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because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation

What is Satan doing?

Doesn’t he know he’s already lost? Is he just so inexplicably evil and the world then waxes worse and worse under his influence until God finally puts an end to him with some cataclysmic unknowable return to the Earth?

Well I say both yes and no, it wont come as a complete surprise except to those the book of Revelation calls earth dwellers.  Those where everything they know, understand and desire is right here and now in their physical existence, the spirit is a mystery to them and there is no understanding or light in their eyes,

However what Satan is attempting to do is not as simple as being evil for its own sake,  its what we’re being shown in greater detail in the books of Daniel and Revelation (and in the Psalms, Isaiah and Zephaniah and elsewhere)

The Laws and Ordinances of Moses are the legal mechanisms governing this physical Earth which Satan must adhere and is bound by for his present authority, and do not misunderstand, this is not for the Church, we are not under the Law of Moses, the Church is not a part of that end which is coming upon all flesh after the transgressors have come to the full and the time given to the Gentiles is complete.

Jesus came to fulfill the Law, not do away with it,

“Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.” Matthew 5:17

“And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: . . .” Daniel 9:26

After 62 sevens, 434 years,

Jesus was cutoff so that you and I could be purchased into the Kingdom of God (in Heaven) born into the spirit and brought out of this fallen world, not to the throne of David over the Earth, this is still his inheritance and it was stolen from him.  Jesus was left with nothing in the flesh, even his clothes were taken from him when he hung on the cross,

But for Israel in 32 AD, that generation did not pass away by any means, they paid for it with their blood and with the desolation of the city and Temple August 10-12th 70 AD, which took place precisely 14,000 days after April 13th, 32 AD .  The very same distance in time they wandered about in the wilderness under Moses.

“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.” Luke 19:44

The Church is not Israel and has not replaced Israel on this Earth. The Church is in a very special place, elevated and set on a pedestal. Paul understood this and was amazed at what the Church had been given and understood its purpose and destiny alongside Christ as his bride.

Those that believe the Church is now Israel are the same ones that Jesus refers to in Revelation Chapter 3 as those that ‘say they are Jews and are not’ unfortunately this heresy (replacement theology) has been prevalent for a long time as the default heritage of many mainstream denominations and the source of much antisemitism.

So what is Satan really doing? Is he trying to rule the Earth?  He already rules over it. Is he hard at work trying to install a puppet called the antichrist? He already has all the nations and kingdoms of the Earth and antichrist (as a spirit) is already at work in the world.  What purpose is served by installing someone or some (thing) over them all,

But there is more to what he thinks he can do legally, he will make a covenant with the transgressors, (that would first have to be ‘brought back from the sword’ by God) this is where his ‘Man of Sin’ enters,  for Israel to choose his ‘Son of Perdition’ over their Messiah for their peace and security.  They must first be restored (by God as promised) then Israel will have (at that time) come to their full. This false ‘covenant’ will have the net effect of attempting to change the set times and seasons that both provide for and limit Satan’s authority and activity, it brings his end and ultimately his torment (after 1000 years)

When that mechanism is broken,  could those same limits holding things in check also be removed or undone?  I believe this is when the Earth will be ‘cursed with a curse’ as were shown in Isaiah Chapter 24.  Bad things that had in the past always seemed to be dispelled or dispersed before they became global:  epidemics, weather patterns, economic upheavals, crop failures,  famines etc.,  before some terrible calamity should impact the entire world at once, that binding will now be loosed.  I believe this is what we’re seeing when we see the Seven Seals being ‘loosed’ in the book of Revelation.

This is about a future Jubilee coming to the restored land and the world attempting to undo that restoration under the influence of Satan.

“I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.” Hosea 5:15

God is Holy and will always act in a manner that is Holy. God is a covenant keeping God, he makes and keeps covenants.  God cannot be unholy. Satan understands this far better than most of us and it has been an advantage to his activity and influence over the Earth, that is, always knowing how your opponent will react to certain criteria, but Satan is no equal opposition to the work of God, hardly.  Satan does not know the future or what the spirit will do or what the Spirit speaks to the Churches or to us individually in dreams and visions (as we’re told by the Prophet Joel would come)  and this has been going on since the very first Pentecost (which came 10 days after Jesus ascended to Heaven and sat down next to the Father)

Nothing has changed since that time, since 32 AD in the Spirit, or 70 AD in the flesh when Israel was given space to understand,

So what IS going to change and when?

Those areas which are not written as a legal document and given expressly by the Spirit, Satan cannot understand. Those areas in the bible written by the inspiration of the Spirit which require the Holy Spirit to unseal, to unveil, to make connections to reassemble, which are about to become known. Its how Jesus told Peter, ‘flesh and blood has not revealed this to you’

Satan rules over this world, over entire regions and nations and whole empires, he rules them with his ‘principalities and powers.’  Jesus showed us that Satan’s kingdom is not divided despite the appearance from the outside that it is, where it has been a grinding down, a historical wasteland of centuries of wars and political intrigue and nation against nation seeking temporal power.

Satan is attempting to retain the Earth over the limiting mechanism of the Holy Laws and ordinances which have a specific conditional timing element outlined within,  of which will resolve with a Jubilee restoration by returning ownership to God in both a legal and Holy manner.  God will then begin the proceedings, the court ‘will sit’ as we’re shown in Revelation Chapters 4, 5 and 6 and Daniel Chapter 7. The court is in session to adjudicate the legal earthly (human) ownership from Adam back to God and then who? or which person? can now meet the conditions to restore and redeem as a near Kinsman of Adam? or it must be cast away, being unregenerate, as dead and to be destroyed?  Only Jesus can qualify, this is why he referred to himself repeatedly as the ‘Son of Man’ as it has to be a man, a descendant of Adam, our new Adam,  who will not falter and cannot fail, and with the full knowledge that he would be rejected and cutoff from this physical Earth and that only he alone would be eligible when that future court date came due,

The Church sits today with Jesus at the right hand of the Father, rejected out of this world and cutoff with nothing in the flesh, (until)

Those of us alive (now) are operating with his Spirit, the Holy Spirit is hindering the full operation of evil in a world given over legally to Satan until a set time and a very specific set of circumstances are met and fulfilled on the Earth. This is why Satan can stand in Heaven today and accuse the brethren (legally) we are operating and interfering in his sphere of power, we are sons and daughters of Adam, alive in the flesh, yet reborn with the Spirit that interfaces directly with the very one who created and ultimately owns all when the fullness of the transgressors timing is reached, bypassing Satan’s understanding and knowledge.  And that direct interface, with the physical manifestations which can sometimes occur via extreme acts of faith, Satan can and does object too,

This will continue as we’re shown in Daniel Chapter 9, (until) the ‘transgressors are come to the full’ the transgressors of the Law were always that sole nation on this Earth that could transgress,  the only one to which it was given, Israel, and they have and are paying for it as prophesied,

“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 21:24

“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 Thessalonians 2:3

God restored Israel in 1948 and then restored Jerusalem (Judea and Samaria) in 1967 and we know from scripture that at some future point this world will undo that restoration for some supposed ‘peace’ agreement,

Isaiah 28 calls it a ‘covenant with death’

At the time of the end, we’re told that Jerusalem will become a ‘burdensome stone’ bringing destruction ‘upon them all’ that is, upon ALL nations that choose to involve themselves impeding Gods restoration work,

This world, the United Nations, all the nations of the Earth and with unclean spirits inhabiting its leaders ruling over these nations, will all be of one mind to divide the land, to separate the restoration that is presently bringing the transgressors (Israel) to the full,  which will allow the Messiah, the Holy one of Israel to legally reclaim his rightful inheritance under the Jubilee restoration of all things, this is why he returns as the ‘vengeance of the Temple.’ Jesus is the Temple made flesh and rejected, the title-deed has been restored but the world is trying to impugn and encumber it away from its rightful, lawful and legal owner who has paid much and suffered much providing for its restoration and for the restoration of all things which includes all those that belong to him.

Satan has authority on this physical Earth until the time of the end, and (I believe) until three conditions are met and broken:

1, Israel as a people are restored to the land and then Jerusalem as a city is restored, (which appears to be with the same distance in timing, 19 years apart as they were taken away from Israel in 606 and 587 BC with the three sieges of Nebuchadnezzar) together providing the two conditions required in Daniel Chapter 9 to count the time determined at 70 weeks, the 490 years. 434 years were counted at the cross, ‘after 62 weeks shall Messiah be cutoff’ 49 years were accepted by Jesus but rejected by Israel and instead brought the Gospel to the gentiles, the Gospel is the Jubilee and thus allowing for another 49 years (a Jubilee) for Israel and Jerusalem.   The promises are tied to the physical land as well as to David, and then the final seven years remaining which most of us are aware of called the tribulation with the last half (3.5 years) being what Jesus himself called the ‘great tribulation’

2, a Jubilee is acknowledged in Heaven following the legal conditions being met precisely per Leviticus Chapter 25: ‘when you come into the land that I shall give you..’ then count seven times seven years (even 49 years) and only God can know when his conditional timing is acceptable, but we can know that it must occur on a future Yom Kipper (10th day of the seventh month) and only after all of the conditions have been met,

3, The covenant is broken, hindered, encumbered in some manner between this world and a restored Israel via some manner of agreement, this is what I believe we’re witnessing approaching today as being pushed for in world affairs,  Israel is divided, Jerusalem is divided or both, the restoration is being undone, Satan is seeking to change the set times and seasons provided by God, to extend his ownership outside of the limiting Holy mechanisms of the Laws and Ordinances enacted on the Earth, the very ones which provided for the coming of the Messiah to this fallen Earth to redeem us and which also provided the punitive measures enacted against the transgressors of the Law (Israel of 32 AD) and then finally bringing the second restoration here since June 7th 1967, these are all interconnected events despite being thousands of years separated in time, this is why it will mean the end of Satan’s authority if he does not hinder or stop this prophesied process from coming to its completion.

It is my belief, that it is the attempted undoing of that authority on the Earth, the breaking of the ‘Everlasting Covenant’ (Isaiah Chapter 24) that brings the time of the end,

I believe this is the very event that is being adjudicated in Heaven beginning in Revelation Chapter 4, where the “court will sit” (see Daniel Chapter 7) and where Jesus takes the scroll, the title-deed to the Earth from the right hand of the Father. He then assumes legal ownership over the physical Earth (all of Creation) for which the world rejected him and faced eternal night, were it not for these Holy Laws established by God to overturn and to govern the creation, providing a way back from death when there was no way.

Today Jesus sits at the right hand side of the father, until he makes the nations of this world his footstool. This is shown to us in Psalm 2. And this is whats happening at the time of the end, at the close of the age.

Jesus is being given the Earth legally in the flesh, and Satan is attempting to hinder that judgement by seeing to it that the mechanisms (in the flesh, with a restored Israel) are encumbered, impugned or broken by a separate agreement with his authority as presently empowered legally over the greater part of the Earth,

I will declare the decree

“Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.

Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.” 

Psalm 2:1-8

and the year of my redeemed is come

The book of Job is about evidencing what faith is (to us), despite how everything and everyone in this world would have you believe something natural over what the spirit reveals, trust him always and he will bring you in,

Satan is able to stand in Heaven.  God gave Adam legal authority over the Earth, who in turn gave that authority to Satan. When the Earth or those in it are being discussed, Satan can stand in Heaven accusing those operating within his dominion (believers)

Jesus gave his bride authority to bind ‘principalities and powers’ on this Earth, (though how many and how often believers claim this authority is questionable) notwithstanding, Satan has legitimate authority on this physical Earth until the time of the end, and (I believe) until three very specific conditions are met and then violated by the nations under Satan’s influence,

1 – a – Israel restored, b – Jerusalem restored, together providing the two conditions in Daniel Chapter 9 to count the time (determined) 70 weeks or 490 years. 434 years were counted at the cross, 49 years were accepted by Jesus but rejected by Israel and instead brought the Gospel to us, it (and he) is the Jubilee, leaving 49 years (a Jubilee) and then the final seven years remaining which (today) we all hear so much about called ‘the tribulation’ (434 + 49 + 7 = 490 years)

2 – A Jubilee is acknowledged in Heaven following the conditions being met, (that is) met precisely per Leviticus Chapter 25: “when you come into the land that I shall give you.. “ then count seven times seven years (49 years) and only our Father in Heaven can know when this is acceptable,

3 – The Everlasting Covenant is broken, hindered, encumbered in some manner between this world and a restored Israel via an agreement, that is,  Israel is divided, Jerusalem is divided or both, the restoration is being undone, Satan is seeking to change the times and seasons, to extend his ownership outside the limiting Holy mechanisms of the Laws and Ordinances enacted on the Earth, the very Laws which provided for the coming of the Messiah and the punitive measures of the transgression, and then the second restoration itself,

Its the attempted undoing of that authority, the breaking of the ‘Everlasting Covenant’ (Isaiah Chapter 24) that brings the time of the end, this is what Jesus called the ‘Great Tribulation’ and it comes (I believe) as whats being adjudicated beginning in Revelation Chapter 4, where the “court will sit” (see also Daniel Chapter 7) and where Jesus takes the scroll (title deed) from the right hand of the Father.  Jesus assumes ownership over the Earth, as a man, fulfilling the Kinsman Redeemer provisions under the law.

Jesus as the second Adam, returning bodily when the fullness of time is reached (a Jubilee) coming again as the only one able to redeem from the rightful owner (God) the whole of creation, granted under the Law as a Kinsman of Adam (a man) see the Book of Ruth, Jesus is our Boaz, the Church is Ruth and Noami is Israel,

Jesus is taking authority using the very Laws and Ordinances which were implemented upon the physical Earth which allowed him to come in a Holy manner (in the flesh) then be rejected by Israel (flesh), that purchased the gentiles into the Kingdom of Heaven (Spirit) and then ultimately providing the same mechanism to redeem the physical creation during the restoration of all things, (the Jubilee)

Peter speaks of Jesus:

“Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.”  Acts 3:21 (a Jubilee)

“For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.”  Isaiah 63:4  (a Jubilee)

Satan has access to Heaven until he attempts to break that restoration, which is tied to the physical land as much as it is to the people (Israel) following the (second) restoration under the very same Law that took them away as with a flood in 70 AD,

Israel at the time of the end will make a covenant with death, Satan is a liar and usurper, the Great Tribulation begins on the Earth soon after,

“And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; . .”  Isaiah 28:18

At this time the war in Heaven begins and Satan is thrown out (forever) by the Archangel Michael,

“And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceive the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

“And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ:

“for the accuser of our brethren is cast down,

“which accused them before our God day and night.

“Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.”  Revelation 12:7-12

Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff

“And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself:  . . ”  Daniel 9:26

62 weeks, 434 years,

It is commonly conjectured by most when outlining Daniels 70 weeks,  that 69 of those weeks (or 483 years) were fulfilled at the cross, leaving only the the final 70th week (7 years or 2520 days) to complete the 490 years determined upon Israel (see Daniel Chapter 9) where the count begins with the fulfillment of two very specific conditions:

1. upon Israel (thy people) and 2. upon Jerusalem (thy Holy city)

For which that future week of years is waiting only for some unknowable moment before it can continue,  waiting as if the interval in between has been stopped or halted in some manner,  and so today we have 2000 years unaccounted,

From my earliest understandings, I’ve found the idea of the prophetic ‘clock’ being stopped to be wrong.  And after numbering the days (per Psalm 90) and considering the ‘times and seasons’ and counting the intervals between significant related events:  the Babylonian captivity,  the first Temple desolation in 587 BC, the first restoration of Israel, the decrees of Cyrus and Artaxerxes which started the 490 year count outlined in Daniel Chapter 9, to the coming of the Messiah officially in 32 AD, then to the Cross, the Resurrection, Pentecost in 32 AD, the second Temple desolation in August of 70 AD, the second restoration of Israel (thy people) in May 1948, and finally the second restoration of Jerusalem (thy Holy city) in June of 1967  – where both conditions to count are now met for the second time.

I (to my own satisfaction at least) perceive a structure to conjecture that it did not stop, that is to say, the prophetic age, the biblical accounting for time never ceased to move forward, instead it changed, as wheels within wheels, shifting from an accounting in the flesh for Israel, beginning immediately when the two conditions were applied  the first time (March 14th, 444 BC) and then continuing to the arrival of the Messiah (precisely as promised on April 6th, 32 AD) where Israel chose to reject their promised visitation, to the ‘times of the gentiles,’  coinciding with the Kingdom of God, the spirit,  where the Church beginning at Pentecost resides today (and forever) and where a thousand years is as one day, and where we (the Church) pray, ‘thy kingdom come’ to be done on the Earth (in us, in this Earth, our bodies) until his authority,  having been granted in the spirit under the provisions of the Law which Israel rejected, is acknowledged by Israel on the Earth (flesh) and finally completed fulfilling the Law and the Prophets after their (Israel’s) diaspora for the transgression,

” But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” 2 Peter 3:8

The consideration of Psalm 90, which Peter is also quoting above, is that we could ‘number our days’ and then what we may come to understand,  knowing that God promises to do nothing unless it is told to us in advance,  the mysteries Jesus himself revealed in the Kingdom parables and where Paul tells us that he was given the unique honor to reveal the most profound mystery of all,  the coming of the Church, being his body on the Earth, in his Spirit, while we being sons of Adam on the Earth, he made us as he is, not under the Law,  rather we are his virgin bride being grafted in by grace under the very provisions Israel rejected, betrothed to the coming King, and he is now our High Priest making intercession,

The Church has been granted authority above all ‘principalities and power’s’ on the Earth, but these same spirits also have their authority granted to them over the flesh, the Earth, willingly granted to them by its current legal owner (Adam and his descendents) until all of the provisions accounting for the Jubilee redemption and the time of the transgressors are fully met,  and then finally to be completed upon the only people (Israel) singled out by the faith of their ancestors to provide the means to accomplish in the flesh what was impossible for men.  Don’t be harsh too on Israel, as our (gentile) ancestors never had the necessary faith to be given the promise to even attempt the enacting of such conditions upon the Earth, that is, to provide the means (even through transgression) to allow God the opportunity within a fallen creation to ultimately redeem us all,

God will act directly on the Earth as outlined at the time of the end.  Coming with anger and wrath, why? because as we’re shown,  Satan violates the Law, causing those on the Earth to break the Everlasting Covenant,  which God has steadfastly required to be maintained allowing for his Holiness to redeem all of the physical creation.  The Covenant that is broken and his wrath being poured out is not upon believers, the Church is forever covered under the fulfillment of the Jubilee release of the Gospel, the new Covenant (testament) which Jesus made ‘with the many’ when he took that cup and drank and the coming of the Kingdom of God being preached only after the work of the old Covenant with John the Baptist.  He came not to do away with the Law, but to fulfill it,

“Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.”  Matthew 11:11

“For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.”  Matthew 26:28

“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 9:27

It is not Antichrist, it is the spirit of Antichrist which caused this event, Messiah was cutoff (in the midst of the week) in the middle of a week of days, on a Wednesday of a much larger timeline but also on a Wednesday of a weekday (April 9th, 32 AD) but not for himself, and for that reason, because Israel did not know the time of their visitation their house was left desolate just as Jesus foretold.  Jerusalem and the Temple of stone were destroyed in August of 70 AD and not one stone was left upon another, all were cast down to the ground.  The Temple was made flesh and ‘the sacrifice and the oblation’, ‘the First and the Last’, ‘the Alpha and the Omega’ were fully come with the sacrifice on the Cross.  What remains now is for the transgressors to come to their full, that is for Israel to be restored, then Satan, for this reason knowing he has only a short time,  will seek to change the ‘Times and Seasons’ to prevent the fulfilling of Gods Ordinances upon the Earth,

Is it the Flesh or the Spirit that matters here?  Josephus records that Titus Vespasian with the 5th, 10th, 12th and 15th Roman Legions destroyed the city and the Sanctuary on August 10th, 11th and 12th of 70 AD, so prophecy scholars presume much from this physical act,  but who does Jesus tell us is actually responsible for this desolation:

“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.”  Luke 19:44

“And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him. But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.  For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?”  Luke 23:27-30

At the time of the end, when the transgressors are come to the full, (that is, Israel, the only ones operating under the promise who could have transgressed, and who were prophesied to do so, warned of the penalty and restitution, when they reach the fullness of time, to accomplish as it is written ‘to scatter the power of the holy people’ (as recorded in Daniel Chapter 11) Satan will in some way encumber the flesh (Israel) and the physical Earth by dividing the restored Israel with an agreement, breaking the Everlasting Covenant (Isaiah calls it a covenant with Death) which he (Satan) intends to change the provisions under the Law that God has been faithfully maintaining,  and for which even provides that he continue to be acknowledged to stand in Heaven to accuse believers because they operate within his allowed dominion,

Jesus is now sitting at the right hand of the Father, on his Fathers throne, as a man,  the seed of a woman,  and it is this division of the restoration that comes fulfilling the penalty of the transgression, it is why the wrath of God is poured out on the Earth, its how and why the end comes when it comes.

Satan understands these provisions, he understands they are almost complete and the ‘times and seasons’ of God under a Holy Law fully enacted upon the Earth will mean his lawful end, this is why he breaks the Covenant and this is why he is thrown out of Heaven by the Archangel Michael.  The gentiles have their time,  and Israel has their time, and now they have a day to complete as the transgressors, and once they complete that accounting and are returned to their Land (as they have since 1967) what will follow is the veil is then lifted,  they will then recognize their Messiah,  they will perceive the Abomination of Desolation spoken of by Daniel, that is they will ‘understand’ and then the believing remnant that now perceives the truth, understand they have full legal authority on the Earth to call for the return of Messiah, and this is why Satan will embark on his most desperate attempt to destroy the power of the holy people (Israel) as prophesied for the time of the end, beginning what Jesus called ‘the Great Tribulation’ and for which the book of Revelation tells us is so grievous that it will only last 1260 days on the Earth and it will be in some manner ‘cut short’ or no flesh would remain alive,

“Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.”  Psalm 2:1-8

“The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.”  Psalm 110:1

“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.”  Zechariah 12:10

“Look, he is coming with the clouds,” and “every eye will see him, even those who pierced him”; and all peoples on earth “will mourn because of him.” So shall it be! Amen.”  Revelation 1:7

The Messiah will sit on his own throne, the throne of David, as a man forever, where it is with the receiving of this authority on the Earth being shown to us in the book of Revelation beginning at Chapter 4 and continuing until the the physical return (bodily) to the Earth in Chapter 19.  Jesus is now coming in his own power and authority,  as lightning shining from the east to west, with the clouds of Heaven (believers) and every eye will see him and every knee will bow.  Satan’s authority is being thrown down by the sword of his mouth,(by the word itself) by the Law, as truth and Holiness that cannot be denied, with everlasting righteousness being established on the Earth,

“For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.”  Matthew 23:39

And if you know this, then the time accounted for under the Law with the conditions being met whereby the court sits in Heaven will begin to become visible, we need those two conditions to be met, and then we need a Jubilee distance, under the Law, requiring 49 years,  and then to be acknowledged in Heaven as ‘the acceptable year of the Lord’

If it is as conjectured here,  62 instead of 69 weeks having passed, with seven years only remaining, and that Israel instead has seven weeks (49 years – a Jubilee distance) and then one week (7 years) or 56 years total from the Cross remaining, meaning that we don’t have a short time frame (2520 days) to come upon believers suddenly, instead we have an entire  generation to see these prophesied events coming to their full, occurring in the lifespan of those conscious of the division between flesh and spirit and with understanding of where the Laws and Ordinances apply,  not to the Church, but to the Earth, the flesh, to Israel, who rejected the fulfillment of them and went into the long years of penalty until the transgression was accounted for under the same provisions which brought them the flood.   They erred in not knowing the timing, and as we’re told we would see that day approaching, just as Israel should have seen that day and even later the accounting to what followed in 70 AD when the end did come ‘like a flood’ upon the transgressors, and then at the time of the end,  a final week will come, for the world instead of for Israel alone, to be poured out in wrath.  The Great Tribulation, culminating with the Bowl judgements and his return as King of Kings and Lord of Lords,

The remnant will understand with the work on the earth of the 144,000 sealed out of every tribe,  the Church is now away with the harvest (Barley harvest – first fruits, Jesus being the first-fruits of them that slept) then the wheat harvest where the chaff is separated and lastly the grape harvest at the very end, where the returning Messiah, with the Jubilee, the year of his redeemed has now come, where he will tread the wine press of the wrath of God alone,

“Why is Your apparel red,
And Your garments like one who treads in the winepress?

“I have trodden the winepress alone,
And from the peoples no one was with Me.
For I have trodden them in My anger,
And trampled them in My fury;
Their blood is sprinkled upon My garments,
And I have stained all My robes.
For the day of vengeance is in My heart,
And the year of My redeemed has come. ”   Isaiah 63:2-4

in Revelation when the Angels hold the wind from the four corners, its as the winnowing of the wheat harvest, they’re holding until the 144,000 are sealed and ready, it brings to consideration the same way in which wheat was placed on a sheet and tossed into the wind to separate it from the chaff,

Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD’S anger come upon you.”  Zephaniah 2:2

We meet the Lord in the air,  I conjecture this is simply because he has no authority on the Earth (just yet) which tells us something about the timing of this event, it occurs before, or coincides with the opening of the seals, where he has just been acknowledged by the Court (the 24 elders) sitting before the throne, establishing his legal authority over all of creation,  having met the strict conditions for the kinsman redeemer provisions under the Law enacted upon the Earth,

“Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD’S anger.”  Zephaniah 2:3

The appearance becomes,  the accounting for time went from the flesh, accounting for Israel, to the spirit, being the Kingdom of Heaven,  where it flows in Gods dispensation of ages very differently than it does for those ‘dwelling’ on the Earth, as those without understanding are referenced in the book of Revelation, Earth dwellers.

“The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth. The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath. He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries. He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.”   Psalm 110:2-7

in those days, and in that time

Dividing the land of Israel for peace and security is whats coming,

“And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.” Isaiah 34:17

Because Haman, advisor to the King of Persia cast lots to determine the very day to destroy Gods people.  It was through Mordecai and Esther as recounted in the Book of Esther, God turned it around and Haman was destroyed instead.  Satan meant it for evil and God meant it for good.  Purim or ‘lots’ is celebrated as the Feast of Lots.

Purim is at the exact mid-point of the 7000 day pattern that follows the 2000 years (720,000 days) from the resurrection, with another 3500 days to the Feast of Trumpets.

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–|–3600–|-–40-–|–2520–|-–40–| September 26, 2022
July 28th, 2003 |——-3500———|——–3500——-| Rosh Hashanah
July 28th, 2003 |——-3500———|  February 25, 2013 Purim

In some manner, events are going to be orchestrated or lend themselves to the advantage of those who will demand the parting of the land for peace,

When this division does occur it will be the most prophetically significant moment since June 7th, 1967 when Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria were restored just as God promised.

Dividing the land, and undoing his work for a false peace will bring the judgment upon the world,  this will bring what Jesus in Mathew Chapter 24 referred to as the ‘great tribulation.’  The world system is attempting to undo Gods work of redemption for the land, the Earth and every living thing in it.

“For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.” Joel  3:1-2

We’re told with very straightforward language in Joel Chapter 3 that it will come  following the restoration of Jerusalem and Judah.  Instead of waiting for the Prince of Peace, and trusting in their promised Messiah,  instead of believing in God to save them, Israel will make an agreement with this world, giving up what God has promised and restored to them.

Israel will make a ‘covenant with death’ which God is going to annul.  The outcome is never uncertain, just the expense (recompense) the world will be required to pay as God resolves all debts under the Mosaic Law, and returns physically to this Earth as the avenger of blood, coming with authority, coming with the Jubilee and with vengeance.

“And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; “ Isaiah 28:18

“O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.” Psalm 94:1

“For it is the day of the LORD’S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.” Isaiah 34:8

Gods intervention is significant and not only just about protecting Israel and keeping his promises to restore his heritage, its about the whole of the framework as its written in the law of Moses, foretold in the prophets and the Psalms, the redemption framework is being overturned by principalities and powers in high places,  spiritual darkness that willfully and knowingly oppose him.

“For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.”  Isaiah 63:4

Gods physical redemption work is being undone in the flesh.   It will happen, but will not be permitted to continue unanswered.  This is the ultimate affront in the spiritual war in heaven.  This is (I conjecture) the reason why Satan is thrown out of heaven (his place is not found there anymore and he’s cast down to the Earth knowing he has but a short time)

“Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise? He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?”– Psalm 94:8-9

This world system will seek to ‘change the set times and laws.’  The  laws of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the ones which he provided in the Torah to create a holy framework for which he then used to insert himself in the flesh, into creation, to make an end of sin.  He has faithfully rewarded and punished,  and to whom much is given:

” . .  it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.  When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, . “ Joshua 23:15-16

And at the time of the end, “I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.” John 5:43

“And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.” Daniel 8:23

“And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.”  Daniel 7:25

The court will sit we’re told in Daniel Chapter 7.  We see this court in more detail in Revelation Chapter 4 and 5 with the redemption process being followed, its the Jubilee and only Jesus is worthy under the strict requirements precisely met under the Law of Moses to be our kinsman redeemer, and to take the scroll from the right hand of the father.  Its the deed to the Earth.

Jesus confounded the pharisees with this verse:

“The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.”  Psalm 110:1

Its difficult to imagine a reason for additional delay or why more time would be necessary?  But as God has already done, he can take a natural pause in the scripture and make it last for two thousand years as he did with Isaiah Chapter 61 when he proclaimed ‘the acceptable year of the lord’ and closed the book before reading the next verse ‘and the vengeance of our god.’  Which is still future with another Jubilee.

He’s long suffering that none should perish and a thousand years is as a day, but his spirit will not always strive with flesh,

Satan stands before God and accuses the brethren and will do so until his authority is no longer found there.

I believe this division event will follow or coincide in some manner with the Jubilee restoration of all things.  The Jubilee will be a redemption for the land and for Israel as a people, for the Earth and every living thing in it.  We ‘re told the Earth itself is groaning and waiting to be delivered and Jesus will be received in Heaven until that day, until the ‘restitution of all things as Peter wrote in Acts 3:21

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, its the peace of the world,

“For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.” Isaiah 34:2

clay jars in anathoth

For Judah,  judgement came with the Babylonian captivity beginning on July 23, 606 BC.   Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria have been restored since June of 1967 using the Law of Moses and fulfilling so many end time prophecies it would be difficult to assemble them all,

“When the lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.” Psalm 102:16

After the restoration process is complete, (or near complete) the nations of the world will vote (cast lots – Purim) to part the land, divide Jerusalem.   Spiritual powers and principalities are trying to undo the restoration work God has provided Israel.   God is keeping his promise “his hand is outstretched still.”  Jeremiah 32:17  I conjecture for the restoration to be complete, it requires at least 49 years to come to a future Jubilee,  to a future day of Atonement per the requirements set out in Leviticus Ch 25.

He is returning Israel to the land using the requirements of the covenant he made with Abraham and using the Holy Laws and Ordinances he provided to Israel at Mt Horeb,

“And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.  Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.  And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession,. . “ Leviticus 25:8-9

And further verse 23 states, “The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.”

See Joel 3:1 to the end of the chapter (emphasis added):

“For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

This is, I believe exactly where we are today prophetically and this dividing (parting of the Land) could occur with very little notice.   We know from Daniel 8:19 that at the close of the age, “at the latter end of the indignation,”  Satan’s seeks to break the Laws and ordinances,  he’ll cause the nations to break the everlasting covenant.  This is the covenant God made with the land and with the nation of Israel and with his promise of restoration at the end.  This is why it appears the end comes when they (the nations) do this,  its the vengeance of the temple,

“The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.” Jeremiah 50:28

After Israel is restored back into the land the second time,

“Then it will happen on that day that the Lord will again recover the second time with His hand The remnant . .” Isaiah 11:11

“Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries among which you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.”‘  Ezekiel 11:17

“Therefore behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when it will no longer be said, ‘As the LORD lives, who brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’ but, ‘As the LORD lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of the north and from all the countries where He had banished them.’ For I will restore them to their own land which I gave to their fathers.”  Jeremiah 16:14-15

On November 29th, 1947, the very day the UN voted to partition Palestine, the Rabbi that had received the first of the Dead Sea scrolls was listening on the radio to the reports of the UN vote as he drove up to Jerusalem that evening with the scrolls.  God was raising up the word of his prophets at the exact moment he was restoring Israel to the land just as he promised.  We are without excuse.

“For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse ”  Romans 1:20

David Ben-Gurion used the book of Ezekiel to name the new state of Israel.  They had considered naming it Zion.  When US President Harry Truman had the State Department draft the letter of recognition, they had never done it before,  also it did not have the name of Israel on the document.  President Truman made the remark that he was like Cyrus the Great.  But Cyrus was now also the King of Babylon when he performed a similar role.   Babylon received power for 70 years (25,200 days)  and was “weighed in the balances and found wanting” with the handwriting on the wall as we’re told in Daniel Ch 5.

While its outside the interest of this blog, it can be noted that 70 years after the United States used the first Atomic bomb in war,  August 6th, 1945, (effectively receiving a great sword) and rose to be the ultimate national power on the Earth on that very day, it is exactly 25,200 days to the 9th of AV in 2014.  The 9th of Av,or tish b’av has always been a day of darkness and mourning.

The southern kingdom had the Holy Temple and believed that God would never allow his house to be destroyed.   He sent Jeremiah to warn them they we’re wrong.  He told them to go to Babylon, build vineyards and settle in, they we’re to be there for 70 years and then would return to their Temple.  They were in Babylon 70 years to the day.  Daniel was reading from Jeremiah and knew the 70 years was indicated when he was shown by Gabriel the complete end of the ‘desolations’ and how and when to expect the Messiah and from when the final restoration would come and also how to count his coming to the very day, see Daniel Ch 9

The events surrounding ‘the latter end of the indignation’ Daniel 8:19,  at the time of the end leads to all out war in heaven.

If your not sure there is a spirit world with angelic and demonic activity and spiritual principalities and powers in contention all around us, this commentary will be difficult to follow.  This spiritual war is being directly fought between Michael and his angels and against Satan and those that were deceived by him.  When they ‘part the land’ when they divide Israel for gain, for “peace and safety’ , “when they shall say, peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them all” 1 Thessalonians 5:3.  The war clearly enters into a whole new arena, Satan is thrown out of Heaven, “but the court will sit” we’re told in Daniel Chapter 7 and God is now directly involved.  Which is interesting if you understand the ‘avenger of blood’ provisions of the kinsmen redeemer, then you know what is included in the scroll in Gods right hand when he hands it to Jesus in Revelation Chapter 5.  Its the right of redemption under the Law of Moses.  No one in heaven, or on the Earth or under the Earth is eligible to open it, or even look upon it.

And like the Dead Sea Scrolls which were found in caves in clay jars in 1947, I wonder if it could in some manner be the same deed Jeremiah placed in the clay jars in Anathoth and sealed up so they would last for many days? Jeremiah 32:7-14

“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.” Luke 21:36