1-15-06 - “The Longest Time Prophecy in the Bible – Part 6” 3L-FM
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Today’s subject – “The Longest Time Prophecy in the Bible – Part 6”

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 entire animal sacrificing ceremony only had meaning as it pointed to the cross. But when the Lamb of God died in the midst of the week, right on time, animal sacrifice was nailed to the cross.
	Jesus died right on time. The necessary sacrifice for sin had been completed, and Jesus said it is finished.
  	Here we see that all these prophetic dates exactly fit the crucial events of Jesus' life. Jesus died in the spring of 31 AD, exactly 3 1/2 years into the final week of the prophecy.
	We know Jesus was baptized in the 15th year of Tiberius Caesar.  If we take the Bible account as listed in the book of John, it lists 4 Passovers which came in the Spring and on the 4th Passover Jesus was crucified.  If you list those 4 Passovers from the fall of 27 A.D., it brings you according to the Bible record to 31 A.D. –exactly in the middle or “midst” of the 70th or final week of the prophecy. 
 	Jesus is who He claimed to be, the Messiah.  This is the foundation of our faith. He went willingly to Calvary to fulfill Bible prophecy word for word.  God didn't want us to guess as to who the true Messiah was!
 	Have you ever heard of the seven-year tribulation period? Do you know where the seven-year tribulation theory comes from? Believe it or not friends, from this very prophecy that we have studied.	
This one week of seven years right here.  And it doesn't take a scholar to realize we have 70 weeks, 69 to the Messiah, and we have 1 in between. But they have taken the 70th week out of its Biblical context, and without any Biblical support or any Bible reason, thrown it 2000 years into the future and applied to the end of time. They say that the 70th week applies to the last days after the rapture, and the Jewish people are going to be God's people again, during a 7-year tribulation. That's where that idea comes from. 
	And because this prophecy centered so much on King Jesus, the devil has taken this part of the prophecy that applies so beautifully to events that surrounded the 1st coming of Jesus, he has cunningly confused many sincere folks in today's Christian community, to wrongly apply the 70th week to a false understanding of the Antichrist.
	The devil is working today much as he worked in Jesus' day.  In Jesus' day the devil used prophecies of Jesus' 2nd coming and applied them to Jesus' 1st coming, and it was very effective.  Today, he is doing just exactly the opposite.  He is using prophecies of His 1st coming and applying them to the time of His 2nd coming, and wonder of wonders, it's just as effective today as it was back then.  
	 I don't know why it's so easy to believe things that just aren't in the Bible and so hard to believe things that are in the Bible.  
	Listen, If Daniel 9, Verses 24, 25, and 26 apply to the Messiah, then is it not logical to think that Vs.27 will climax about the Messiah!  Carefully read and study and you'll find it's logical and clear.
	Daniel 9:27 "And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: ..."  
It is Christ, not the Antichrist whom the Bible speaks about making a covenant with many!
	Matthew 26:28 says, "For this is my blood of the new testament (covenant), which is shed for many for the remission of sins."
	Jesus is the maker of the eternal, everlasting covenant with man-kind and He sealed or confirmed that covenant with His own blood on Calvary. The covenant that if we sinned, and rebelled against Him He would give His life for our salvation.
	Alright now, Jesus came announcing that the time had been fulfilled for the first part of this prophecy.  What about the end of the 2300 years?  
	What about His final work in the heavenly sanctuary? 
	What would happen at the end of the 2300 years? Just as surely as Jesus was baptized on time; died on time; and went into the Holy Place to begin His high priestly ministry on time; now, in the time of the end, He went into His final phase of judgment in the Most Holy Place of the heavenly sanctuary, right on time, so that He may fulfill the type given in the earthly sanctuary by performing a work of judgment, by cleansing the heavenly sanctuary of the record of all sin before He returns to this earth.   
	Daniel 8:14
"And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed."
What is the cleansing of the Sanctuary?
	Leviticus 16:30 
“For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD.”  
The cleansing of the sanctuary was a day of judgment for Israel and it symbolized the final judgment.
	When would this cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary, or final judgment begin?
	If 490 years are cut off form the 2300 years, then we have 1810 years left.  
	So 1810 years added to A.D.34 take us to the year —1844.   
	This means, according to the Bible, that since 1844 we've been living in what the Bible calls God's judgment hour. 
	That is clear. Do you see it? I want you to think about that for a minute.  That's why since that time we've had an incredible increase in war and world wars I & II. That's why we've had widespread famine, crime, violence, and upheavals in nature.
	And as Daniel 12:4 says an incredible increase in knowledge.  We've been living in what the Bible calls the "time of the end."  
	According to Bible prophecy, we know there were specific dates in 27 AD, 31 AD and 34 AD. Then the angel said there's going to be an appointed time that marks the time of the end, called the judgment, after the 2300 days, which ended on time in 1844.  
	161 years ago, the judgment began in heaven.  And Christ once, in the time of the end, is going to put away sin. Christ is going to do a work of judgment so He can appear the second time without sin unto salvation. That means today and for 161 years, we have been living in the specific time of the end that the work of judgment is taking place. 
 	Every person who has ever named the name of Christ will be judged.  Either their sins are being blotted out, and Christ is confessing their name before the Father in heaven, or their name is being blotted.
	Jesus is coming soon!  The books of heaven are open!  Our name is coming up for review! 
	Jesus will soon declare the verdict, in Revelation 22:12, "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still:  and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still:  and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still:  and he that is holy, let him be holy still.  
	That will be the end of probation. Every case will have been decided.
Then after a short period where God’s mercy and grace are withdrawn from this rebellious planet, and God’s wrath is poured out in the seven last plagues, Jesus will come as it so states in 
	Revelation 22:13, “And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.” Every case will have been decided when He comes.
 	But for now, this message is given to urge all people in these last days to prepare their hearts to meet God.
	Revelation 14:6, 7 Let's read now Vs. 6, 7 with a whole new light upon it.  "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 (what?) is come!"
Since 1844, since the fulfillment of this 2300-day prophecy, that message has been preached and now you can see why God is so urgent about it.  The very language of Daniel 8:14 is Day of Atonement Imagery. 
	When one studies the history of the children of Israel in Old Testament times, they blew on the silver trumpets, warning the people that the day of Judgment was coming, and we can see deeply they examined their own lives.  They repented of sin and made sure that everything was right between them and God. We who are living now in the anti-typical day of Atonement, the day of the fulfillment of that Old Testament type, as God's people, ought to be dead serious about serving God, and making sure our hearts are right, our sins are confessed, and that we've made our surrender to Jesus Christ.  
Thank God for His love in sending us this beautiful warning message!
THE 1ST PART OF THE PROPHECY WAS TO PREPARE THE WORLD FOR THE FIRST COMING OF JESUS!   Most people in the time of Christ missed it!
	THE 2ND PART OF THE PROPHECY IS TO PREPARE THE WORLD FOR THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS!      Let's not miss it!!
	BOTH EVENTS ARE PART OF THE SAME PROPHECY BECAUSE BOTH PORTRAY, THE WORK OF JESUS ON OUR BEHALF, FIRST AS THE "LAMB OF GOD" (JOHN 1:29); AND SECONDLY, HIS WORK AS THE HIGH PRIEST IN THE HEAVENLY SANCTUARY, MINISTERING THE BENEFITS OF THE BLOOD OF THAT SACRIFICE ON OUR BEHALF.  (HEB.9:11, 12).
	ULTIMATELY, THE SECOND PART OF THE PROPHECY IS CRUCIAL BECAUSE IT REVEALS WHETHER WE HAVE TRULY ACCEPTED, BY FAITH, WHAT CHRIST ACCOMPLISHED FOR US DURING THE FIRST PART OF THE PROPHECY, NEAR THE END OF THE 70 WEEKS, AT CALVARY.   
	Revelation tells us that in the time of the judgment God opened the door of the temple in heaven. If the door opened, it must have been shut before. The only time the door of the Most Holy Place was opened was on the Day of Atonement. 
	When that door was opened in heaven, something happened on Earth. The end time message of Revelation 14:7 began to be proclaimed “Fear God, and give glory to Him, for the hour of his judgment is come.”   
That concludes our 6 part study on the longest time prophecy in the Bible and time is up for this week, so be tuned in next week as we present another great Bible topic for study.

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.