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The countdown to Jesus coming back has started! Are you prepared for him?
Posted : 14 Oct, 2010 04:54 PM
�For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.�- Jeremiah 29:11
2 Timothy 4:1-5 1In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: 2Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage�with great patience and careful instruction. 3For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. 5But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.
Matthew 24: We can see all these happening today!
1And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. 2And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. 3And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? 4And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. 6And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8All these are the beginning of sorrows. 9Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. 10And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. 11And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. 12And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. 13But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. 14And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. 15When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) 16Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: 17Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: 18Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. 19And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give milk in those days! 20But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: 21For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. 23Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. 24For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. 25Behold, I have told you before. 26Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. 27For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 28For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. 29Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: 30And 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. 31And 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. 32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: 33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. 34Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. 35Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. 36But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. 37But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 38For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, 39And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 40Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 41Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 42Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. 43But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. 44Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. 45Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? 46Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. 47Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods. 48But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; 49And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; 50The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, 51And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 24 is why the Jewish think the way they do today. They believed Jesus was referring to the destruction of the temple in 70 AD and he never returned during that time!
Are we doing God's Will sharing the gospel today?
Are we abiding in him today?
Are we bearing much fruits in today with others?
Is the church ready for the groom?
Will we know him when he comes back for us?
The first time they rejected him!
Pre-Trib is not going to happen Christians! This False Doctrine started in the mid 1800's from a book, not the Bible! My saying about this is Prepare for the worst and hope for the best!
We will face the Great Tribulation but not God's wrath unless we fall away first!
This is happening today with this new age. dominionist, joel's army, the heathy wealthy churches, all with the watered downed gospel! II Thessalonians 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2:2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 2:4 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. 2:5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 2:6And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 2:8 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 Revelation means
He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit said to the churches; He that overcomes shall not be hurt of the second death. Revelation 2:11
Today, the seal in of Daniel has been revealed to us. This makes all things revealed to us in the past 10 years as void and is useless for us Living in this Last Generation!
Bind up the testimony seal the law among my disciples. Isaiah 8:16
"The vision of the evenings and mornings which has been told is true; but keep the vision secret, for it pertains to many days in the future." Daniel 8:26
But you, Daniel, close up and seal the words of the scroll until the time of the end. Many will go here and there to increase knowledge." Daniel 12:4
1The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: 2Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. 3Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand. Revelation 1: 1-3
And he said to me,"Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is near Revelation 22:10
Verily I say unto you, this generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. There still are 20 prophecies that still has to be fulfilled, before Christ comes. They have been revealed to us to warn us and prepare us for his coming. Matthew 24:34
We should be telling others the gospel until he comes and know the end of times prophecy for others in the right order. If you wish to know more, I encourage you to visit www.thechristiananswer. There is over 400 pages for you to read.
Don't trust me or anyone else trust God in his
truth the holy bible!
God means what he says and says what he means!
Revelation Without Responsibility Given all of these commands that apply to God's servants to whom all of this was shown, is it not strange that the interpretations of most prophecy teachers assign them to someone else such as �believing Jews� or people �left behind�, leaving nothing for God's real servants to obey and be blessed by during the events that are predicted? A perfect example of this is the pre-tribulation rapture teaching. It would have you believe that all faithful Christians will be in heaven before the first seal of Revelation even happens, making its instructions and predictions completely inapplicable to us. (No wonder I get so many emails from Christians telling me to stop being distracted by prophecy and just preach the Gospel, not realizing they have effectively asked me to censor or at least ignore nearly one third of the Bible.) If it seems inconsistent to you that God would give his end times servants a vision of the future with instructions that they were to �keep�, only to take them off the earth before any of it happens, then I encourage you to follow your instincts and continue searching for an interpretation that does not have that inconsistency.
Conclusion The riddle of the confused state of Bible prophecy teachings is solved. Christian interpreters have overlooked many verses, some of which are quotes from Jesus (whose every word they should carefully be considering if they are his follower). His words contain the guidelines and instructions that must be followed in order to understand the sealed prophecies. Revelation finally puts the prophecies in order and gives you actions for survival through them �all� until Jesus comes. Merely being a Christian is not enough to understand or survive the prophecies, and ironically brings along many Scripture-breaking paradigms that act as barriers to complete, proper understanding. When it comes to any subject, the view that is the most believed or most popular is not necessarily the right one as one would assume. Truth is not decided by majority or consensus. Given all the Christian confusion over Bible prophecy, it should come as no surprise that this truism holds true here, too. Let literally-read, non-allegorized Scripture be your guide to the truth, rather than what is popular or what you have always believed or been taught, and you will be one of the �wise� few who God promised would understand and escape what is coming in the end times. Revelation. The timeline includes potential years of fulfillment and instructions on what God expects you, as one of his present or future faithful servants, to do. How the Antichrist Really Takes Control There is so much wild speculation on how the Antichrist comes to power. Some think he will parallel the �3� year ministry� of Jesus in every way to be a perfect counterfeit. Others expect him to be some charismatic figure already in obvious power today. Such ideas sound reasonable until you understand the literal fulfillments of Wormwood and the fall of Babylon coming that give rise to the Antichrist. From WWI we inherited the League of Nations, which failed to grab enough power to do any good. After WWII we conceived the United Nations, which certainly has had more power, but not the power to stop wars, let alone solve world problems. In fact, prophecy clearly tells us that WWIII is coming. But this time, something will arise as a direct result that grabs enough power to stop wars and also bring many solutions to the world�at a huge price. The breakdown of civilization from Wormwood's passage combined with the ravages of World War III will at last create such a dire survival emergency for the human race that the majority of nations will consent to being ruled by global government. This government, known as the Beast, will have the power to force everyone to be marked for commerce and as a pledge of allegiance and worship to the head of this government who claims to be God on earth. The claim to be God along with proof in the form of miracles, signs and wonders is the kicker, of course. Nevertheless, it is clear from the 6th trumpet war and Daniel 11's mention of the King of the North being troubled by tidings from the North (Russia) and the East (China), that the Antichrist will not have full submission, although clearly a majority of the nations at first. Russia, China and her allies as heirs to America's crown will have the most to lose in submitting to the Antichrist and look to not do so without a fight, which they will lose. With America destroyed and then Russia and China defeated, no one will be able to resist the Antichrist until the Messiah comes.
Daniel's 70 Weeks & The Great Tribulation
The Bible's Central Prophecy The 70 Weeks Prophecy of Daniel 9:24-27 is unquestionably a key prophecy of the Bible. It gives the timing of both the First and Second Coming of Israel's Messiah. It predicted the construction of the Second Temple and predicts the morning and evening sacrifices of the Third Temple and the Antichrist who will stop them and inhabit the temple.
It is from the 70th week of Daniel, as interpreted by Jesus in the Olivet Discourse, that the term �Great Tribulation� is derived. Simply put, without this prophecy a complete Revelation Roadmap could not be constructed.
Daniel 9:24-27 (HCSB) � 24 Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city�to bring the rebellion to an end, to put a stop to sin, to wipe away injustice, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy place. 25 Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince will be seven weeks and 62 weeks. It will be rebuilt with a plaza and a moat, but in difficult times. 26 After those 62 weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. The people of the coming prince will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come with a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations are decreed. 27 He will make a firm covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and offering. And the abomination of desolation will be on a wing of the temple until the decreed destruction is poured out on the desolator.�
If You Are Unfamiliar With Daniel's 70 Weeks Not surprisingly, my Revelation Roadmap is based on the 70 the Week of Daniel. Therefore, understanding the roadmap requires familiarity with this key prophecy. As it is so familiar and adequately explained by many other sources, I will skip explaining it in great detail here to allow more space for insights on other prophecies not found so easily elsewhere. For those who are totally unfamiliar with the 70 Weeks or why the 70th Week must be after a time gap and yet future, I can recommend some free articles by Thomas Ice. They explain much of the 70th Week from a literal approach, and highlight the problems with the allegorizers' approach (Preterism). (I'm a firm believer in that we can and must learn from everyone if we truly are diligently seeking the truth on a subject, regardless of our prejudices against views a teacher may hold on other points.) The 70 Weeks of Daniel by Thomas Ice at Rapture Ready  www.raptureready.com/featured/ice/ttcol.html (scroll down to �27. 70 Weeks of Daniel I� through �38. 70 Weeks of Daniel XII)
My Own View on the 70 Weeks As stated above, I do not agree 100% with everything Ice teaches. Here, then, is a brief overview of the defining points of my 70 Weeks understanding that may or may not differ from those of Thomas Ice. The reasons why I believe each are expounded in subsequent chapters. Time Gap Between 69th and 70th Week: Jesus said that the AoD, which is part of the 70th Week, is yet future. This means it did not immediately follow the 69th week already. Therefore, I see a clear gap allowed for and required between the 69th and 70th week and Scripture itself delineates it. Not only that, but several of the �Six Prophetic Purpose Clauses� of the 70 Weeks from verse 24 that Ice talks about are not literally fulfilled yet.
70th Week for End Times: Daniel 11:35-45 states that the Antichrist shall take over Jerusalem in the �time of the end� until God's wrath completes things. Daniel 8:9-17 identifies the Antichrist in Jerusalem ending the sacrifices and committing the abomination in the �time of the end.� Thus, contrary to what Preterists teach, we are still in the time gap. This requires a yet future 70th week with a wicked ruler seizing Jerusalem, stopping the sacrifices and setting up an abominable statue as Antiochus Epiphanes IV did to foreshadow or partially fulfill the 70th Week.
Are Sabbath Year Cycles: The 70 weeks are not just any set of seven years, but as anyone who has studied the Torah might suppose, are groups of seven years which end in a Sabbath year, just as the Sabbath year cycle does. The Bible and history support this.
�He� Who Makes the Covenant is the Antichrist: This can only be the Antichrist, because Daniel 11:31-36 describes the one who committed the first AoD as speaking despicable things against God, something Jesus would never do.
The Seven-year Covenant Is With Ten Kings, Not Israel: Amazingly, there is not one plain verse to support that the �covenant confirmed with the many� is between the Antichrist and Israel. The meaning of the word HaRabim translated �the many� in Daniel 9:27 is ambiguous and inconsistently used elsewhere in Daniel for peoples other than Israel (Dan 11:33, 39; 12:3).
There is, however, good support that the covenant mentioned in Daniel 9 is the same as the secret covenant between the Antichrist and the ten rulers detailed in Revelation 17 for destroying America and dominating the world in her place.
Confirmation of the Covenant Not Public: There is no sign that the start of the seven-year covenant is a public event that we can watch for and respond to. To the contrary, Jesus pointed to an event 3� years later as the visible signal of the GT: the AoD. If it were a conspiracy between the Antichrist and these other men of power to rule together after destroying America as Revelation 17 describes, then by no means would it be public. This could explain why Jesus did not tell us to watch for any treaty as the earliest warning sign. Abomination of Desolation Was and Will Be a Statue at the Temple (Image of the Beast): There is surprisingly much confusion on the AoD considering that Daniel clearly references two fulfillments of this, including one historical fulfillment by Antiochus (Dan 11:31) and one for the �time of the end� (Dan 9:27=Dan 8:12-17=Dan 12:9-11). It seems safe to say that this will be the Image of the Beast that the False Prophet commands to be made of the Antichrist for worship (and he also brings to life) given that Antiochus, as the type of the Antichrist, put up a statue of Zeus Jupiter for his AoD.
The 69th Week Predicts the Start of Jesus' Ministry, Not the End: Daniel 9:25's 69 weeks �until Messiah the prince� are interpreted by some to have ended with Jesus' death or triumphal entry on Palm Sunday. But Daniel 9 says he died after 69 weeks, not at. He was publicly proclaimed by John the Baptist to be the Lamb of God at his baptism so this is a better natural fit for the first fulfillment of �69 weeks until Messiah the Prince�. We will see later that the historic Sabbath year cycle confirms this. As does the Gospel account of when Jesus read from Isaiah in the synagogue at Nazareth proclaiming it was a Sabbath year right after his baptism by John the Baptist. No �360-day Prophetic Calendar� Basis: You may have seen date setting based on turning the 70 Weeks into years multiplied by a �360 day year prophetic calendar� value which supposedly allows you to pinpoint the very day of Jesus' �triumphal entry� (usually in some year after 30 AD).
The major problem with this is that there is no such thing as a prophetic calendar used or defined in Scripture, but this belief comes from allegorizing the literal 1260 days and 42 months of the Tribulation because they do not presently fit our 365�-day year reality (but they will literally fit after Wormwood passes).
The 69th Week is a Dual Prophecy: The 69 weeks not only predict the year by which Jesus would be cut off, but also give us the literal week into his ministry after which he was cut off. This would explain why the word seven alone was used without a qualifier such as �years�. Michael Rood's �70 Week Ministry of the Messiah� series first alerted me to this possibility. It provided the answer to the problem I was having with a 3 BC birth of Messiah, a 30 year age at start of his ministry in a historically confirmed Sabbath year, and a death in 30 AD followed by exactly 40 years of cessation of miracles in the temple service before the destruction of it in 70 AD (as the Talmud records). Those time points leave only room for a 1�-year ministry. It appears that the traditional �3� year ministry� is based on two misinterpreted or mistaken verses in the Book of John, which seem to refer to the Feast of Passover but do not The GT is only the Second Half of the 70th Week: You always hear about the �seven-year tribulation�. It often makes me cringe when I hear it because in six places the Bible gives it a length of 3� years.
I pray you get a better understand, now let all us spread the Good News in a loving christ like way!
Praise him everyday, because he is getting excited because our God is getting ready to close his book forever and Jesus is getting ready for his bridge.
Are we going to be ready to receive his coming?
His first coming didn't!
Whether you believe me or not I expect you to disern all things with God's Holy Word. Many believers believe all prophecy has already been fulfilled, if that was the case, why is Revelation in the Bible?
All I ask is watch for this next prophecy below to be fulfilled soon. This is the last one before the ones in Revelation!
The next major prophecy will be the Middle East War that is described in Psalm 83, Zech 12, and Isaiah 17. Israel will win in a single day with God�s help as in past wars (Isaiah 17:13-14) by bringing out the nukes in the Samson Option before America or Russia can get involved. Iran's nuclear program under Ahmadinejad may bring it about. This will make possible many things possible such as gatherings on the Temple Mount and the building of the Third Temple. God mean what he says and says what he means? You can see what Iran is doing today concerning her neighbor, however this will be involve with many nations against Israel!
After this has been fulfilled watch for the 70th week of daniel
Blessing to you:waving:
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