Revelation Man

I just SMH at stuff like this, try reading John 16:33 it destroys your whole thesis. Also, likewise Rev. 2:10 destroys this thesis. John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. John now speaking to the Church of Smyrna below: Rev. 2:10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. The number 10 means completion not 10 days. this is John via Jesus via God the Father, telling Smyrna they will have tribulation fpr the COMPLETE Church Age. Then in John 16:33 Jesus tells us that in this world WE WILL HAVE TRIBULATION, not may have but will have, and anyone using a computer can see how many millions of Christians have been martyred & killed over the last 2000 or so years. Its a never ending tribulation until Jesus returns for his bride Pre Trib. Then the 70th week will come to pass where more Gentile Christian Converts will be Martyred and the 1/3 of the Jews who repent will be protected, they have to reign with Christ for 1000 years, we do not do that as the Bride of Christ unless we are the 70th week Martyrs as Rev. 20:4 says, THEY ALONE rule and reign [with glorious bodies] on earth with Jesus for the 1000 year Kingdom Age, so says Rev. 20:4 in plain English. Now, looking at just those 2 verses, why would anyone think we ae currently in the greatest ever troubles, which has to surpass the WW2 casualties?

A Tribe is all or any seed of that tribe. When God forsook the Northern 10 Tribes he gave them up forever as per being of Israel, because they loved sin more than God. But NO TRIBES were ever lost because God tells us this, and because 1.) We can use common sense and 2.) We can add up all the scriptural evidence and historical evidence. Many people of those 10 Tribes hated the wicked northern kingdom and thus chose to live in Judea and/or Jerusalem. Likewise, some of the Judean tribes people who loved wickedness moved to the northern kingdom and got carried off with them. So, when God says He has saved Himself 7000 men, it doesn't 7000 actual men it means 7 x 10 x 10 x 10 or Divine Completeness x Completeness. There were men from all of those 10 tribes living in Judea, thus SEED SURVIVED, thus those living in Judea wereall 12 tribes but they all came to be known as Judeans or Jews because of WHERE THEY LIVED !! If an Irish family 100 years ago moved to New York, what are they known as today? New Yorkers or Americans. All 12 Tribes are called Jews today because the are from Judea. In Ezekiel 37 God says He will bring the WHOLE HOUSE of Israel back into the land, not just Jews. These people have no understanding about prophesy in general brother, they try to fit the bible to their beliefs on prophesy. Now for the historical facts, as Jerusalem was being surrounded by Assyria, they had to BUILD ONTO THE City more walls because they had so may refugees flooding in from the Northern Kingdoms, this is a well known fact, so there you have more men from the 12 tribes who survived in Judea. Anyone whom says there was ever any lost tribes just do nit understand biblical principles. But they have the Gentiles taking Israel's place, so that is who they say we are, the lost tribes of Israel in many cases. God states emphatically that He forsook those tribes on purpose, they can come unto Christ by Faith, but they will never be a part of Israel again in God's eyes. All 12 Tribes have never been separated, they were toted off by te Romans. known as Judeans (Jews) but they were all 12 Tribes, that is why in Ezekiel 37 God states He will bring the Whole House of Israel back into the land.

He came for the lost sheep of Israel, not lost tribes (SMH) of which there never were any. His Ministry was unto the Jews only, then he called Paul to go unto the Gentiles as well as his other disciples. He was called to turn them back unto God, via his blood that purifies, and he accomplished this, many Jews (all 12 tribes) have come unto Christ Jesus. And 1/3 will during the 70th week.

It doesn't matter because you can not comprehend the old writing styles at all. In many instances they named the last things first like in Rev. 13 where we get this. Rev. 13:2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. See that? Greece is first, followed by Persia and then Babylon the Lion. This blows your whole thesis out of the water my friend. But also, he will not attack Israel last, he attacks TOWARDS Turkey First, as Dan. 11:40-43 shows he attacks MANY COUTRIES (Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria) to get at Israel, then he attacks Israel before moving south. In Daniel its not relevant, just as Rev. 13's naming of the three beasts are not relevant, its all coming from your denial zone brother. We tend to grasp at any straw when our argument or debate point gets defeated, I know, I used to do the same thing. Then about 10 years ago I wanted to be led to the truth even of I was in error, and now see that as a VERY GOOD THING, its called the Holy Spirit reproving us. My point is you grasp at straws and eschew the evidence in full. But lets get very TECHNICAL here, Cassander is in the pink, doesn't one have to go SOUTH before they can go EAST? I always took this to mean that out of the Four Generals he was from the Northwest Corridor, this he has to conquer from the Northwest and move southeast, to get to where he can then conquer the other Generals. This is a no brainer, there are only four generals, we know who all he conquers via Dan. 11:40-43. We know in Dan. 8:9 where he conquers from, and in Dan. 7:7-8 he comes up and out of the Fourth Beasts 10 horns that mean Complete Europe. You already have an answer, so anything else has to be wrong, even though it is not wrong. What you want to do is get lost in the weeds, that is not my style, I use scriptures to prove all my points. You follow people like Joel Richardson and his bad Muslim/Arab Anti-Christ ideas I guess.

The 1/3 and 144,000 are one and the same, God was never going to foretell unto Satan an actual number 2500 and 2000 years ago. They both mean ALL Israel who repent. The true number only God knows, but we being in the end times can make a rough guess at 5 million which is 1/3 of 15 million Jews living worldwide. There as never any lost tribes, that's a myth

Indeed do a deep dive on every festival, but I can give you a summary understanding of what they mean, then a more detailed reason why they show a Pre Trib. (pre 70th week) Rapture. When Jesus stated no man knows the day nor the hour, he was referring unto when he returns for his bride, at the Feast of Trumps. So, God gave Israel 7 Feasts to keep, and they had no idea that He was giving them a "Shadow Glimpse" at the whole history of the world through these 7 Feasts. I could give you the Hebraic/Jewish name for each, I will just give it in English verbiage. There were 7 Feasts and Jesus has to fulfill all 7, though they did not grasp that at the time, and of course, many Jewish people still don't, but 1/3 will understand it all very soon. Jesus Fulfills the Spring Feasts via his first advent: Jesus fulfilled all three 1.) Passover (Jesus' blood is our Passover blood on the door) 2.) Unleavened Bread (Jesus was WITHOUT SIN or "Unleavened") 3.) First-fruits (Jesus was the First-fruits of the Grave. He overcame Death as 1 Cor. 15 says) Jesus is now fulfilling the Feast of Weeks aka the "Summer Harvest/Church Age" 4.) Feast of Weeks (Jesus is the head, we are the body, he is our high priest in heaven, and we via Jesus' direction are "Harvesting Souls for the Kingdom of God". We are in the Harvest Season now, and that season was all alone on the calendar, just like the Church Age is separate from the Spring Feasts & Fall Feasts) Now we need to set up The Feast of Trumps JUMP. The Feast of Trumps always ended the Harvest season, so think of it as also ending the Church Age here. Now we know why Paul stated the Rapture would happen at the Last Trump, now we know why John in Rev. 4:1 stated Jesus' voice sounded as as a Trump. Jesus will end the Church Age Harvest by calling us home, hos voice saying come up here will quiver like a Trump and only we who are sealed with the holy spirit will be able to hear it. Israel were seen by God as Dead Men's Bones for nigh 2000 years, God rent the temple, signifying He left Israel to fend for themselves in Desolations. The reason God brought Israel back into the land was because once the Church Age is over, Jesus has to set up the promised 1000 year Kingdom Age which Jesus taught his disciples to pray for, "Thy Kingdom Come"....... Jesus gave us a clue when the Rapture (Pre Trib.) will happen, he said no man can know the Day nor Hour. These Feasts were on God Time, via a Lunar Moon cycle. And as we know a moon has different phases, no one could know the exact day nor hour that the New Moon would come in, it could come in on a Tue. just before the Sunset, the Next day on Wed. or on Thursday just after sunset, so in a 25-26 hour period the skies could have given them a New Moon, and they thus had no clue on what day nor hour it would come, but they could understand the Sunrise and Sunset patterns. This is why Israel were on the Lunar Moon Calendar. But Israel could know withing a few day period when that New Moon was coming, of course, so they knew "THE SEASON" and so should we. Jesus will fulfill the Summer Harvest/Feast of Weeks by blowing a Trumpet or Calling his Bride hoe and ending the Harvest Season/Church Age. 5.) Feast of Trumps ( Israel sent men into the mountains to spy out the New Moon, once they saw it they starting blowing the Shofar in 11 sets of 9 or 99 times, then on the LAST TRUMP or the 100th Trump, the Harvest Season would end, and it also meant that the Feasts of Atonement and Tabernacles were very near.) 6.) Feast of Atonement (What is the 70th week meant to do? It is designed to get Israel to repent, and Zech. 13:8-9 tells us 1/3 repent, then in the very next verse in Zech. 14:1-2 we see the Day of the Lord Arrives, or God's Wrath, so Israel repents just before the DOTL falls. Now Jesus can return at the 2nd Coming and will have Jews saying Blessed is he that comes in the Name of the Lord like the end of Matt. 23 says will happen. 7.) Feast of Tabernacles (So, what does Tabernacle mean? It means to "DWELL WITH God", so Jesus is now fulfilling the Harvesting of Souls through the Church. He will call the Bride home via the Last Trump. Then Israel repents at the 1335, 45 days before the 1290 AoD, and 75 days before the Anti-Christ conquers Israel, thus Jesus will return and DWELL with Israel via the Kingdom Age for 1000 years. The 12 Feasts were meant to show us Israel's full future in history, and the Gentiles who accepted Jesus as the Messiah are to fulfill the Summer Church Age Feast. Jewish peoples will fulfill the other 6 Feasts via Yeshua/Jesus.

Overthinking it..........God confounding the Language simply limited knowledge from going forth speedily. Take a million computers and put a computer code in them where they can't communicate and you just stymied knowledge from being spread. Babylon itself is different, that is God referring unto Satan's Dark Kingdom of Confusion on earth. Rev. 16:19 mandates that is what it has to be. The Tower is totally different.

Question, why would building a TALL TOWER threaten God's desires for mankind on earth? I mean, they could never build it too high, heck no higher than what we have now, so what did the Tower of Babylon really symbolically mean? It meant KNOWLEDGE. By confusing the languages the knowledge of mankind could not become exponentially greater in a short timeframe, thus allowing God's 6000 year plan to come to fruition in full. As soon as we got Computers knowledge did what? ZOOM, ZOOM, ZOOM !! Because it overcomes language barriers and mathematical equations in a much faster way. The Computer/Internet made us one peoples worldwide again, working together to bring evil mankind's schemes to pass in unison. It was never a tower per se God was stopping, but the knowledge to do great things together, like building a tower. If God had not confounded the languages, who knows, we might very well have had first gotten Computers 4000 years ago instead of 50-100 years ago.

This has nothing to do with Syria, this little horn has THREE PROPHETIC UTTERANCES that have to all mesh together. The Assyrian is in reference to the Old Assyrian Empire, mostly Northern Iraq and Southern Turkey now with a very small slice of Syria mixed in. So, yes this man will have Old Assyrian blood in him, CHECK, Isaiah 10 so much as says this..........BUT, we have two other Prophetic data points that have to also become reality. Dan. 8:9 mandates this Little Horn must be born in Greece because of the Directions he conquers in. He conquers TOWARD the East or Seleucus/Turkey and TOWARDS the South or Ptolemy/Egypt and TOWARDS Israel. So, since God gave us, on purpose, a four way directional map via four generals, we can see he must conquer from the Northwest Corridor of these four generals kingdoms. Thus he has to be born in Greece and LOOK AT Dan. 11, why do people think we get every Greek King from Alexander the Great to Antiochus, and finally the AC (11:36-45) ? Because he is a Greek born man. Lastly, Dan. 7:7-8 also has to fulfilled, he has to arise to political power via the 10 horns (Completion = 10) that arise out of the Fourth Beasts Head (Complete Europe Revived = the E.U.). And lets shrink this down, a man with a Family that migrated from Turkey to Greece at some point in the last 2500 years, is born in Greece (in the last 40-60 years IMHO) which is in the E.U. and thus he is eligible to become the E.U. President. Prophesy solved. I wrote a blog on this 10 years ago. By the way, the 2300 is not 2300 days but 2300 Evening and Morning Sacrifices, the scripture says so, and since that is a twice a day event it is thus 1150 days, which fits inside the Beasts 1260 day rule.

Jesus was perfect because he was God the Redeemer, not because of any works per se. Jesus tells us to be perfect like the Father because our goal is to transform our lives from men living after the flesh to men living for the Spirit. We can be perfect if we live in Christ and heed his every thought and follow his voice, by not putting Him off to follow our own flesh, most do not even get close but its theoretically possible. How so? Because our old man Adam is born first but the New Man of the Spirit is born last, so God has forgiven all of our sins right? We can therefore chose never to sin again, YES........Our Flesh body is still corrupted by sin and can not enter heaven, but our Spirit man who is of God can enter Heaven. We can chose not to sin and our Spirit Man will remain pure, but of course that never happens, or rarely happens, God took Elijah but only hos Spirit Man. God took Moses but left his bones/body. I think you are confusing our Sin Flesh which can never be redeemed with our Spirit Man which has been Redeemed by Jesus' blood. We can chose to follow God and not to love sin.

We can't be in the Wrath of God, which is what Blade meant by saying there is no Anti-Christ out there, which is not the technical term, he should have stated no Beast, who comes on the scene as the Beast over Israel at that exact time frame. The Anti-Christ of course has to be alive pre 70th week in order to make the Covenant or Agreement with Israel (Israel joining the E.U. is that Dan. 9:27 Agreement IMHO) Now to answer the question in full, the 6th Vial entices the people (with the Mark of the Beast) to go to Israel or Armageddon in order to fight God/Jesus but they only do so via the Dragon/AC and FP lying unto them, it says so in the verses. Why must they be lied unto? (KEY......KEY POINT) Because as the 6th Seal shows, they are all hiding in caves (or other hiding places, lol) via God's Wrath, so in order to entice them to even go to Israel to TRY and kill all the Jews Satan has to lie to them, but it will not (of course) work if God's Wrath is still falling right? So, we know men can cross Modern Rivers easily right? Thus, it makes NO SENSE to say the Euphrates dries up so that they can cross it to get at Israel........BUT, if it is just a Metaphor for God's Wrath DRYING UP, then it all makes perfect sense, those cowards in the cave can now be enticed out, they can lie saying, LOOK, LOOK, LOOK, the Two-witnesses have DIED (end of the 2nd Woe) and then the 3rd Woe started (the 7 Vials are the 3rd Woe which emits from the 7th Trump), but God's then DRYS UP His Wrath and since the 2 Witnesses prayed down all the Wrath each time, they are fooled into thinking its all over, the Two-witnesses dying finally stopped all the Wrath, after all they watched on live TV as the Two-witnesses prayed down all of God's Wrath each time, just like Moses did in Egypt. So, they buy this lie an d head to Armageddon, and thus Jesus will show up at the 7th Vial and wipe out the Nations in Rev. 16:19, and God calls them Babylon the Great (Satan's Dark Kingdom of Confusion over Mankind). The Rapture (Departure of 2 Thess. 2:3) MUST HAPEN before God's Wrath can fall.

You have no clue about it, it seems, that tells me you really do not understand prophesy at all. And Paul wrote about it and Jesus explained it, you just can't dig it out because the whisper has spun you with a tall tale. I'm to the point its not even worthy taking on the debate, you guys just are not able to dig these truths out. It is what it is. But you will be proven wrong.

Yes sir, it is a translated word that does not mean Jesus was coming back SOON, He even says only the Father knows the day and hour, but he knows the plan, and he knows its roughly 2000 years away, so why did he use SOON? He did not say soon, its a misunderstanding of what that word means, and we can see this by looking at all the 4 or 5 words it can be defined as. The word actually means ZOOM, ZOOM, as in Fast, Speedily, In Haste etc. My Online English Bible translated from Greek word study link The Reuelation 602 of Iesus 2424 Christ, 5547 which 3739 God 2316 gaue 1325 z5656 vnto him, 846 to shewe 1166 z5658 vnto his y846 x848 seruants 1401 things which 3739 must 1163 z5748 shortly 1722 5034 come to passe; 1096 z5635 and 2532 he sent 649 z5660 and signified 4591 z5656 [it] by 1223 his y846 x848 Angel 32 vnto his y846 x848 seruant 1401 Iohn, 2491 Notice the TWO NUMBERS behind SHORTLY? Lets see what they mean. Think Tachometer or SPEED/FAST. #1722 ἐν en {en} a primary preposition denoting (fixed) position (in place, time or state), and (by implication) instrumentality (medially or constructively), i.e. a relation of rest (intermediate between G1519 and G1537); TDNT - 2:537,233; prep —Greek Word Study #5034 τάχος tachos {takh'-os} from the same as G5036; TDNT - n/a; n n —Greek Word Study 1) quickness, speed —Thayer's (New Testament Greek-English Lexicon) From the same as G5036; a brief space (of time), that is, (with G1722 prefixed) in haste:— + quickly, + shortly, + speedily. —Strong's (Greek Dictionary of the New Testament) #5034. So, look at the other words in the bunch, they all are speaking about a term (the Greek word TACHOS where we get Tachometer from) that implies SPEED, in Haste, Speedily, Quickly and SHORTLY, so why is shortly in there? It seems to be the odd man out right? No, It means Jesus is coming in a SHORT TIME BURST when God the Father sends him, meaning ZOOM, ZOOM, ZOOM, this is why DEEP DIVES in to original words have to be done my friend. So, EN in means Space or Time, so at a FUTURE TIME, when God sends Jesus he will return in a SHORT TIME FRAME (Shortly) or SPEEDILY, or IN HASTE or QUICKLY. I know people who go down rabbit holes because of this ONE VERSE, all because they refuse to put in the hard work it take to divide the holy word properly. It NEVER MEANT Jesus was returning Shortly or soon, it meant when he returns he will be here in a FLASH as in Zoom, Zoom.

Oh brother, so anyone who studies hard and gets the facts is a false prophet to you. The simplest Prophecy to understand is the Pre Tri. Rapture sister, when I see someone can not get that, believe me, it will be hard for me to ever trust that persons Prophetic advice. Now, they might can preach Salvation to the youth better than anyone I have ever seen, because even though many love to talk prophesy, most are not called unto it, and this its not a gift they will ever have, to some is given the gift of Faith, to some Wisdom, to others Prophesy. People have to know their calling sister.

That is not what is written, you just assume, it seems, that Revelation is in chronological order, IT IS NOT, so you made an erroneous assumption. All one has to do is look at all the 1260 day timelines ones to understand the book of Revelation can not be in chronological order, you trying to insist it has to be is not going to make it that way. You your first error is saying God says it is, when it is not and God never said it was. Rev. 8, 9 and 16 covers Good's 1260 days of Wrath.No3 lets pick out the other books that cover 1260 days. Revelation ch. 11 is the Two-witnesses 1260 day ministry, BUT they die before the Beast so their 1260 days have to start BEFORE the middle of the week hence they are the 1335 Blessing of Dan. 12 BUT.......its still a 1260 day Ministry for REASON. Rev. 12 sees the Dragon chasing Israel(Woman) for 1260 days. Rev. 13 tells of the Beasts 1260 day rule on earth. Rev. 17 says the 10 Kings rule ONE HOUR with the Beast and we know that has mean 1260 days because Rev. 13 says so. Rev. 18 Says Babylon (Whole World) is Judged (by God's Wrath) in ONE HOUR and in ONE DAY both reference 1260 days, the ONE HOUR in Rev. 17 and the DOTL lasts 1260 days. Trying to say that all fits in a chronological order is just an erroneous assumption sister. I been called unto Prophecy 40 years, I was told the Anti-Christ was in the world in 1986 in a vision. God has never led me wrong, but Satan will try to confuse the all important TIMELINES if we do not refuse to accept other men's opinions that can not be true, because of simple timeline guides and guardrails. These presentation pointers you make, do not mean you understand what was WRITEN per se, we all know it was written, the point I am making is you do not understand these timelines, but think you do. When you get to heaven you will know instantly you were in error sister. I will let a 10 year old blog of mine do away that misunderstanding sister. You trust in the KJV translators which lied and placed Falling Away in the book to try and call names to the RCC which they were insinuating were leaving the Faith behind. Lets see, both the RCC and Church of England at that time were evil, they both tortured people etc. etc. Is the Falling Away a False Teaching? I have evolved with much study on this. I used to argue to all that there had to be this great Falling Away also. All because of this one passage. 2 Thessalonians 2:3. I do agree that the world gets far more evil towards the end (now), as foretold in Romans chapter 1, and as Peter said, there will be scoffers in the last days etc. etc. But I do not think the true Church can "Fall Away", either you are of Christ/God or you are not, and will get left behind by the Bridegroom. Anyway, here is my understanding of 2 Thessalonians 2:3. “Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction…” – 2 Thessalonians 2:3 (NASB) This verse is used by many and they say it implies a "Falling Away" from the faith. But a guy named Tommy Ice has shed some exceptional light on this passage. Mr. Ice has pointed out that the Greek noun, apostasia, is used only twice in the New Testament. The other occurrence is in Acts 21:21 where it states that an accusation was made against Paul that he was “teaching all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake [apostasia] Moses.” The word is used in verb form a total of 15 times in the New Testament, and only three of these have anything to do with a departure from the faith (Luke 8:13, 1 Timothy 4:1, and Hebrews 3:12). In other settings, the word is used for departing from iniquity (2 Timothy 2:19), departing from ungodly men (1 Timothy 6:5), departing from the temple (Luke 2:27), departing from the body (2 Corinthians 12:8), and departing from persons (Acts 12:10 and Luke 4:13). This insight about the use and meaning of the word was certainly compelling, but the argument Mr. Ice presented that was most convicting was his revelation that the first seven English translations of the Bible rendered the noun, apostasia, as either “departure” or “departing.” They were as follows: 1.The Wycliffe Bible (1384) 2.The Tyndale Bible (1526) 3. The Coverdale Bible (1535) 4. The Cranmer Bible (1539) 5. The Great Bible (1540) 6. The Beeches Bible (1576) 7. The Geneva Bible (1608) Mr. Ice also noted that the Bible used by the Western world from 400 AD to the 1500s — Jerome’s Latin translation known as “The Vulgate” — rendered apostasia with the Latin word, discessio, which means “departure.” The first translation of the word to mean apostasy in an English Bible did not occur until 1611 when the King James Version was issued. So, why did the King James translators introduce a completely new rendering of the word as “falling away”? The best guess is that they were taking a stab at the false teachings of Catholicism. One other point Mr. Ice made that I think is significant is that Paul used a definite article with the word apostasia. The significance of this is emphasized by Daniel Davey in a thesis he wrote for the Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary: Since the Greek language does not need an article to make the noun definite, it becomes clear that with the usage of the article, reference is being made to something in particular. In 2 Thessalonians 2:3 the word apostasia is prefaced by the definite article which means that Paul is pointing to a particular type of departure clearly known to the Thessalonian church. In light of this grammatical point, Tommy observed that “the use of the definite article would support the notion that Paul spoke of a clear, discernible notion.” And that notion he had already identified in verse 1 when he stated that he was writing about “our gathering together to Him [Jesus].” This interpretation also corresponds to the point that Paul makes in verses 6 and 7 where he states that the man of lawlessness will not come until what “restrains” him “is taken out of the way.” And what it is that restrains evil in the world today? The Holy Spirit working through the Church. I think when the Church Departs, the Anti-Christ will be free to come to power. I do not think this has anything to do with a Falling Away. It is the Church Departing before the Anti-Christ is brought forth. The King James Bible changed the known understanding that has been around for 1500 some odd years. ------------------------------------ There will come a DEPARTURE of The Church BEFORE the DOTL or God's Wrath falls onto mankind on this earth, but if one reads to right, Paul is also saying the Anti-Christ has to show up BEFORE the DOTL also. Maybe that is what confuses you sister. Both the Departure/Rapture of the Church and the AC must show up before the DOTL (middle of the 70th week events) can come to pass, we know this because he makes the 7 year Agreement. So, of course he also shows up BEFORE God's Middle of the week Wrath falls on mankind. The Departure or Rapture happens when the makes an Agreement with Israel (and the Many nations in the Mediterranean Sea Region) whereas Israel joins the E.U.