The discernment for the events, and times, of this earth age are essential: that one may understand the chronological order, in which God has, in His eternal power. The invisible things are known by the things that are made: Romans 1:20.

Ecclesiastes1:4-11 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. 9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. 10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Reference: Ecclesiastes 3:15 That which has been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past. * Psalms 104:30 Thou renewest the face of the earth. * Revelation 10:3,4 And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices. 4 And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.
Conclusion: God does things in threes. With this study we will be dealing with things, of the present earth age (14,000 years). We are now living in the second earth age, of God’s three divisions of time, for an eternal purpose. The seven thunders are those things after this earth age: here God is renewing the surface of the earth.

Note: Study of “Earth Ages”: http://our.homewithgod.com/lotw/earthages.html

Until now, Israel has been born, in their given land, twice. God does things in a series of threes: it does not matter what man may think, about Israel being in their land to stay: God says different, and there will be three daughters, of Jerusalem, born into the land. If the present daughter, of Jerusalem, is not terminated: then there could not be a third daughter.

God brought Israel out of Egypt, the first time: the birth of the first daughter in Jerusalem. God brought Israel out of the nations, of the world: the birth of the second daughter in Jerusalem. Now we can read, in prophesy, that Israel will deliver himself out of Babylon, and that God will bring Israel out of all the nations, of the world, THE SECOND time: the birth of the third daughter in Jerusalem.
Reference: Isaiah 11:11,12 And it shall come to pass in that day (Lord‘s day, seventh day, or 7th thousand years), that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. 12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Conclusion: As Israel has not been a nation, so will it be scattered again. All things, with God, come in threes. Israel is gathered from Egypt once, and from the nations, of the world twice; that makes three times: that God returns His people to Jerusalem! Israel WILL BE SCATERED INTO ALL NATIONS, OF THE WORLD, AGAIN!!! Believe it or not. If you do not believe it, then tell it to God; He made the plan for His pleasure!!!

Note: Definitions, of all these nations, are acquired from Webster’s Dictionary, and Bible Encyclopedia.
Assyria: Ashur, ancient empire W Asia extending along middle Tigris & over foothills to the E.
Egypt: Country NE Africa bordering on Mediterranean & Red seas.
Pathros: The Hebrew form of the Egyptian name for Upper Egypt.
Cush: Ancient country NE Africa in Nile valley S of Egypt.
Elam: Ancient kingdom SW Asia at head of Persian Gulf E of Babylonia.
Shinar: A country known to the early Hebrews as a plain in Babylonia; probably Sumer.
Hamath: City W Syria on the Orontes (river 246 miles (396 kilometers) Syria & Turkey rising in Lebanon in the Bekaa & flowing into the Mediterranean.
Islands of the sea: Islands=An isolated ethnological group. Sea=multitudes of people, i.e., the world of people.
Ethnological: A science that deals with the division of human beings into races and their origin, distribution, relations, and characteristics.

Desolation of Israel

Abomination of Desolation

Leviticus 26:23,33 And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me; 33 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
Reference: Acts 2:22,23 Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: 23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: * Jeremiah 44:22 So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day. * Luke 21:24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. * Luke 21:20-24 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. 21 Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. 22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. 23 But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. 24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. * Baruch 2:23,29 I will cause to cease out of the cities of Juda, and from without Jerusalem, the voice of mirth (Word of God), and the voice of joy (Blessings of God), the voice of the bridegroom (entities of God‘s Word), and the voice of the bride (righteous souls): and the whole land (Israel) shall be desolate of inhabitants. 29 If ye will not hear my voice, surely this very great multitude shall be turned into a small number among the nations, where I will scatter them.

Zechariah 4:18,19 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns. 19 And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.
Reference: 2 Esdras 5:3 And the land, that thou seest now to have root, shalt thou see wasted suddenly. * 2 Esdras 16:73 Then shall they be known, who are my chosen; and they shall be tried as the gold in the fire. * 2 Esdras 5:8 There shall be a confusion also in many places, and the fire shall be oft sent out again, and the wild beasts shall change their places, and menstruous women shall bring forth monsters: * 2 Esdras 11:39 Art not thou (dragon, i.e., false father) it that remainest of the four beasts (false father, false son, false holy ghost, false prophet), whom I made to reign in my world, that the end of their times might come through them? * Revelation 9:14,15 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. 15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. * Jeremiah 50:16,17 Him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest. 17 Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones. * Daniel 9:27 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 12:11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.

Mark 13:14-19 But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains(nations of the world): 15 And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house: 16 And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment. 17 But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! 18 And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter. 19 For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.
Reference: Luke 21:21 Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter there into. * Revelation 11:2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. * Daniel 12:11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. Matthew 24:15-22 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:) 16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: 17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: 18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. 19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! 20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day: 21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

Isaiah 11:11,12 And it shall come to pass in that day (millennium, i.e., third generation), that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. 12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Conclusion: It is quiet evident that: if God gathers Israel, the second time, out of all the nations, of the world: they must be scattered there!

Desolation is rapture, of all righteousness (light), in the midst of the tribulation week. Abomination is the evil thing (darkness), that moves in to Israel, after the light has been removed: at rapture. God is cleansing his own house (Israel) before he cleanses the world. Judgment, of Israel, by God, is the last forty two months seven year tribulation.
Reference: 2 Thessalonians 2:8,9 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, * Isaiah 27:8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind (nations of the world) in the day of the east wind (Babylonian Empire). Daniel 11:22 And with the arms (angels) of a flood (Word of God) shall they be overflown (rapture) from before him (Antichrist), and shall be broken (removed from the world); yea, also the prince (Word of God) of the covenant (promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob).

Nations that will be used for the cleansing of Israel:

Psalms 83:2-8 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted upon the head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. 4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. 5 For they have consulted together with one consent (Babylonian Empire): they are confederate against thee: 6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes. 7 Gebal, and Ammon (ancient country NW Arabia E of Gilead), and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre; 8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen (help) the children of Lot.
Edom= ancient country SW Asia S of Judea & the Dead Sea.
Ishmaelites= a descendant of Ishmael, i.e., the outcast son of Abraham and Hagar.
Moab= region Jordan E of Dead Sea; in biblical times a kingdom between Edom & the country of the Amorites.
Hagarenes= descendents of Hagar, a concubine of Abraham driven into the desert with her son Ishmael.
Gebal= An ancient Phoenician city, situated on a bluff of the foothills of Lebanon, overlooking the Mediterranean.
Ammon= ancient country NW Arabia E of Gilead.
Amalek= grandson of Esau: an ancient nomadic people living south of Canaan.
Philistines= a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia.
Philistia= ancient country of southwest Palestine.
Tyre= The most noted of the Phoenician cities situated on the coast, lat. 33ø 17 minutes, about 20 miles South of Sidon and about 35 North of Carmel.
Assur=ancient empire W Asia extending along middle Tigris & over foothills to the E; early capital Calah, later capital Nineveh.
Lot=descendents of Abraham‘s brother‘s son, Haran.
Reference: 2 Chronicles 36:11,13,17,20,21 Zedikiah (610 B.C.) 13 rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar 17 King of Chaldees 20 Them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon 21 70 years. * Isaiah 46:11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it. Matthew 7:5 First cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. Zechariah 2:8 He that toucheth you (Israel) toucheth the apple of His (God's) eye. * Ezekiel 33:27,28 They that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence. 28 For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, and none shall pass through. 29 Then shall they know that I am the Lord, when I have laid the land most desolate.

Zechariah 13:8 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. 9 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.
Reference: Revelation 7:4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel. * Romans 11:4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.

Hosea 13:15,16 An east wind shall come, the wind of the Lord shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels. 16 Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up
Reference: Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. * Amos 9:11-13 In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain. 13 Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings. * Isaiah 10:5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation. * Isaiah 10:24 Therefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt. 25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction. * Isaiah 37:18,19 Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries, 19 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them. * Jeremiah 25:11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. * Daniel 9:2 He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. * Amos 7:11 Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land. * Amos 7:17 Therefore thus saith the Lord; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.

Habakkuk 1:5-11 Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you. 6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling places that are not theirs. 7 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves. 8 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat. 9 They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand. 10 And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it. 11 Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.
Reference: Daniel 11:43,44 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps. 44 But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many. 45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. * Luke 19:43,44 For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, 44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation. * Zechariah 14:2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. * Luke 21:36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Zephaniah 1:12,13 And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The Lord will not do good, neither will he do evil. 13 Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.
Conclusion: This is the gleaning of Israel: those who are left in Israel after the desolation to Babylon.