THE
LAST
WORLD
EMPIRE
Will
the beast power rule the world in the end as we have been shown in the
modern scenarios?
Is
this what the bible teaches? or is this one
of the false prophecies Jesus warns us will come, in the last days right
before the end ?
Notice this text;
Matthew 24
Matthew
24:3-4
And
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?
And
Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive
you……..
Matthew
24:11-15
And
many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
And
because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
But
he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world
for a witness
unto
all nations; and then shall the end come.
When ye therefore shall see the
abomination of desolation, spoken of by
Daniel
the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth,
let him understand:)
This
is Jesus’ warning about what is going to happen in the end of the
world, and if you go on in this chapter and the next, it seems he is
emphasizing the fact; that we had better know the truth, for there will
be many false prophets coming and will led away many.
But
to answer our question; concerning the Beast Power ruling over the whole
earth in the time of the end; we must take Jesus’ warning He gave us
at the end of the above text; “to read and understand what Daniel the
Prophet said concerning this abomination of desolation”; that would be
standing in the holy place in the end of the world.
What
does he mean ?
Well,
what ever it is, it has to do with the time of the end, and it is a
warning for those who read it, and that’s obviously those who are in
the end time situation like us.
So
lets go to Daniel for the answer to our
question and see if this popular doctrine is a true or a false prophecy.
This
is so important for us to do; to know the truth;
Notice
what Paul writes concerning “the truth” and “the beast” and
“the false prophecies” and “us”;
II
Thessalonians 2:3-12
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.
I
want to know the truth, don’t you, especially when it comes to all
these questions, so I will not be “so deceived” that God gives me
over to “the delusions” I know I will encounter, and I will believe
them rather than believe the truth made plain in the bible and the bible
only.
Lets
turn to the book of Daniel as Jesus asked us to;
Daniel
2
In
Chapter 2; Daniel interprets a dream for the king of Babylon; “the
first kingdom upon the earth to rule the whole world under one king”,
and by the way, just like the modern doctrines we are talking about, say
the beast will do in the last days; thus our study.
We
all know this story of Daniel I hope, if not you can quickly read it up
to verse 31, bringing us to where Daniel tells the king his dream and
the interpretation God gives him; so lets read the dream and the
interpretation here;
Daniel
2:31
Thou, O king, sawest,
and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was
excellent,
stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.
This
image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his
belly and his
thighs
of brass,
His
legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.
Thou
sawest till that a stone was cut out without
hands, which smote the image upon his
feet
that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
Then
was the iron, the clay, the brass, the
silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together,
and
became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors;
and the wind carried them
away,
that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image
became a
great
mountain, and filled the whole earth.
This
is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the
king.
Now
God of course gave Daniel the interpretation of this dream and what the
image meant;
Daniel 2:37-43
Thou,
O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a
kingdom,
power,
and strength, and glory.
And
wheresoever the children of men dwell, the
beasts of the field and the fowls
of
the heaven hath he given into thine hand,
and hath made thee ruler over them all.
Thou
art this head of gold.
And
after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and
another third kingdom
of
brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.
And
the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh
in pieces
and
subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh
all these, shall it break in pieces
and
bruise.
And
whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part
of potters' clay, and part of iron,
the
kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of
the iron,
forasmuch
as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry
clay.
And
as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the
kingdom shall
be
partly strong, and partly broken.
And
whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry
clay, they shall mingle themselves
with
the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even
as iron is not mixed with clay.
HERE
IS A PICTURE REPRESENTING THE IMAGE THE KING SAW IN HIS DREAM;
Notice
the image and the descriptions; and then look at the history books; only
four kingdoms have been upon this earth with a “single king-ruler”
at the head who ruled the whole earth under their command; and as God
showed Daniel (and us here); only these four would ever come to control
the whole world, because the ones that follow the last empire (Rome)
will never be able to come together to make another world empire.
Oh, it will have the same characteristics as Rome, even take her
name, but it will never gain “world dominance” as the modern
religionists claim the beast is going to in the end;
God
is showing us here with his graphics; in the end, it will be (the stone
that turns into a great mountain) “his kingdom”
that will follow the ten toes, and “His kingdom” will
be the next to rule “for ever” (vs. 44-) as that’s as far as his
predications could go! Since
it started from the top down and ended with the toes where else can the
prediction go?
We
have answered our primary question; whether the Beast will rule the
whole world in the end or not, and obviously it will not!
But lets explore this prophecy
further, for it gives us clues about the end of the world and leads us
to identify the “Beast Power itself” who is shown in our next
text to come up there in the time “of the ten toes.”
Wouldn’t you like to know who the bible says the beast power
is?
Ok,
lets go….
First,
who were the Ten kingdoms that make up the ten toes
?
Can
we know ?
Sure
- history reveals the answer for us;
When
Rome
fell in 476 ad the ten tribes that brought
her down came into power as a result.
Seven
of which are still on the map today believe it or not;
Anglo-Saxons
–
England
Burundians
–
Switzerland
Alamanni
–
Germany
Suevi
–
Portugal
Franks
–
France
Lombards
–
Italy
Visigoths –
Spain
The
three which are gone are;
Vandals
Ostrogoths
Heruli
What
happened to the three?
When
does the beast arise?
The
answer to the question is in another vision God revealed to Daniel;
Daniel 7:2-11
Daniel spake
and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of
the heaven
strove
upon the great sea.
And
four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
The
first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings
thereof were
plucked,
and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a
man,
and
a man's heart was given to it.
And
behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised
up itself on one side,
and
it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they
said thus unto it,
Arise,
devour much flesh.
After
this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back
of it four
wings
of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.
After
this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and
terrible,
and
strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake
in pieces,
and
stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the
beasts that
were
before it; and it had ten horns.
I
considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another
little horn,
before
whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and,
behold,
in
this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great
things.
I
beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit,
whose garment
was
white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne
was like the fiery
flame,
and his wheels as burning fire.
A
fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands
ministered unto
him,
and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was
set, and the
books
were opened.
I
beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake:
I beheld even
till
the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning
flame.
Notice
he saw four beasts in this dream and they represent the same four
kingdoms; as he is told;
Daniel 7:16-17
I came near unto
one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he
told
me,
and made me know the interpretation of the things.
These
great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of
the earth………..
Daniel
7:23
Thus he said, The
fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth……
This
forth beast was Rome of course, but we will soon discover “the little
horn power” that he saw coming up “among the 10” and “plucked up
three by the roots”, is the famous “Beast Power” that comes on the
scene of time after Rome falls, and right there among the ten kingdoms,
and it destroys three of the original tribes that overthrew Rome just as
the dream described to Daniel way back there in 605 bc
and history recorded when they happened some 1000 years in the future.
The
Beast power rising as the little horn;
Daniel
7:19-26
Then
I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all
the others,
exceeding
dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which
devoured,
brake
in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;
And
of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up,
and before
whom
three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake
very great things,
whose
look was more stout than his fellows.
I
beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed
against them;
Until
the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the
most High;
and
the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
Thus
he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth
kingdom upon earth, which shall be
diverse
from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it
down,
and
break it in pieces.
And
the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and
another shall
rise
after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue
three kings.
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.
But
the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to
consume and to
destroy
it unto the end
The
power we read about here; that subdues three whole nations; is shown to
“be functioning” during the years between 476 ad (when
Rome
fell) to the end of time.
In
fact a time frame is given for his rule, did you see it?
A time frame of;
“a time, times, and the dividing of
time”.
How
long is this prophetic period ?
Remember now it’s a prophetic time frame.
If only we had Sir Isaac Newton, the numbers man, with us today
he could figure it out for us couldn’t he ?
Of
course he could, and he did !
Notice his words I copied from his book I have in my library;
Were
you able to read it?
Notice
the top of the above page (114); this period (time, times, dividing of
time) equals 1260 years of real time!
Did
you also read where
Newton
even identified the power who not only
reigned for this 1260 year period but was also responsible for plucking
up, or genocide the three nations God said it would.
How
simple it is to identify the beast power!
Martin Luther and all the forefathers knew this too, why didn’t
you?
Is
this true historically; that the church of Rome (the Papacy) ruled for
1260 years during some time after 476 ad
for the next 1260 years?
You
had better believe it, and a trip to the public library confirms it (the
electronic encyclopedias are to vague and conflicting to use, even
though you can find the truth from history there, its buried, and in the
end you discover is not a reliable reference source and a lot of the
researchers are bios).
Go
to the Library and check me out, like I checked it out.
In
the early part of the 6th century, as the Emperor of what was
left of Rome, Justinian, was trying to bring the nations still loyal to
the Roman ideal together to form another world power, (against Gods
prophecy of course which said; ‘no other nation would ever rule
again’) Justinian sought to align himself with the now powerful Papacy
who had gained power by her destruction of the heretics, or arian
nations she so called (including the three little horns she plucked up),
she was becoming so powerful that the Emperor gave the Pope religious
power over all areas of the hopeful empire in 508 ad.
Eventually, in just 62 years after Rome fell, in 538 ad, the
Papacy, not even by choice,
assumed full control over the rag tag empire of Rome (not a world power
incidentally) thus the church is called the “Roman” Catholic Church.
From
538 ad - 1260 years until 1798 ad (exactly) the church of Rome
controlled the political and religious sector of society under her
power, and if you read the last scripture given above you can see how
God perfectly revealed her actions during that time, when she persecuted
the saints by the multi-millions, she changed Gods law and time in one
act; by changing the worship day from the Sabbath of time and creation,
to Sunday, and completely genocide three whole nations out of existence
just as God predicted.
And,
if
this prophecy came true so precisely, so will the predictions John wrote
about her as the beast of Revelation 12,13&14 (notice the time
frames given there) when she, after a recovering from a seemingly deadly
wound (in 1798ad), regains her power over our mixed up world, and when
she does; it’s predicted she “will” once again return to her
original posture, and the persecution will return, and the whole world
will wonder after her as they already do, via her doctrines and her day
of worship.
This
doesn’t seem possible, but as we have briefly seen; God predicts
nations arising and falling, and if there is anything we can count on as
true, it must be the word of God, if not what?
ATTACHMENTS:
Revelation 12
Revelation
12:13-17
And
when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the
woman
which brought forth the man child.
And
to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly
into
the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time,
and
times,
and half a time,
from the face of the serpent.
And
the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman,
that
he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
And
the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and
swallowed
up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
And
the dragon
was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the
remnant
of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the
testimony
of Jesus Christ.
Revelation 13
Revelation
13:1-18
And
I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea,
having
seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon
his
heads the name of blasphemy.
And
the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the
feet
of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion:
and the dragon gave
him
his power, and his seat, and great authority.
And
I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;
and his deadly wound
was
healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
And
they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they
worshipped
the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who
is able to make
war
with him?
And
there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies;
and
power was given unto him to continue forty and two months
And
he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name,
and
his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
And
it was given unto him to make war with the saints,
and to overcome them:
and
power was given him over all kindred’s, and tongues, and nations.
And
all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him,
whose names are not written
in
the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
If
any man have an ear, let him hear.
He
that leadeth into captivity shall go into
captivity: he that killeth with the
sword
must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the
saints.
And
I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth;
and he had two horns
like
a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
And
he exerciseth all the power of the first
beast before him, and causeth the
earth
and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly
wound
was
healed.
And
he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh
fire come down from heaven on
the
earth in the sight of men,
And
deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by
the means of those miracles
which
he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell
on
the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the
wound
by
a sword, and did live.
And
he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of
the
beast
should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image
of
the beast should be killed.
And
he causeth all, both small and great, rich
and poor, free and bond, to receive
a
mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
And
that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of
the
beast,
or the number of his name.
Here
is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the
beast:
for
it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and
six.
Revelation 14
Revelation
14:1-20
And
I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the
mount
Sion
,
and with him an hundred
forty
and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.
And
I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the
voice of
a
great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their
harps:
And
they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four
beasts,
and
the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty
and four
thousand,
which were redeemed from the earth.
These
are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These
are
they
which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth.
These were redeemed from
among
men, being the firstfruits unto God and to
the Lamb.
And
in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the
throne of God.
And
I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting
gospel
to
preach
unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and
tongue,
and people,
Saying
with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his
judgment
is
come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the
fountains of waters.
And
there followed another angel, saying,
Babylon
is fallen, is fallen, that great city,
because
she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
And
the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If
any man worship the beast
and
his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
The
same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out
without
mixture
into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and
brimstone
in
the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
And
the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for
ever and ever: and they have no
rest
day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth
the
mark
of his name.
Here
is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments
of God,
and
the faith of Jesus.
And
I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead
which
die
in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the
Spirit, that they may rest from their
labours;
and their works do follow them.
And
I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto
the Son of man,
having
on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
And
another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him
that sat on the cloud,
Thrust
in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the
harvest of the earth is ripe.
And
he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the
earth was reaped.
And
another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having
a sharp sickle.
And
another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and
cried with a
loud
cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp
sickle, and gather the
clusters
of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
And
the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of
the earth, and
cast
it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
And
the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the
winepress,
even
unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred
furlongs.
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BEASTS
JUSTIFICATION FOR KILLING HERETICS
CAN
NOT BE RESPONDED TO BY 98% OF PROTESTANTS -VALUABLE INPUT-
Billy
Grahams statement;
See time.com
The
last book of Daniel
Daniel
had another dream that seals the dependability of prophecy and
establishes the bible historically in time.
Archeology has proven time and time again the bible is an
accurate account of history, and this dream Daniel was given takes us
from a well established period of time 600 years+ before Christ, and
brings us up to 1800 years+ after his death.
Had the people of Jesus’ day just studied the scriptures
through this “one prophecy alone” they could have known the very
year of the Messiah and been prepared to usurer Him in.
Unfortunately God saw into the future and saw their rejection and
crucifixion of His Son and had Daniel write it down for their warning
and for our faith in prophecy.
Lets
take a quick look at this prophecy, and when we do, we will find how it
connects exactly with what we have studied thus far.
Daniel
Daniel 8:9-14
And
out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding
great,
toward
the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land.
And
it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the
host
and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them.
Yea,
he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the
daily
sacrifice
was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.
And
an host was given him against the daily
sacrifice by reason of transgression,
and
it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practiced, and prospered.
Then
I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain
saint
which
spoke, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and
the
transgression
of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden
under
foot?
And
he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three
hundred days; then shall the
sanctuary
be cleansed.
A
partial interpretation follows
Daniel 8:16-27
And
I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai,
which called, and said, Gabriel,
make
this man to understand the vision.
So
he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell
upon my face:
but
he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end
shall be the vision.
Now
as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the
ground:
but
he touched me, and set me upright.
And
he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of
the indignation:
for
at the time appointed the end shall be.
The
ram which thou sawest having two horns are
the kings of Media and
Persia
.
And
the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and
the great horn that is between his
eyes
is the first king.
Now
that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall
stand up
out
of the nation, but not in his power.
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.
And
his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall
destroy wonderfully,
and
shall prosper, and practice, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy
people.
And
through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and
he shall
magnify
himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also
stand up
against
the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
And
the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is
true: wherefore
shut thou
up
the vision; for it shall be for many days.
And
I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and
did the king's
business;
and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it.
Now
most of chapter 9 tells of how Daniel is praying and pleading for the
answer to the vision, as we saw, he had only been shown in part and was
told to shut up the vision for it was to far off in the future for him
to worry about knowing what it meant.
But Daniel was persistent, and if you take a few moments to read
his prayer you will see why his heart was so heavy; he thought the
vision had something to do with the rebuilding of the sanctuary that had
been destroyed by king Nebuchadnezzar, but he was soon to see, yes, it
was connected with that event, but the time frame he herd mentioned (the
2300 days) did truly stretch in the very distant future even into ours!
Lets
go on;
Daniel
9:1-3
In the first year
of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed
of the Medes, which was
made
king over the realm of the Chaldeans;
In the first year
of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years,
whereof
the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would
accomplish
seventy
years in the desolations of
Jerusalem
.
And I set my face
unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting,
and
sackcloth, and ashes:
Now
before we move on to the interpretation of this prophecy given to Daniel
lets look at a few important aspects of Daniels prayer;
Notice
in the above text; how Daniel was studying prophecy from the scriptures
he had (the book of Jeremiah), and from this particular prophecy, Daniel
was able to determine that the delivery of his people from the present
desolation against Jerusalem, was to come to and end in his very near
future, and so he pleads with fasting and sackcloth thinking that the
2300 days related to this prophecy.
It does, but only as a starting point and thats
all, however he does get his answer to his prayer about the restoration
of the sanctuary of
Jerusalem
.
The
closing of Jeremiahs prophecy begins the 2300 year prophecy.
So lets go to the heavenly interpretation of this prophecy; and
one more thing; if you read
the prayer of Daniel here between verses 3 and 21 it only takes a couple
of minuets, but notice verses 21-23 how the angel Gabriel flew from
heaven to earth in that couple minuets!
Take about travel at the speed of light - what about thought!!
Sorry I just had to point that out.
Ok,
here we go;
Daniel
9:21-27
Yea, whiles I was
speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the
vision
at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time
of the
evening
oblation.
And he informed
me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth
to
give thee skill and understanding.
At the beginning
of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come
to
shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved:
therefore understand the matter, and
consider
the vision.
Seventy
weeks are determined (cut
off from) upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the
transgression,
and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity,
and
to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and
prophecy,
and
to anoint the most Holy.
Know therefore
and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment
to
restore and to build
Jerusalem
unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven
weeks,
and
threescore and two weeks: the
street shall be built again, and the wall, even in
troublous
times.
And after threescore
and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself:
and
the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the
sanctuary;
and
the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war
desolations
are
determined.
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.
Look
at that last statement here are the very words Jesus used in Mathew
24:14 when he said what was it ? “When ye
therefore see the abomination of desolation” as spoken by the prophet
Daniel, know and understand what I am saying; well this is it we are to
know so we are on track now and soon we will see how this prophecy ties
to the other ones we were studying.
So
what have we read so far ?
Look
at this chart it gives you a graphic of how all these dates given above
fit;
lets
set these dates into historical settings now;
457
is the date given for the “going forth of the commandment to restore
and re-build
Jerusalem
”
look
at Ezra 7 where that decree is given and look at the center column of my
bible;
457
is one of the most sound archeological dates
we know.
483(days
or years)-457-1/2bc (going forth was in the fall of the year)=26-1/2ad
add 1 year for no year zero (going from bc
to ad time)=27-1/2ad
the
time when Jesus was baptized in this year and then he would to preach
(confirm the covenant) for 3-1/2 years bringing us to 31 ad.
Was
Jesus crucified in that year ?
A
trip to the library is in order again to find the “book of calendars”(in
all libraries);
This
book equates the Gregorian calendar with the Hebrew:
This
page tells us that the Passover falls (and can be calculated for any
year past or future-like easter) 163 days
“preceding” the Jewish new year;
The
next page tells us that in the year 32ad the Jewish new
year fell on Monday Sept 22
If
we graph this (as I have) we find that by going back 163 days from that
date we find that the Passover for the year 31ad fell on “Saturday”
agreeing with the biblical record.
If we use 31ad and go back 163 days Passover for that year falls
on Monday. Etc.
go
prove it your self and you will find its true, and it proves or supports
the prophecy as exact, and the Messiah came right on time according to
the prophecy making the rest of the prophecy accurate.
(for
more details see “Yom Kippur” on my site)
If
the prophecy came true exactly in Jesus’ time with his baptism,
crucifixion, and the rejection of the Jews (stoning of Stephen the first
myrter after Jesus) giving over the ministry
to the gentiles, then the date of 1844 must be just as true and accurate
(see Yom Kippur) and the event that happened then (in 1844ad) was to be
the beginning of the “anti-typical day of judgment” taking place in
heaven right now (that’s another subject I take up in my “Yom
Kippur” study).
And
this is why, at the end of Daniels visions and writings, he was told
about this period of time where he is pictured as “standing in his
lot” with the others, inc. you and me, as every case will be herd
before Jesus comes, and that’s how he can bring his reward with him
(re Rev. 22:12).
Daniel
12:1-13
And at that time
shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth
for the children
of
thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was
since there was a
nation
even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered,
every one
that
shall be found written in the book.
And many of them
that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting
life,
and
some to shame and everlasting contempt.
And they that be
wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn
many
to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
But thou, O
Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the
end:
many
shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
Then I Daniel
looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the
bank
of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river.
And one said to
the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river,
How long shall it
be to the end of these wonders?
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.
And I heard, but
I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these
things?
And he said, Go
thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of
the end.
Many shall be
purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly:
and
none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
And from the time
that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination
that
maketh desolate set up,
there shall be
a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
Blessed is he
that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and
thirty days.
But go thou thy
way till the end be: for thou shalt
rest, and stand
in thy lot at the end of the days.
From
the time the abomination of desolation
is set up 508ad+1290 (days or prophetic years)=1798ad but in another 45
years (1335-1290) all this knowledge I have presented here was to be
understood in the year of 1844ad.
You
see the book of Daniel was closed (above text last part) and not to be
opened until the end of the 2300 days in 1844ad.
Once it was opened “in full understanding” it would no longer
take a Newton or an Einstein to understand it, for all will be
“blessed” by the knowledge now available to “even
us”…….”Blessed is he that waiteth,
and commeth to the 1335th day
prophecy spells out for their eyes will be opened…..
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