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Deliverance During a Storm 163
God will deal with Israel relative to repentance in the same place
that He dealt with Jonah in the type — in the sea, not in the land [in the
sea, not on board the ship]. And resurrection and removal from the
sea [from the place of death, from the nations], as in Jonah’s case, will
be when the Jewish people remember the Lord and turn back to Him [cf. II
Chron. 7:14; Jonah 2:2-3:3]. It will be when repentance occurs [cf. Matt.
3:2; 4:17; Acts 2:37-39; 3:13-21].
The Lord will then hear, remember His covenant with Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob, and send the Deliverer [cf. Ex. 2:23-25; 3:2-10]. The nation, at
that time, will be removed from the sea [from the place of death, from
the nations] and be raised up to live in God’s sight [Hosea 6:1, 2]. And, as
Jonah, the Jewish people will then heed God’s previous command and carry
His message to the Gentiles [cf. Isa. 53:1ff; Zech. 8:23].)
1) A Time of Darkness, A Great Wind, A Tumultuous Sea
The coming Tribulation, covering time which fulfills the last
seven years of Daniel’s Seventy-Week prophecy, is seen in Scripture
as a time of trouble without parallel in human history — a period
“such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no,
nor ever shall be.” And this period will be of such a nature that
“except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be
saved” (Matt. 24:21, 23).
This is how approximately 2,600 years of Gentile world
dominance and rule will end on the one hand; and this is also
how the continued stubbornness and rebellion on the part of the
Jewish people, over an even longer period of time, will end on
the other hand.
God will allow the Gentile nations under the final world ruler
during Man’s Day, under Antichrist, to bring about conditions
of this nature. And history during Man’s Day will end with this
type climax in order to bring the Jewish people to the place of
repentance so that God can, in turn, place Israel in the position
where the Gentile nations can be blessed through God’s restored
wife, through His firstborn son.
The whole of the matter surrounding Gentile world dominance
and rule, with the sea in view, is set forth in the imagery
and metaphorical language used in Daniel chapter seven, which
depicts conditions from the beginning to the end of the Times of