world leader.

3. The Antichrist will allow the rebuilding of the Temple and the restoration of sacrifices (2 Thess. 2:3-4; Rev. 11:1-2).

IV. Mid-Tribulation Betrayal: The Abomination of Desolation

1. At the midpoint of the seven years, the Antichrist will break the covenant.

2. He will enter the Temple and declare himself to be God.

   • “When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)” Matthew 24:15 (KJB)

   • “Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.” 2 Thessalonians 2:4 (KJB)

3. This moment begins the Great Tribulation, the fiercest part of Jacob’s Trouble.

4. Jesus warned the Jews to flee immediately, not debate, negotiate, or stay behind May 14th, 1948 was not the prophesied regathering of the Jews, the Second Advent will be.

   • “Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:” Matthew 24:16 (KJB)

V. The Time of Jacob’s Trouble: A Warning of Unprecedented Distress

1. Jeremiah prophesied a time of terror coming upon Israel.

   • “For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? 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 30:5-7 (KJB)

2. God Himself describes it as a time of refining, not annihilation.

3. Two-thirds of Israel will perish during this period (Zechariah 13:8).

4. Israel will face:

   • Global military assault

   • Persecution under the Beast system

   • Forced worship of the Antichrist

   • Divine judgments poured out (Revelation 6–19)

VI. God Will Use This Time to Bring Israel to Repentance

1. The purpose of Jacob’s Trouble is purging and restoration, not destruction.

2. During the Tribulation, God will raise up 144,000 sealed Jewish evangelists (Revelation 7), as well as the Two Witnesses (Revelation 11).

3. Through fiery trial, Israel will finally recognize their rejected Messiah.

   • “And 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.” Zechariah 12:10 (KJB)

4. The remnant of Israel will cry out nationally for the return of Jesus, but at tremendous cost.

   • “For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.” — Matthew 23:39 (KJB)

   • “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 13:9 (KJB)

VII. The Second Coming: Israel’s Deliverance at Armageddon

1. When Jerusalem is surrounded and on the verge of destruction, the Lord Himself will descend.

   • “Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.” Zechariah 14:3,4 (KJB)

2. His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives (Zechariah 14:4).

3. Israel will be rescued, the Antichrist destroyed, and the nations judged (Revelation 19).

4. The remnant of Israel will enter the Millennial Kingdom, where prophecy finds fulfillment and the promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are realized.

“Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.” Zechariah 8:23 (KJB)

This is not my opinion, my interpretation, or the ‘historic view of eschatology’. What I have told you here will absolutely come to pass as it is written in the scripture of truth. The Jews are God’s chosen people, but many of them will choose Antichrist over the Lord and wind up in a burning, fiery Hell. And right, here in the Church Age, every single Jew on the face of the Earth can only be saved by trusting the shed blood of Jesus on the cross. The prophets all point to what the New Testament declares to be true. I believe that all Christians should love the Jews and pray for Israel, but to not tell them this vital truth is tantamount to depraved indifference over their lost spiritual condition. Don’t just say you love the Jews, don’t just say you support Israel, tell them the truth, Pastor.

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