1-08-06 - “The Longest Time Prophecy in the Bible – Part 5” 2L-FM
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Today’s subject – “The Longest Time Prophecy in the Bible – Part 5”

Before we begin today’s program, shall we reverently seek God’s presence. Heavenly Father we ask for divine guidance as we open the word and continue to study the longest time prophecy in the Bible.  In Jesus name Amen.
I continue to keep my pledge to lift up my voice like a trumpet and to show God’s people where they are going against God’s Will.

We will continue now where we left off last week.
The disciples had to leave God's former chosen people, and go out to the whole gentile world and spread the gospel to those that would accept it. Saul of Tarsus was converted and became Paul. His mission was to bring the gospel to the Gentiles.
  	Let's go to Acts 13:45,46   
"But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.  Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you:  but seeing ye put if from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn (to who?) to the Gentiles." They tried to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the Jews, but in general they wouldn't accept it, so they had no other choice but to go to the Gentile world.  
	It goes on in verse 48 and says, "And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord:  and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed." 
	It says in Vs. 50 though, "But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts." 
Here again, we see the Jews rejecting the gospel.   (Acts 18:5,6)
	Remember Jesus said, "Your house is left unto you desolate." My blessings, privileges, and presence are gone from you.
	He said in Matthew 21:43, "Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof."   
	What other nation was Jesus talking about?
	Galatians 3:6,7
“Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.  Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.”  
	Romans 10:12
“For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.”
	Galatians 3:29
“And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.”
The Gentiles who are in Christ are Spiritual Jews.
  	In Romans 11 that Paul speaks in a corporate sense about the natural branches of the tree being cut off because of unbelief, referring to the literal Jews.  He then tells of the wild branch, referring to the believing Gentiles, now being grafted onto the tree, that they can partake of the fatness of the root, which of course is referring to Christ.    
	Probation ceased for Israel in 34 AD, but Jewish people can be saved and are being saved today, the same way you and I are— through faith in the sinless life and atoning death of Jesus Christ. 
	When Jesus told the Jews in a parable that the vineyard would be taken from those who were undeserving and let out to other husbandmen, (Matt. 21:41) the vineyard represents the rich blessings that God had poured out upon Israel. The Master of the vineyard is God.  He was to take that vineyard from the Jews and lease it out to those who were more worthy, meaning the Gentiles! 
 	Now the true Jews today are spiritual Israel, the Christian Church!   The name Israel becomes a spiritual term, and represents the Christian Church in the New Testament era. 
	Romans 8:14
“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.”
	Romans 2:28, 29  "For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; … But he is a Jew which is one (where?) inwardly; "
	Paul said.  You are a Jew, which is to say, a "spiritual Jew," if you are a Christian, truly converted to Christ.  
	Jesus said in John 4:22 that "salvation is of the Jews."  This is New Testament theology.  New Testament teaching.  This is the New covenant.
In AD34 the 70 weeks or 490 years ended when Stephen became the first Christian martyr. The Jewish leaders had rejected the gospel and then it went to the Gentiles. 
	Daniel 9:25  
"Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment (the decree, the edict) to restore and to build (what city?) Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be (how much time before you get to the Messiah?) seven weeks, (that's forty-nine years) and threescore (how much is a score? Twenty.  Three times twenty is: 60) and two weeks.” So you have 62 weeks plus the seven weeks. (7+60+2 = 69)  And how many weeks did we deal with originally?  Seventy!  So how many weeks would be left there?  Just one.
	Now notice very carefully.  If we started out right, then we should be able to go 69 prophetic weeks until we come to the Messiah.  Who's the Messiah?  
	In the Hebrew, the meaning for Messiah is "the anointed one."  And guess what the meaning for Christ is in the Greek?  "The anointed one."  So whether you have "Messiah" in the Old Testament Hebrew, or whether you have "Christ" in the New Testament Greek, they both mean the same thing, "the anointed one." 
	There would be 69 weeks, and then would come the anointed one."  Jesus would receive the Holy Spirit. Sixty-nine weeks. How many days in a week? Seven. And we have Sixty-nine weeks;  69 x 7 = 483 days or years.  
	We have 483 years from the decree to rebuild, until Messiah the Prince.  When did we start? 457 B.C. 483 years counted from 457 B.C. would bring you all the way to 27 A.D.  According to the Bible, Artaxerxes  made his decree in the autumn of 457 B.C.  
	Go down 483 years and you come down to what took place in Luke 3:1   
"Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar... "   
	The 15th year of Tiberius Caesar was A.D.27.  What happened in that year?  Jesus was baptized.
	Vs.21,22  "Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened, 
	And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased."
This is the anointing of the Messiah, the Christ, the Saviour of man.  
The Holy Spirit descended upon Jesus in the form of a dove, and this was the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar.
  	Jesus left the carpentry business, because the Holy Spirit led Him down to the banks of the Jordan River to be baptized and anointed by the Holy Ghost according to this prophecy. He grew up knowing that He was the Son of God, for He read the book of Daniel and was time conscious. Jesus recognized what had happened when the Holy Spirit anointed Him at His baptism. He was baptized right on time.
	Mark 1:14,15   
"Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching ( the what?) the gospel of the kingdom of God.  
	And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand:  repent ye, and believe the gospel." 
What time was fulfilled? There's only one time that could have been fulfilled and that was prophetic time.
Jesus was baptized right on time and anointed as the Messiah by the Holy Spirit descending upon Him in the form of a dove and the confirming voice of the Father speaking from heaven.  Something special had happened.  A new time period had begun.  Jesus came in on time. .
	Lest there be any doubt about the anointing coming at the baptism,
In Acts 10:37,38  (1091) it says, and "That word, I say, ye know, … after the baptism, which John preached; How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power:" 
	The 69 weeks or 483 years takes us to 27AD and Jesus’ anointing by baptism.
There is one week of the 70 weeks, or 7 years of the 490 years, remaining.
	Now notice Daniel 9:26,27
"And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: (Why was Jesus cut off?  For who's sins?  For your sins and mine.) and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; 
	Isaiah 53:8
“he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.”  
	And he shall confirm the covenant with many for (how long?)  one week:  and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, . . . "
	Here's the final week of the seventy weeks prophesied about in Vs.24.  The final 7 years.  "And he shall be cut off . . . . in the midst of the week. . " 
	What's the middle of seven? Three and a half. Three and a half years, or the middle of the week, the seven years, would be the Spring of 31 A.D.  
	Friends, what happened in the Spring of 31 AD? Jesus, the Son of God was crucified!  What else would He do at that time? According to the Bible "he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease." Sacrifice and offering came to an end when Jesus died.  How did that take place?  
	God gave them a big clue. God rent in two the veil of the temple separating the apartment of the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.  
	That was the hour of the evening sacrifice and the knife fell from the priest’s hand, and the lamb sacrifice escaped. Did the Jews take the clue? Sadly, they continued to offer animal sacrifices and perform services that had ended at the cross. 

Time is up for this week, so be tuned in next week as we present “The Longest Time Prophecy in the Bible – Part 6”

Until next week, Jesus said in John 5:39, “Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me”. Even so, Come Lord Jesus.