The reason they have been broken off is because the rejected their Messiah and failed to enter into the Kingdom. The Kingdom was rejected by them as they refused to accept the New Covenant.
Mark1: 14 ,15 Says: Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
The Messiah had come to set up the Kingdom of God on earth, but they killed their Messiah instead. Then the clock stopped temporally.
God's attention then moved to the the Gentiles. He poured his Holy Spirit out and gave them a new heart. As for the Jews, God hardened their hearts that they should not receive salvation through Jesus Christ and the New Covenant of faith.
Rom. 11:8 According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear; unto this day.
The Israel has never accepted Jesus Christ as their God and Saviour. They have never received the baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire, and they have never entered into the Kingdom of God. In short, they are still under the law and unsaved because they do not see Jesus as fulfilment of the Law.
Rapture is when Jesus Christ comes for only his people. Only the believers that have been saved through Jesus Christ. The believers in Christ are the Church. It comprises of Jews and Gentiles. They have received the Holy Spirit and have been saved by Grace. Rapture is when all the believer�s (the Church) are taken out BEFORE the Tribulation, then only the unrepentant Gentiles and Jews remain. This means that the majority of Jews will be left behind.
Because they do not believe in Jesus and have refused to accept him as their Messiah, they will now be punished by God's wrath through the Tribulation which is also called a time of Jacob's (Israel's) trouble. God will then begin to deal with his "adulterous wife" and the clock will start up again concerning the Jews.
Hosea 2:2-5 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms. For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
Until the Jews come to Christ they are not saved. Once the believers are Raptured, then the wrath of God will be poured out upon the whole earth.
Are the Jews lost forever? No. God has sealed 144,000 Jews to preach to the Jews the salvation of Jesus Christ.
Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
The Jews are not waiting for the coming of Christ in the clouds. They are waiting for their Messiah (the Second Coming). During the Tribulation many will come to Christ accepting him as the true Messiah. Others that are still unrepentant will follow the antichrist. "We have no King but Caesar."
The unsaved Jews are not part of the church. Only through fire will they be refined like gold before the Lord. For the first time they will understand that the man they had put to death on the cross was their true Messiah when they receive the Holy Spirit for the first time.
Zech.12:10,11 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. In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem.
The wrath of God will during the Tribulation be poured out upon the unsaved left behind after the Rapture. The Bible states that us who all ready are saved and delivered from wrath and judgment will be spared from the Tribulation.
Rev. 3:10,11 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try (judge) them that dwell upon the earth.Behold, I come quickly.
1 Thess. 1:10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
We are saved from the ALL wrath. The wrath of hell fire and the wrath of the Great Tribulation of punishment. Through great pain and suffering, the birth of the Jewish Kingdom will come and is called the time of Jacob's Trouble/the Great Tribulation.
Isaiah 66:6-9 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies. Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child. Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children. Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.
Rev. 12:13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
Once Christ returns to the Mount of Olives for his people to establish his Jewish Kingdom, he will gather all his people to Jerusalem to submit before him.
Matt. 24:30-31 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
This is a kind of a Jewish Rapture if you like, but is not the true Rapture. Notice where it says, "And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet."
"A" trumpet means one of many. It is plural. This most likely the 7th trumpet sounded in Rev. 11. It is NOT the trumpet of Rapture. The Trumpet of God is called THE trumpet meaning the only one. Not one of many as seen in Revelation 11.
1Thess.4:16-18 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with THE trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
Some have also claimed that it is the trumpet is one of the seven seen in Rev. chapter11 because of the following scripture,
1Cor. 15:51-54 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the LAST trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. Vine's dictionary of New Testament words states,
"...'the last trump' is a military allusion familiar to Greek readers, and has no connection with the series in Rev 8:6 to 11:15 there is a possible allusion to Numbers 10:2-6 with reference to the same event."
The Bible says in Matt. 24:20-21 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. Notice that Jesus warns to pray that the flight should not be on a Sabbath day. Clearly this is warning to the Jews. Should we who are saved be fearful. No! Why is that? Because: "Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words."
Why should we comfort one another?
"For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him." 1 Thess.5:9
Yes! We the Bride of Christ will go to be with him in heaven and not be punished during the time of Jacob's trouble the Tribulation of God's wrath.
John 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
We will be in heaven with Jesus Christ and not on the earth with the antichrist and his satanic rule. We who are saved from wrath to come await the coming of Jesus and and to receive our rewards in heaven. We are not waiting for the Jewish Kingdom on earth brought forth with great pain and suffering. We look for the coming of Jesus and not the coming of the Messiah. Why is because we already know and believe in who he really is. That is the Lord of heaven; Jesus Christ the Son of God.
Yes! Come quickly Lord Jesus!
Richard Vizzutti