PART 2 There will be a temple rebuilt and there will be the abomination
of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet, showing that he was not
talking about the era he lived in when he wrote;
Daniel 9:27 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 12:11 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.
Antiochus Epiphanes, a type of the Antichrist after Daniel’s day,
sacrificed a pig on the altar and offered up prayers to Zeus.
The defiling of the new temple will take place in the middle of a
week of years and last for 3 ½ years. An organization called The Temple Mount
Faithful is focused on rebuilding the temple.
Then, Christ talks about the Jews final persecution, the Time of
Jacob’s Trouble mentioned in Jeremiah 30 and in Revelation, chapter 12.
Jeremiah 30:6 Ask ye now,
and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man
with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned
into paleness? 7 Alas! for that day is
great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he
shall be saved out of it.
Revelation 12:14 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 (3 and a half years), from the face of the serpent. 15 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. 16 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. 17 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.
Don’t believe any man who says he is Christ even if they seem to
perform signs and wonders possibly deceiving the very elect, He tells these
believing Jews and then explains how He will appear as lightning flashing from
the east to the west. He then describes conditions that remind one of the Book
of the Revelation.
Revelation 6:12 And I
beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great
earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became
as blood; 13 And the stars of heaven
fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is
shaken of a mighty wind. 14 And the
heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and
island were moved out of their places. 15
And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the
chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid
themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on
us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the
wrath of the Lamb: 17 For the great day
of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
The people of the earth will mourn and wail when they see Him.
Revelation 1:7 Behold, he
cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced
him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
The Rapture or Translation of the Church could be described as
this passage ends although the use of And doesn’t always mean something
that directly follows another. And can just add additional information
without indicating a time or demanding that the event after and must be
the next event. This verse got me wondering about whether this placed the
translation or rapture of the Church at the end of the Tribulation as some
people say until, as I read other things in Genesis and outside of the Bible
how and can be used to insert information that was not spoken of
previously not necessarily meaning that it followed after the last events
described. So, I am not trying to identify the time of the Rapture, which is a
great topic for a Bible Study.
I’ll give you an example. “Joe was a very successful engineer even
up until his 70s. And he got his engineering degree from MIT.” This is more
used in conversation than in formal writing. Just a thought.
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