JESUS EXPLAINS WHAT HAPPENS AT SECOND COMING
Matthew 13:24-30, "Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn."
Jesus then explains this...
Matthew 13:36-39, "Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels."
Have you ever seen a actual TARE? It's not just any weed. This is what I used to think for years. A tare looks just like wheat! In fact it looks exactly like wheat. Until harvest that is. The wheat is plump and filled with its fruit, but the tares are scrawny and thin. In fact, inside the tares is a small back seed that if eaten causes sleepiness no less! This parable fits perfectly with todays world. SO MANY people claim Christ as Lord. Literally billions of people on this planet "look" like Christians. Soon however, the harvest will be ready and those of us called to tarry through the time of Jacob's trouble will experience first hand how scrawny and thin those "Christians" really are. They will be the ones that join with Rome to have us jailed, persecuted and even killed.
There is one verse in the Word of god that directly addresses the so called "Secret Rapture" in such a way that it appears to say the Lord knew this lie would be embraced in these last days.
Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. Psalm 50:3
The "Secret Rapture" theory preaches it's not only secret, it's done in SILENCE where "suddenly" millions are missing! This verse directly exposes those preachers of error with childlike ease!
ONE LAST NOTE... WHAT IF "THIS" WAS PLANNED... by you know who!
"DON'T WORRY...WHEN THE CHRISTIANS LEAVE, IT WILL BE THE SIGN YOU HAVE BEEN LOOKING
FOR... YOU'LL HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO REPENT, AND GET YOUR LIFE RIGHT THEN"
Signed... Satan
This seven year rapture theory may be the devil's last trick played on mankind! NOW DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHY IT'S CALLED "SAVED?"
By the way... this next verse BLUNTLY declares those that state we leave BEFORE Satan does his evil acts are actually what Scripture define as false teachers and false prophets. The 7 year trib and secret rapture theory declares ALL that Satan does will be done AFTER the Christians are raptured up and away from all the trouble. But the following passage states the exact opposite!
2 Thessalonians 2:9, "Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,"
Jesus is coming AFTER Satan does his lying wonders. This verse proves that! And by the way, Jesus actually PRAYED that we DON'T leave the world in John 17:15. He said, "I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil."
So, how was this lie fabricated? How was it so easily embraced by the church? It has to do with a prophecy of Daniel chapter 9...
A PROPHETIC TWIST ON DANIEL 9
This seven year tribulation theory actually originates from a mis-understanding, or deliberate re-writing of the prophecy in the ninth chapter of the book of Daniel. Many take this prophecy out of context to explain a seven year,(Pre-Trib) or three and a half year, (Mid-Trib) time of great tribulation for the Christian believer. However, you will find by studying this prophecy that it does not speak of a time of tribulation at all. In fact, it speaks of a time that all believers both Old and New Testament alike hold very dear to their hearts. It is the prophecy that describes the coming of Jesus as the Messiah in 27AD, as well as what transpired from the very year He stepped into the river Jordan to be baptized by John, to the exact year He died on the cross 3½ years after His baptism. We then see the prophecy coming to the time when the Gospel was finally proclaimed to the Gentile 3½ years after the cross. This of course ends up equaling a grand total of seven years after Jesus steps forward as Messiah in 27A.D. Which by the way is prophecied in Daniel chapter nine, and the EXACT YEAR of Christ's arrival as Messiah is also mentioned in that same chapter. It's amazing to say the least!
Over 500 years before Jesus was born there was a prophet named Daniel. This Daniel was given an amazing prophecy which predicted the exact time the Messiah would come. This awesome prophecy with all its well researched and documented prophetic dates, proves beyound a doubt that Jesus is indeed the Messiah that was to come, and He came in the very year Daniel's vision revealed..
Daniel 9:24-27 24 Seventy weeks are determined 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. 25 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. 26 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. 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.
First of all, according to the prophecy, how much time was allotted Jerusalem by God Almighty to make up for the sins committed against Him? It states in verse 24 that "Seventy weeks are determined 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" Seventy weeks is the amount of time the Lord has given. But how long is Seventy weeks in prophetic time? Looking to Ezekiel 4:6 we see the method of calculating time in prophecy. Ezekiel 4:6 says, "I have appointed thee each day for a year." This is an amazing key in prophetic dating that most preachers today are totally unaware of. Does the Bible really preach this? And does historic fact confirm it? Truth is, there are so many times this calculation is use din the Word when speaking in prophetic tones, that I woul dbe hard pressed to list them all. Here are but a few...
Days prophecied
Source Passage
Historic fact
1260 days
Dan 7:25, Dan 12:7, Rev 11:3, Rev 12:6 , Rev 12:14
538AD to 1798AD
538AD Catholicism began as a church & state. 1798AD Napoleon mortally wounded the church and stopped the "church & state" structure. (Prophecy states this would be a 'temporary' wound)
42 Months
2300 days
Start = Ezra 7:1-27
End = Daniel 8:14
Start = 457BC Israel did rebuild. End = 1844AD Sanctuary cleansed, and "Great Disapointment" occurs. (Rev 10:9,10)
70 weeks (490 days)
Start = Ezra 7:1-27
End = Acts 7:59
Start = 457BC Israel did rebuild.
End = 34AD Stephan stoned
69 weeks (483 days)
Start = Ezra 7:1-27
End = Dan 9:25
Start = 457BC Israel did rebuild.
End = 27AD Jesus is baptized.
1 week (7 days)
Start = Dan 9:25
End = Acts 7:59
Start = 27AD Jesus is baptized.
End = 34AD Stephan is stoned.
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Of course there are quite a few more areas in the Word that use the day for a year method, but I believe these few examples should suffice for now. My question has to be then is this. Why is it so many refuse to believe the truth regarding the biblical jurisprudence of a day for a year in prophecy when there is so much evidence to support it? It's absolutely impossible for this to be a mere coincidence. For example, Daniel and Revelation both speak of 1260 days that were to actually equal 1260 years. Then we see that historic record proves the Roman Catholic church started as a church and state in 538AD and exactly 1260 years later Napoleon ended their evil reign for a time. You can verify the historic facts by clicking here. Or even take into consideration how the Lord told Moses that the forty days he searched the land would become forty years of wandering desert for the rebellious people of God. (See verification in Numbers 14:32-34)
So according to the Bible, a prophetic day actually represents a literal year in actual time. No keep in mind this calculation is ONLY good in prophetic situations. So that would mean each of the seventy weeks represents seven literal years because the Lord has given us "a day for a year" when calculating prophetic time. Multiplying seven years times seventy, we come up with a grand total of 490 years that the Lord has given the Jewish nation as a probationary period to get right with God. But when was this 70 week (490 years) period of time to start? Looking at verse 25 of Daniel chapter 9 we see that it will start "from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem" So as soon as it was commanded by one in authority, like a king, all that awaited the time to start would be the "going forth" to actually place the foot in Jerusalem.
Understand that at this time God's people were in captivity in Persia. However, the Lord God had touched the heart of the Persian King Artaxerxes, to make a decree which would have allowed all the Jews that desired, to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the city. This actual decree is historically recorded in the Bible in the book of Ezra chapter 7. Two other kings had also made decrees prior to this one, but they only allowed the rebuilding of the temple, so in fact they would not qualify as prophetic fulfillment in this case.
Ezra 7:7,12,13 says, " And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king. Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect peace, and at such a time. I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee. "
History records that this king began his rule in the year 464 B.C. Using simple mathematics, the actual "seventh year of Artaxerxes the king" would then be 457 B.C. This decree was fulfilled in the fall of this year after the arrival of Ezra in the city of Jerusalem. Once Ezra placed foot in what was called Jerusalem, or "went forth," as Scriptures denote, the city had become.
According to Daniel, how much time must pass from the decree of Artaxerxes till the Messiah actually appears? Verse 25 of Daniel chapter 9 tells us, "unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks"
Prophetic statement
# of weeks
Calculation
Total
End result
Seven weeks
7
7 x 7
49 days
49 years
...plus three *score
60
3 x 20 x 7
420 days
420 years
...and two weeks
2
2 x 7
14 days
14 years
GRAND TOTAL:
69
69 x 7
483 days
483 years
*NOTE: a "score" = "a group of 20..." -Dictionary.com
If the "day for a year" prophetic calculation is something the Lord would have us do. Then all we need to do is add 483 years to the date King Artaxerxes made the decree. That was in 457BC. Adding 483 to 457BC you will come to the EXACT year Jesus Christ put His foot in the river Jordan to be baptized! Messiah has arrived!
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