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Month: January, 2013

in the last days perilous times shall come

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. “  2 Timothy 3:1-5

We’re told by Timothy how people will be toward one another in the last days,  and its not dissimilar to where we find ourselves today, yet many of these characteristics are borne out of a collective culture that has individual freedoms remaining and if not being outright affluent, then at least having some amount of disposable time and interests which seemingly is in contrast to a world on the edge of destruction as were shown in Revelation Chapter 6 and later,

“And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.” Matthew 24:12

How then, do we also arrive at the following destruction at the end:

“The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.” Isaiah 24:5-6

The Earth is cursed with a curse at the end, and it is specifically as a result of the breaking of the Laws and Ordinances relating to the land and its restitution by God under those laws with the physical return of both “thy people,” Israel and “thy holy city” Jerusalem in the generation that follows its restoration at the time of the end,

The nations of the world divide his land as we’re told in the books of Joel and Zephaniah, restored the second time as we’re told in Isaiah 11,

“And 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.” Matthew 24:2

“And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.” Leviticus 26:31

It should be noted,  this was a private conversation Jesus had with his disciples, it was not part of his message to Israel at that time, and comes after telling them the Temple and Israel would be desolate with not one stone left standing, fulfilling the law of Moses just as he warned them in Leviticus 26,

“Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.  Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.  But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For 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, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

But 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.

Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.”  Matthew 24:32-44

Israel is the fig tree,

And from the words of Jesus, a certain day is coming that is “as the days of Noah” and “as it was in the days of Lot” where it was a blue sky day, there was some appearance of normalcy in the world and in one day it all changed, compare:

“Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;  But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.  Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.”  Luke 17:28-32

His bodily return to the Earth, to the mount of Olives, where every eye will see him, is not the same day being referred to above,  this is another time, a separate event and the world is much different and darker having just gone through the great tribulation where if those days were not cut short, “no flesh would be saved alive,”

This day instead coincides or happens immediately in advance of  the “son of perdition” being revealed, for which we’re told in the book of Revelation he receives power for 42 months, 1260 days,

“Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;  And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; “ 2 Thessalonians 1:6-9

“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; 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.

Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.  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: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.  ”  2 Thessalonians 2:3-12

From the revealing of both “the son of man” and “the son of perdition,” there is a set time still remaining to be accomplished for how long he must receive power and then its as its written in Zechariah:

“And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.”  Zechariah 14:4

For 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. For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. Immediately 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:  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.”   Matthew 24:27-31

a great crashing from the hills

“And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.”  Zephaniah 1:10

The timing to complete the 490 years (7×70) determined upon Israel as Daniel was told in Chapter 9 is counting from two requirements,

1. ‘thy people’ Israel restored
2. ‘thy holy city’ Jerusalem restored

Both conditions have to be met. The first time was March 14th 445 BC and led to the Messiah arriving on schedule in 32 AD after 483 years (7 weeks and 62 weeks) and being cutoff “but not for himself” yet it was at “62 weeks” or 434 years, Jesus proclaimed the 49 years for the Jubilee and the Church, its the Gospel, its his life, he declared this Jubilee when he began his ministry reading from Isaiah 61, and he proclaimed the ‘acceptable year of the lord’ but Israel rejected it, they did not know the time of their visitation and their house was left desolate, they should have known, they were told precisely when and how their Messiah would come, and they were held accountable. The kingdom went into the spirit where “a thousand years is as one day’ as we’re told in Psalm 90 and 2 Peter 3:8  to illustrate  the manner and timing of how Jesus will return.

“Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.”  Isaiah 29:6

Satan meant his rejection for evil but look what God did with it, you and I likely wouldn’t be alive in the world without it, he’s long suffering that none should perish,

“The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.  The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. “ Psalm 77:17-18

For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the Lord of hosts.  Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The Lord shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.  A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the Lord hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the Lord.  Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.”  Jeremiah 25:29-32

Jesus was left with nothing in the physical world and is ruling in the spirit at the right hand of the Father, interceding for us, until he returns with (I believe) another Jubilee, and redeems the physical Earth as a son of man, kinsman of Adam, as we’re shown in Revelation 4 and 5 and Daniel 7, but to do so he has to follow the precise conditions for the Jubilee outlined in Leviticus Chapter 25, which requires three things,

1. When ye shall come into the land which I shall give you,
2. Count seven sevens or 49 years (exactly 17,640 days)
3. Then on Yom Kippur, the 10th day of the seventh month, declare the Jubilee,

I believe there are 56 years remaining to be completed upon Israel of the 490 years determined from when Jesus fulfilled the Feast of First Fruits. With the last seven years being what we all know is coming and the last half (1260 days) being the time of Jacobs Trouble, what Jesus called “the Great Tribulation,”

“And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: ”  Revelation 14:2

May 14th 1948 was important prophetically, when Israel was restored as a nation, but it was June 7th, 1967 and the restoration of Jerusalem, that both conditions above were met.

“And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters:”  Ezekiel 43:2

We should all prayerfully consider what this pattern of days could mean under the law of Moses, ( this is only conjecture) and perhaps its why Satan seeks to divide Jerusalem, undo what God has done there, to prevent the requirements from coming to the full, and its why he seeks to change the times and seasons (Gods times and seasons) and to break the Laws and Ordinances, the Everlasting Covenant, see Isaiah Chapter 24, the covenant is tied to the physical land and will legally revert to the original owner (God) with another Jubilee, and then “the court will sit” and the deed is handed to Jesus, and its why Satan is thrown out of Heaven, and its why he knows he has only a short time,

“But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise,  .   2 Peter 3:10

Counting from the mid-point of a 7000 year (week) pattern:

|Sunday|Monday|Tuesday|Wednesday|Thursday|Friday|Saturday|
|–1000–|–1000—|–1000–|—-1000—-|—1000—|–1000–|–1000–|
|–———–3500 years———-| March 14th, 445 BC

“And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.”  Daniel 12:7

March 14,  445 BC, as the starting point of the 490 years (or 70 sevens) determined per Daniel Chapter 9, is 69 sevens (x360 days) or 173, 880 days exactly counting to  April 6th, 32 AD, while September 27, 2 BC is precisely 11, 880 days to the very same day.

March 14th, 445 BC                 |—-483 years—-| April 6th,32 AD
September 27, 2 BC                             |33 years| April 6th,32 AD

Of the 70 Weeks or 490 years determined per Daniel 9:25,

|-49-|–434–| = 483 years total to April 6th, 32 AD, 49 with the Jubilee which was rejected and fell upon the Church leaving 56 years remaining of the 490 when Messiah was cutoff or |-49-|-7-|  =  490 years

Jerusalem Restored |——49 years——|Yom Kippur 2015
Jerusalem Restored |——49 years——|–2520–|-–40–|Rosh Hashanah 2022

“And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.” Ezekiel 1:24

April 6th, 32 AD is exactly 17 years, or 6120 days (x360) to Wednesday on a 7000 year/week pattern, or being day 1,440,000 coming to January 6th 49 AD, leaving 7000 more days and then 888 days to the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple in 70 AD just as Jesus described,

7000 days after the 2000 years after Jesus came out of the tomb
April 13th, 32 AD |———-2000 years–———| 7000 days| September 26, 2022

7000 days:
July 28th, 2003 |-800-| Yom Kippur
July 28th, 2003 |-800-|-1800-|Rosh Hashanah
July 28th, 2003 |-800-|–3600–|Rosh Chodesh Elul
July 28th, 2003 |-800-|–-3600–-|-–40-–|Yom Kippur
July 28th, 2003 |———-3500——–| February 25, 2013 Purim
July 28th, 2003 |———-3500——–|——–3500——–|Rosh Hashanah
July 28th, 2003 |–800–|–-3600-–|-–40-–|–2520–|-–40–|Rosh Hashanah

Fifty-six years overlapped with the 7000 days:
July 28th, 2003 |–800–|–-3600-–|-–40-–|–2520–|-–40–|September 26, 2022
June 7th,  1967 |———17640————|–2520–|-–40–|September 26, 2022

|—————–4000 years———| 7000 days | 888 days | August 12, 70 AD, third day
|—————–6000 years——————————-| 888 days | September 26, 2022

and death shall flee from them

Hell, Hades, Sheol, Tartarus, the Abyss, the Bottomless Pit, the Lake of Fire, Gehenna, places of torment, its a common arrogance that God should behave as we expect him with regard to the spirit and eternal judgement.

To expect a loving omnipotent God would never require punishment for those uncovered is a way that seems right to our understanding, but as Jesus recounted the story of Lazarus, we have Moses and the prophets and now with the Gospels we have even more than the rich man had for consideration, we are without excuse,

When Jesus returns it will be with “the day of vengeance of our God” and with the Jubilee, then both the Beast and False Prophet are thrown alive into the lake of fire, where Satan catches up with them one-thousand years later,

“And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?”  Matthew 8:28

Believers are in this world but not of it,  its our choice only to accept his grace, and its his grace that saves us, God is sovereign, his ways are not our ways, don’t ask for his justice instead of his mercy or we would all perish,

Satan desired to give Jesus a way out from the punitive measures of (our) sin, away from suffering and death to obtain the kingdom of the flesh immediately, but Jesus quoted scripture (himself, the word) until he departed,

I’ve always suspected that eternal torment is why God brooded over the creation, knowing that many were always going to choose evil, but he knew you and me and everyone that was, is and ever will be alive in the world, and we were always supposed to be alive, this is omnipotence,

There are ‘principalities and powers’ and rulers of darkness in high places for which we believers are in spiritual battle against, the war is raging whether the participants are aware or not.

And why understanding prophecy is so important is because the one telling us the end from the beginning is also describing in very physical and direct terms the extreme punitive measures to be meted out not only upon his people (Israel) who having failed the provisions of the Law and Ordinances and being punished in the flesh (in the here and now) and in fact were punished from 70 AD until 1967 with the destruction of Jerusalem and the diaspora, and further for which we have in this past month (December 2012) witnessed for ourselves how the god of this world is attempting to undo that very restoration from the physical punitive measures God enacted in keeping his ordinances with Israel, whereby God will use them to complete the covenant which is tied to the land as much as to the people with whom it was promised, and then equally for the Earth, its inhabitants,  and the final Jubilee restoration of all things under the law as recounted in Daniel Chapter 7 and Revelation Chapters 4 and 5.

The “court will sit” as we’re told in Daniel Chapter 7, and when the judgement begins and with Jesus in the role of our kinsman of Adam, who having inserted himself into the holy framework of the Laws and Ordinances which he himself provided, alone is able to redeem this world away from a failed Adam, who erred in giving it to Satan and the world to its certain destruction,

To believers,  all of whom being his Church, in the spirit with his Kingdom and granted all power to bind and loose in the spirit on the Earth, and not in the flesh being always Israel,  then believers who have the blessed hope of being found in the Lambs Book of Life written (before) the foundation of the world, for which the second death has no power,

“And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.” Revelation 9:6

I believe this verse was written for those who expect and desire for this world to be all there is, a life of no accountability and the willful resentment even for the consideration of it, then blissful nothingness,

And when they “shall see these things begin to come to pass” as we’re told in Mark 13:29. The destruction and judgement on the Earth at the time of End, the last days, coming precisely as Jesus said, then instead of lifting their heads and looking up, and without having a deeper knowledge of why these days have come, they’ll be troubled but without understanding to find their way,

They’ve exchanged the truth for (the) lie, instead relying on their own supposed worldly enlightenment, riding on their natural experience without the spirit to illuminate, but prophecy fulfilled is available as a witness even to the spiritually blind,

They desire to die, but something in them will understand (maybe even for the first time) that they cannot, they will be accountable to a just God, and they can still be saved, this is the conflict

it’s always been our arrogance keeping his grace from our understanding, we can only take the pardon granted to us freely by the one who died in our place so we wouldn’t have to face the second death,

“The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.” 2 Peter 2:9-10

“Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.” Revelation 20:14-15

“then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them, Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are: Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.” Luke 13:23-28

Counting from the mid-point of a 7000 year (week) pattern:

|Sunday|Monday|Tuesday|Wednesday|Thursday|Friday|Saturday|
|–1000–|–1000—|–1000–|—-1000—-|—1000—|–1000–|–1000–|
|–———–3500 years———-| March 14th, 445 BC

March 14,  445 BC, as the starting point of the 490 years (or 70 sevens) determined per Daniel Chapter 9, is 69 sevens (x360 days) or 173, 880 days exactly counting to  April 6th, 32 AD, while September 27, 2 BC is precisely 11, 880 days to the very same day.

March 14th, 445 BC                 |—-483 years—-| April 6th,32 AD
September 27, 2 BC                             |33 years| April 6th,32 AD

Of the 70 Weeks or 490 years determined per Daniel 9:25,

|-49-|–434–| = 483 years total to April 6th, 32 AD, 49 with the Jubilee which was rejected and fell upon the Church leaving 56 years remaining of the 490 when Messiah was cutoff or |-49-|-7-|  =  490 years

Jerusalem Restored |——49 years——|Yom Kippur 2015
Jerusalem Restored |——49 years——|–2520–|-–40–|Rosh Hashanah 2022

April 6th, 32 AD is exactly 17 years, or 6120 days (x360) to Wednesday on a 7000 year/week pattern, or being day 1,440,000 coming to January 6th 49 AD, leaving 7000 more days and then 888 days to the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple in 70 AD just as Jesus described,

7000 days after the 2000 years after Jesus came out of the tomb
April 13th, 32 AD |———-2000 years–———| 7000 days| September 26, 2022

7000 days:
July 28th, 2003 |-800-| Yom Kippur
July 28th, 2003 |-800-|-1800-|Rosh Hashanah
July 28th, 2003 |-800-|–3600–|Rosh Chodesh Elul
July 28th, 2003 |-800-|–-3600–-|-–40-–|Yom Kippur
July 28th, 2003 |———-3500——–| February 25, 2013 Purim
July 28th, 2003 |———-3500——–|——–3500——–|Rosh Hashanah
July 28th, 2003 |–800–|–-3600-–|-–40-–|–2520–|-–40–|Rosh Hashanah

Fifty-six years overlapped with the 7000 days:
July 28th, 2003 |–800–|–-3600-–|-–40-–|–2520–|-–40–|September 26, 2022
June 7th,  1967 |———17640————|–2520–|-–40–|September 26, 2022

|—————–4000 years———| 7000 days | 888 days | August 12, 70 AD, third day
|—————–6000 years——————————-| 888 days | September 26, 2022