The Great Tribulation Hoax

I AM NOT A "KJV ONLY" ENTHUSIAST, BUT -----

ONLY ONE VERSE IS NEEDED TO CONVINCE ME THAT THE KING JAMES BIBLE IS THE BEST ON THE MARKET. LUKE 2:33. "And Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things which were spoken of him." MODERN TRANSLATIONS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE IMPROVEMENTS OVER THE "ARCHAIC KJV," BUT MODERN BIBLES MAKE JOSEPH TO BE THE FATHER OF JESUS. READ THAT SAME VERSE IN THE NASV, OR THE NIV, AND YOU, TOO, WILL BE CONVINCED THAT NEWER IS NOT NECESSARILY BETTER. IF THEY LIE ABOUT THE DEITY OF CHRIST, WHAT OTHER FALSEHOODS LIE HIDDEN WITHIN THE PAGES OF THESE MODERN WORKS?

THE RAPTURE QUESTION FINALLY ANSWERED.
THE BAPTISM OF FIRE
UNDERSTANDING THE BIBLE - AN ULTRA-MINIATURE "CRASH COURSE"
OLD SECRETS REVEALED BY NEW STUDIES
WHEN IS THE END?
WHAT IS PASTOR JOHN HAGEE PREACHING?
"FULNESS" IS NOT "FULL NUMBER"
IS ELIAS COMING AGAIN?
COVENANTS
WHAT IS AN UNCONDITIONAL COVENANT?
THE MOST IMPORTANT PROPHETIC VERSES IN THE BIBLE
WHO WAS BLINDED?
GENTILES BE COME IN
DIFFICULT SCRIPTURES
THE TIME OF CHRIST

HOW TO UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE

Isaiah 28:
v9 "Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts." I am sure he is talking about people who are no longer brand new Christians. Bible scholars should (you would think) fit into that category. Some of them do.

v10 "For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little":

v11 "For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people." This is a prophecy of Jesus Christ speaking to the Israelites in parables. But it's also the best instruction I have ever seen for ordinary Bible study.

v12 "To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear."

v13 "But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken."
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THE "RAPTURE QUESTION?" AFTER TWO HUNDRED YEARS - THE ANSWER!
Q: What did Paul know about the rapture that we don't?
A: He knew that he'd be alive when it happened, because the Lord said he would be.

First Thessalonians 4:
13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

The Word of the Lord told Paul that he would be among those who were alive and remained after the dead were awakened out of their graves. Then they would all be caught up together.

Q: Does the Bible pinpoint the time of this "Rapture," or does it indicate that thousands of years could transpire before the rapture takes place?

A: The Bible pinpoints the time to just before the Great Tribulation Jesus spoke of, which happened when Titus invaded Jerusalem about AD66, 2000 years ago.

DANIEL 12: 1 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. 2 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. 3 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. 4 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.

Why does Michael stand up? You won't find the answer in any commentary. Prophecy gurus really have no idea why he stands up. All they know is that he stands up. They assume, somehow, that he defends Israel during that "great time of Jacob's trouble." They misread the Scriptures. Michael stands for the children of Daniel's people. We must assume that Daniel's people were the "good Jews" of Israel, and their children are the descendants who lived in the time of Christ. They were those who stood fast in the faith of Jesus Christ. They were Raptured. The Old Testament Jews were resurrected at about that time. All those who were caught up in the time of Jacob's trouble were the wicked Jews. If Michael defended them, he would be fighting against God. Michael had a different and seemingly unrelated mission...

Revelation 12:
7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, 8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. 9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. 10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.

"Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ..."

So, Michael stood up, and kicked the dragon out of heaven. Whan was that? When salvation came. Now, every Christian knows when salvation came. It came at the time of Christ, 2000 years ago. What about the "power of His Christ?" The Bible tells us explicitly: Christ received all power in the whole universe at His resurrection.

Romans 1:
4 And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:

Of course, this verse does not indicate how much power Christ received at His resurrection, and for some unexplained reason, some of our "men of the cloth" would rather limit that power to a kind of vague "spiritual" thing which He applies to us in the way of salvation and such. Some ministers do even worse, taking new Bibles to heart, and focus only on the "tremendous power" it took to raise Christ from the dead, and to declare Him the Son of God. Read a modern Bible: Romans 1:4, NASB, "who was declared with power to be the Son of God..." This appears to be a devious switching of words to obscure the fact that Christ was declared to be the Son of God POSSESSING power. Bible translators reversed two words, and clerics around the globe gasp in awe at the power God must have exerted, not only to raise Jesus Christ from the dead, but declare Him the Son of God! All that is, of course, nonsense!

Twice before in the New Testament God declared Jesus to be the Son of God, and the power He needed to do so wasn't even mentioned. Clearly this wording in the modern Bible was Satan's trick to diminish the power of Christ in any way he could. And in al the Liberal hoopla, the fact that Christ received all the power in the universe have been neatly overlooked and forgotten. Many good conservative preachers believe that He is still sitting in heaven on His Fathers' throne, anxious to come back to earth and assume His place on the throne of David's kingdom. That, of course, is more nonsense. Christ today sits on His own throne, and rules in His own kingdom,

Romans 1:4 is not about any power God needed to declare Christ the Son of God. The verse was telling us that Jesus Christ was declared to be the Son of God POSSESSING power. It is the verse which tells us God the Father gave Jesus Christ the Son all power in the world. This next verse nails it down:

Matthew 28: 18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

That is what He said to the eleven disciples after His resurrection. Our prophecy experts, so taken with "new and scholarly works," never bothered to look deep enough into Scriptures to find the real truth. Millions are being deceived.

But, back to the timing of the Rapture. Daniel 12 and Revelation 12 works hand in hand to point us in the right direction as to when the Rapture took place. Daniel described Michael as the "great prince which standeth for the children of thy people," and prophesied that Michael would "stand up," and Revelation 12 tells us why. He stood up to cast Satan out of heaven, and to keep him out for good. Michael freed up considerable space in heaven for the good people of Israel, whose tenure on earth ended, and whose kingdom was hereafter to be set up in heaven.

On earth the first tribulation had ended, and the second, the Great Tribulation, was about to begin. Satan was out of heaven, but not out of work. He had two more jobs awaiting him. Christ would used him, the dragon, to gather all the nations of the Roman Empire together the march on Jerusalem. It was the Day of vengeance of our God upon the wicked and unbelieving of Israel, and the end of the holy nation. The power of the holy people was scattered (Dan. 12:7), and after that no one could legitimately call himself a Jew. (The world is full of Gentiles who think they are "Jews," but are not. Ever since AD70, there have been no Jews on earth (Romans 11:32). There are only "Psuedo-Jews," deceived, thinking that they can live by the Law, but are actually under a curse.
"For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed [is] every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them" (Galatians 3:10).

SCHOLARS HAVE KEPT SOME THINGS SECRET

YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A SEMINARY GRADUATE.

KNOWING GREEK OR HEBREW IS NOT NECESSARY (IF YOU HAVE A GOOD ENGLISH TRANSLATION.).

THE BEST ENGLISH TRANSLATION IS THE 1611 KING JAMES BIBLE.

LEARNING THE GREEK AND HEBREW LANGUAGES WILL HELP YOU KNOW THE GREEK AND HEBREW LANGUAGES; BUT THAT WILL DO NOTHING TO HELP YOU UNDERSTAND THE WORD OF GOD.

BEGIN WITH ISAIAH 28: "PRECEPT UPON PRECEPT"

GOD THE FATHER GAVE GOD THE SON THE LAST WORD IN EVERYTHING.

CHRIST DIDN'T SAVE HIS PEOPLE THE FIRST TIME THEY RECEIVED HIM AS SAVIOUR.

HE DIDN'T MAKE THEM CHILDREN OF GOD; HE GAVE THEM POWER TO BECOME CHILDREN OF GOD.

BUT ISRAELITES HAVE IN THE PAST BEEN CHILDREN OF GOD.

IF CHRIST GAVE THEM POWER TO BECOME CHILDREN OF GOD, THAT MEANS THAT AT SOME POINT THEY HAD CEASED TO BE CHILDREN OF GOD.

SO THEY HAD TO BECOME "BORN AGAIN."

BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THE BIBLE SAYS NOTHING ABOUT A FUTURE SEVEN YEAR "GREAT TRIBULATION."

BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THERE WERE TWO TRIBULATIONS CONCERNING THE JEWS IN THE FIRST CENTURY.

THE FIRST TRIBULATION WAS A TIME OF TESTING THE FAITHFULNESS OF THE BELIEVING JEWS.

SOME JEWS ENDURED THIS TIME OF TESTING TO THE END.

THEIR SALVATION WAS THEN CONFIRMED.

MANY DID NOT ENDURE, AND FELL AWAY.

THEY PERISHED THE SECOND TRIBULATION, A GREAT TRIBULATION.

THE BIBLE REFERS TO THE FIRST TRIBULATION AS THE "BAPTISM OF FIRE."

THE TRUE BELIEVERS, THE TRUE ISRAEL, ENDURED THE FIRST TRIBULATION TO THE END. THEY WERE "ALL ISRAEL."

THESE WERE THE "ALL ISRAEL" PAUL REFERS TO WHEN HE WRITES THAT "ALL ISRAEL SHALL BE SAVED."

AT SOME POINT, EITHER JUST BEFORE THE DAY OF VENGEANCE (AD70), OR JUST AFTER, ALL THE SAVED OF ISRAEL WERE RAPTURED.

AT ABOUT THAT SAME TIME ALL OF OLD TESTAMENT ISREAL WERE RESURRECTED.

THEY ARE ALL IN HEAVEN, IN THE NEW JERUSALEM.

I BELIEVE THAT THEY WILL BE THERE FOR THE DURATION OF THE "MILLENNIUM," THE PRESENT CHURCH AGE.

REVELATION CHAPTER 20 TELLS A DIFFERENT STORY THAN WE HAVE HEARD IN THE PAST.

THE BIBLE IS WRITTEN BY THE JEWS, FOR THE JEWS, AND MOSTLY ABOUT THE JEWS.

THE TIMES OF THE GENTILES BEGAN IN AD70, AND WILL CONTINUE TILL THE END OF TIME.

THERE IS NO FUTURE FOR ISRAEL.

THERE IS NO ISRAEL.

THE YEAR, 1948, HELD NO PARTICULAR SIGNIFICANCE, AS FAR AS SCRIPTURE IS CONCERNED

THERE ARE NO JEWS IN THE WORLD TODAY, SCRIPTURALLY SPEAKING.

THE SO-CALLED "JEWS" IN THE WORLD TODAY ARE DECEIVED GENTILES.

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CHRIST HAS THE LAST WORD
John 3:35 "The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand."
John 5:20 "For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel."
Whatever the Lord Jesus Christ said, take that as gospel truth. If it doesn't seem to make sense, believe it anyway. As an example, the passage of Scripture below is a source of needless debate among numerous Bible experts:

"And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?" (Mt. 17:10) "And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things." (Mt. 17:11) "But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them." (Mt.17:12) "Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist."(Mt.17:13)
Admittedly, Jesus' answer is a bit puzzling. He said, "Elias truly shall first come..." Then He followed that up with: "But I say unto you, that Elias has come already..." When Jesus says, "But I say unto you, That Elias has come already," He did not contradict the scribes. They wrote that Elias would first come, and Jesus agreed that what they wrote was true. But what the scribes apparently didn't know was that Elias really would come, but instead of Elias personally, it would be John the Baptist, who came in the spirit and power of Elias. When all the relevant Scriptures are considered, it is not difficult to see that this "coming of Elias" had already happened.
Only a futuristic frame of mind prompts the question. And of course, a future coming of a "reincarnated" Elias would fit nicely into the scenario of a future "tribulation," and a future Second Coming of Christ, a future Roman Empire, a future "restored Israel," and so on. There is a bit of irony here, because this view requires a spiritual coming of Elias. Dispensationalists, who constantly toot the "literal interpretation" horn must, in this case, abandon literalism, and resort to spiritualizing the Scriptures.
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BAPTISM OF FIRE

Paul was afraid that after he was gone from the scene, false teachers would come in, and scatter the Church: "For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock" Acts 20:29). If Paul's fears were not without substance, it follows then, that for nearly 2000 years Satan has been disseminating false doctrine among the Church faithful - ungodly teachings of every kind, which are more and more difficult to distinguish from things ligitimate over time as they become embedded in the minds of the faithful, and are like tares among the wheat.
Several current notions about the Baptism of Fire, innocuous as they may seem to be, actually cast a fog over a goodly portion of biblical prophecy.

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THE END - WHEN?

According to the teaching of Bible prophecy experts of the futurist bent, virtually all Scriptural mention of the end, or the end times, or the last times, etcetera, have reference to a yet future time of a seven year "Great Tribulation." Wrong! When the Bible speaks of the end, it is almost always referring to the end of Israel, and that end came 2000 years ago. The end of the Gentile world, that's our present world - is another story. The TIME OF THE END, the END TIMES, the LAST TIMES, the LAST DAYS, the DAY OF THE LORD, the DAY OF CHRIST, etcetera, etcetera, all took place between the day the angel Gabriel announced the birth of Jesus, and the end of the war between Israel and Rome in AD70, and may loosely be termed, THE TIME OF CHRIST.

There is no future seven year "Great Tribulation." There were, however, two consecutive tribulations in those days, the first lasted about forty years, and was designed to test and prove those Jews who professed faith in Jesus Christ. It was a way of purging out the antichrists. The Bible calls it the "Baptism of Fire." Those Jews who endured to the end (of that tribulation), who overcame Satan and all his tricks to lure them back into the old system, and to cause them to fall away, did not have their names blotted out of the Book of Life; their salvation was secured.

There will be no future Rapture of the Church. The Rapture took place 2000 years ago, also during the time of Christ. Paul, who personally was taught a great deal by Christ for three years, knew more than we give him credit for when he included himself in that group that was to be raptured, whether dead in Christ or still alive and remaining.

The Old Testament Jews, the twelve tribes of Israel, were resurrected at that time. That was prophesied by Daniel. The raptured New Testament Jews were taken up to heaven. And so were the Old Testament Israelites. They are all up there now, living in the New Jerusalem. That city has twelve gates, named after the twelve tribes, and twelve foundations, named after the twelve apostles. On the inside, you can bet there are at least twelve thrones, for the twelve apostles who, with the Lord Jesus Christ, are ruling and judging the twelve tribes of Old Israel. That situation is sure to continue throughout the Church Age, the period Revelation refers to as the "thousand years." Prophecy experts preach that we, the Gentile Church, are the "heavenly people," while the Jews are the "earthly people." Ignore the experts. Their interpretations are roughly ten percent Bible, and ninety percent wishful thinking. Notice, the Heavenly City has the 12 names on the foundations, and 12 names on the gates, and none of them are Gentile names. That fact, and Revelation 21:24-26 are cause for some sober thinking: "And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it. And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it." Who are the nation of them that are saved? And who are the kings of the earth? If all the Jews, both Old and New Testament, are on the inside, who are those on the outside? I believe that is us Gentiles, brother!

Not that we are going to have it so bad. I think that the world will be our oyster, so to speak. Personally, I couldn't picture myself happy, being closed up in a city with 200 feet high walls and everything, afraid to walk around much, for fear of leaving scuff-marks on those gold streets. Give me a little ranch in Texas or Montana anytime.

During this time Satan is shut up in the "Bottomless Pit." At the end of the thousand years, he is released for a little while to cause havoc until Christ disposes of him for good. Some scholars do not believe that Satan is imprisoned in any kind of Bottomless Pit or "Abyss," or such, because they believe he is in the world, causing people to do all the evil things they do. But there is good biblical reason to believe that he is not totally shut up. During Christ's ministry, Satan was around, pestering Jesus, and causing whatever trouble he could. And yet at one point Jesus said that the "prince of this world is coming..." So, if he was coming, it means that he was not here. Maybe he was, and maybe he wasn't. Here is a Bible verse that sounds like a riddle: "The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is"(Revelation 17:8). This "beast" is not that fabled human "Antichrist." This one comes up out of the bottomless pit. The "Antichrist" is, they say, human, and no human was shut up in the bottomless pit. This "beast," therefore, is Satan himself. One way to explain this is to view Satan as a "man of many hats." Satan is bad enough doing the common everyday things the devil does. But you don't want to be around when he is revealed wearing the hat of "prince of this world." That's when all hell breaks loose, as the unbelieving Jews learned in the war of AD70.

Many fantastic things happened during the times of Christ.
Christ was crucified, and took away the sins of the whole world.
Michael and Satan fought in heaven, and Satan was cast out.
As mentioned, all Jews were taken into heaven.
The Church was instituted.
The nation Israel was shut down permanently. God set up His Kingdom.
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PASTOR JOHN HAGEE PREACHES HERESY!

What has possessed Pastor John Hagee (and a few other Christian leaders) to minimize what Christ had done on the Cross, and to kiss up to the "Jews" the way he has been doing lately. According to Hagee's teaching, Jesus wasted His time dying on the cross for Jews, because they have a prior covenant: the cross is not necessary ! Does he not read the Bible? Does he not know that there are no Jews in the world today? Does he not know that God has already chosen the people who were His out of the Jewish nation 2000 years ago? The things Hagee says are clearly unbiblical to anyone who reads and understands the Bible.

"The law of Moses is sufficient enough to bring a person into the knowledge of God until God gives him a greater revelation." Moreover, he told the Houston Chronicle, in a recent interview: "I believe that every Jewish person who lives in the light of the Torah, which is the word of God, has a relationship with God and will come to redemption."

Lest he be misunderstood, Hagee says later in the interview: "I'm not trying to convert the Jewish people to the Christian faith." Further quoting the Chronicle: "They have a faith structure. In fact, trying to convert Jews is a 'waste of time,'... The Jewish person who has his roots in Judaism is not going to convert to Christianity. Everyone else, whether Buddhist or Baha'i, needs to believe in Jesus, he says. But not Jews. Jews already have a covenant with God that has never been replaced by Christianity." And he says this: "There are millions of evangelical Christians across America who consider the Jewish people the apple of God's eye, who see you as the chosen people, a cherished people and a covenant people with an eternal covenant that will stand forever."

It is possible that Pastor Hagee, like so many others, has been deceived by modern Bible translations, which conceal the fact that, because of Israel's persistent disobedience and unbelief, God converted all Jews into Gentiles some 2000 years ago, and brought an end to His beloved nation. Pastor Hagee, like many others, doesn't know that Israel has already experienced her last days. The Torah doesn't reveal it. And neither do modern translations.

"For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief: Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy. For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all"(Romans 11:30-32 KJV). This passage needs very little explaining. Paul is writing to the Gentiles in Rome about the Israelites, and relating how God disowned His people because of unbelief so that mercy and salvation could come to Gentiles, which in turn, would bring mercy and salvation to the Jews. God converted all Jews into "unbelieving Gentiles," but left the door wide open for Jews to return to Him in the same way which He provided for the Gentiles: through faith in Jesus Christ. In fact, there would be no other way for anyone, Jew or Gentile, to come to Him.

It is well-known that in the past Jews were part of the Family of God even from birth, unlike the Gentiles. They had the temple, and animal sacrifices, and so forth to atone for sins. But after Christ's sacrifice on the cross, these would no longer avail, and anyone who rejected salvation through Christ was left stranded, and utterly helpless and hopeless. Paul makes that clear: "We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles. Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified" (Galatians 2:15-16). Anyone, even the "Jew," who thinks that he can live by the Law, actually places himself under a deadly curse. "For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed [is] every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them"(Galatians 3:10). Do we wonder why the people who have chosen to "live by the Law," and call themselves Jews, have been so persecuted for nearly 2000 years?

So, where on earth did Pastor Hagee get the idea that Jews have a prior covenant, that the cross is not necessary? That ultimately comes from the depths of the devil's darkness, and many Christian clerics have been duped into believing such a horrible lie! God's ultimate goal, if you please, was that all people everywhere be saved, and come to the knowledge of the Lord. But rebellious Israel stood in the way, so to speak. The covenants which God had made with the nation gave them inborn status and position which they steadfastly refused to live up to, hindering rather than advancing the way the way of salvation for mankind. So God solved that problem by converting the Jews into Gentiles, making both the same, putting no difference between them. The Jew was no longer spiritually superior to the Gentile. In fact he was no longer a Jew.

The "Jew" today deceives himself into thinking that he is above all others just because they were so in the Old Testament times. When Christ came, all things changed. Today, there is one cardinal truth today which everyone should live by: " Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also"(1John 2:23). And "Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son" (2John 1:9). The wannabe "Jew" can believe anything he wants, often to his own peril, but Christian leadership has no such liberty; they must be Christ-centered. To be Christ-centered is to put Christ, and everything He ever said, at the forefront of all else. There is no greater despicable form of antisemitism than that which falsely "assures" people of eternal salvation while encouraging them to reject the only source of salvation available to anyone.
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TILL THE FULL NUMBER OF THE GENTILES COME INTO THE CHURCH????

This is the kind of "improved" Bible translation we get from modern scholarship, and it has resulted in some utterly foolish interpretations, and ultimately spawned some absurd, and ungodly doctrines. The biblical passage which the modernists destroyed, and which has since been so misunderstood, is Romans 11:25 KJV: " For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in." The correct word is "fulness," not "full number, as in the NIV and others." It has nothing to do with how many Gentiles "come into the church," or anything like that. "Fulness" has a different meaning altogether. Try making sense of the following passage: "And of his full number have all we received, and grace for grace" (John 1:16). Modernists apparently recognized the obvious absurdity of revising this passage, and changing "fulness" to "full number," so they left it alone. Why they saw fit to revise Romans 11:25 is anybody's guess. There, "full number" is just as ridiculous as it would be in John 1:16. "Fulness" means "full stature," or "full prominence." When the prominence (in God's eyes) of Israel came to an end, the prominence, or fulness, of the Gentiles came in, or came into being, or began.

How did the blindness of Israel come to an end? It wasn't simply "lifted," as some Bible scholars would suggest. That event was foretold in the Old Testament.
Isaiah 6: v8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. v9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. v10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. v11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, v12 And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land. v13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof. Isaiah 10:21 The remnant shall return, [even] the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.

Verses 11 and 12 describe only one future event: The Roman holocaust of AD70. Some Bible scholars suggest that Iaiah may not have been speaking of AD70, but instead, any one of numerous destructions of Jerusalem in the past, as, for example, the destruction by Babylon. The scholars overlook one important point: in none of the sieges of Jerusalem was there ever the blindness of the Israelites involved. From Isaiah's time perspective, the blindness would last until the devastating war of AD70. The New Testament reveals that only the incorrigible, the wicked unbelievers of Israel were blinded, and destroyed in the holocaust.. A "tenth," meaning, no doubt, a small number, the remnant, returned, not necessarily to Jerusalem, but to the Father. By that is meant that at some point God had concluded all Israel in unbelief; He pushed all His people away. So all Israelites were converted into "unbelieving Gentiles." They could come back (return) to the Father, but only through faith in the Son, Jesus Christ. Only about a tenth of the Israelites received Christ and came back to the Father. Among them was Paul, who acknowledged that, in order to be saved, even he believed. When Paul spoke of the "remnant," he was speaking of that small number of Jews who, like himelf, returned to the Father through faith in Jesus Christ.

The blindness ended in AD70, the state of Israel ended in AD70, the day of the Gentile came in, or as we would say in today's English, it began, at that time. It is amazing that from the time of Christ until AD70, some other things happened in the land which scholars totally have overlooked. Two different "tribulations" occurred. One was the "Baptism of Fire," the "first tribulation" as it were, which all professing Jews had to endure from Pentecost to the end of the Jewish System in order to secure their salvation. Immediately after the tribulation of those days, came the time of great Tribulation, in which the city and the temple fell, and the wicked of Israel perished. There was also the rapture of the New Testament saints, and the resurrection of the Old Testament Israelites, and, believe it or not, the return of Christ (Scholars laugh. because they didn't see this world-shaking event on TV or read about it in the newspapers. But there was no NBC, or ABC, and no Paparazzi then. The people who were meant to see it did indeed see it).

The Jews are all in heaven today, in the New Jerusalem, the twelve tribes of Israel being judged by the 12 apostles, and probably many of Christ's other disciples. God's program of taking the Gospel to the world was begun by the Jewish Church, and afterwards continued by the Church which eventually had a total Gentile makeup. Israel was not "set aside," nor eliminated. The faithful remnant were taken up to heaven, and the rest perished in the Roman war. With those two classes of Jews gone from the world, there was nothing left of Israel but desolation. Nothing in the Bible suggests that God will restore all those ancient nations and peoples we read about in the prophecies, and resume dealing with some arbitrarily selected generation of "Jewish" unbelieving pretenders in the future. The days of the Jew are over. There haven't been any Jews on earth for nearly 2000 years, as far as Scripture is concerned. All who pretend to be Jews are actually pseudo-Jews, or Gentiles, just like everyone else.

Would be "Jews" and Christian Zionists celebrate the year 1948 as though God had anything to do with restoring Israel. He did not. Man and the ungodly United Nations did it. Spiritually, it had no significance whatsoever. If you've lived back in those days, you might remember all the predictions our ecstatic Christian prophecy experts made about the Rapture happening forty years later, or the anti-Christ being revealed, or the beginning of the "Great Tribulation," and so forth and so forth. None of those things happened. Why? Because they weren't on God's calendar. Future-minded scholars worked out a plan of action concerning Jews, and expected God to follow their plan to the letter. It ain't gonna happen
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IS ELIAS COMING AGAIN?

If ever there was an instance when the Lord Jesus Christ seemed to be speaking in riddles, this is it:

"And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things. But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them. Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist" (Matt. 17:10-13).

Must Elias first come, or did he come already? Good question. The disciples understood what He was talking about, but do Bible scholars today understand? In Dr. Pentecost's Things To Come, more than four pages are devoted to arguments pro and con, whether or not Elijah has come already, and whether he must yet come in the future. We find that these scholars are true blue dispensational futurists; the debate concludes that Elijah must come in the future, at Christ's Second Coming:

"Inasmuch as John could not have fulfilled the prophecies because Israel rejected the kingdom, it does not seem possible to assert that the prophecy of Malachi 4:5-6 has been fulfilled. The fact that John could have fulfilled it, even though he was not personally Elijah, seems to indicate that Elijah need not come personally to fulfill the prophecies. During this period preceding the second advent, and prior to the outpouring of judgments upon the earth, there will be a ministry by one in the spirit and power of Elijah, which will fulfill this prophecy" (Pentecost, Things To Come page 313).

Dr. Pentecost, like most of the others, is a dispensationalist, and all his Bible interpretations are strongly flavored with the essense of futurism. And if there is one thing to be observed in dispensationalism, it is that they seem to believe Israel was in greater control of the future plans than God was. If these scholars were truly Christ-centered, they needed only ask themselves, who said what? And who said it last? The Old Testament prophecy was that Elias would come first, before the Messiah, and restore all things. "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse" (Malachi 4:5-6). Our Bible scholars danced right past this Scripture and never noticed it, because they had already determined that the Day of the Lord is a "technical term" belonging to the future Second Advent, and must await it's turn.
That is a mistake. A truly literal interpretation of the Bible pinpoints the Day of the Lord as occuring in the time of Jesus Christ, and before the end of the war to end all wars with Israel, the holocaust of AD70. That "Second Advent" took place within the time period dispensationlists alloted for the first avent, or perhaps the first few years of the "Gentile Church period," the so-called blank space between God's two dealings with Israel. But the word of the Lord stands, and the latest words of the Lord Jesus Christ take precedence over all, because "The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand"(John 3:35). Jesus said, "But I tell you, that Elias has come already." and what more do we need? When He says, "But I tell you..." that ought to settle all arguments; His word must always be the last word.

But besides all that, scholars did not read the "fine print" in Malachi's prophecy. This one "who came in the spirit and power of Elijah" may not have accomplished all that the prophecy called for. By all accounts, John didn't turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers. But that doesn't mean he has to come back in the future to finish the job. Most likely Israel was too far gone into wickedness and overspreading abomination, and ripe for judgment. And the prophecy covered that eventuality: "...lest I come and smite the earth with a curse..." For nearly 2000 years the "earth," meaning the land which concerned Israel, lay desolate, occupied largely by pathetic Muslims. You might say it was cursed. =================================================================================================

WERE ANY OF GOD'S COVENANTS WITH ISRAEL UNCONDITIONAL?

Scholars of the dispensational frame of mind would wage war with anyone to defend the position with which they grew up, and which was taught to them by their mentors and predecessors, and which they now have taught for years. The teaching? That God had made a number of "unconditional" covenants with Israel, and only one conditional, the Mosaic covenant. In fact, according to the one-time el-supremo of Dallas Theological Seminary, Dr. John Walvoord, it was through the unconditional covenants with Abraham and Israel that God revealed many of His prophetic plans of a yet future dealing with Israel. Herein may be the germ of dispensational futurism, a mistaken theory of things to come, founded on mistaken interpretations of mistaken modern biblical translations. It may be noted that at roughly the same time in history, modern Bibles have taken root, and many of these Bibles helped legitimize the Darby-Scofield theories nurtured by Dallas Theological Seminary. Our "good ole Fundamentalists", anxious to appear as sophisticated as the modern scholars, discovered an unending stream of "errors and mistranslations" in the King James Bible, which they happily revealed to their congregations. The standard for God's Word was no longer simple godly logic and consistency, it was now "what the Original Writings said," and what those writings said is what the modern scholars say they said. Quite often, when a modernist scholar refers to the "Original," our gullible Fundamentalists thought they were speaking of the Original Writings, when they only meant "original languages." There can be a vast difference, but the devil knew that most Fundamental Bible scholars never pay much attention to what they hear or read, and he could get away with promoting a lie by actually telling the truth.

It is my guess that the King James Bible, though having gone through some rough times, will eventually emerge again above the modern trash, and modern-minded Christian scholars who will "stick with" their new stuff in spite of good common sense will be largely ignored. May that day come soon. With a good Bible in hand, we can easily discover that God never made an "unconditional" covenant with anybody, or any nation.

Christians here and there are studying more, knowledge is increasing, opposing views are more and more coming to the surface, and dispensationalists are compelled to scramble for logical explanations to "prove" what they have been preaching all these years. I predict difficult times for the theories of dispensational futurism, and perhaps the day when they themselves will begin to discard that which is contrary to the Word of God. The sooner the better.
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WHAT IS AN "UNCONDITIONAL" COVENANT?

According to Dr. Thomas Ice: "An unconditional covenant is made when only one party is obligated to keep the stipulations of the agreement as in a Royal Grant. This point is important for Bible prophecy because at stake is whether or not God is obligated to fulfill His promise specifically to the original parties of the covenant. For example, I believe that God must fulfill to Israel as a national entity those promises made to them through unconditional covenants like the Abrahamic, Davidic, and Land of Israel covenants. If this is true, then they must be fulfilled literally and that means many aspects are still future."

Arnold Fruchtenbaum explains: "An unconditional covenant can be defined as a sovereign act of God whereby God unconditionally obligates Himself to bring to pass definite promises, blessings, and conditions for the covenanted people. It is a unilateral covenant. This type of covenant is characterized by the formula I WILL which declares God's determination to do exactly as He promised. The blessings are secured by the grace of God.

In truth, if we stick to a genuinely literal interpretation of the Bible, there is no such thing as an "unconditional covenant." The word "covenant" means "agreement between two parties." If a covenant is a unilateral covenant, as defined by Dr. Fruchtenbaum, then the party initiating the covenant is obligated to fulfill all the terms of the covenant, leaving the second party with nothing to do in return except to enjoy all the blessings of this "covenant." But if the second party, the "receiving party," is not required to do anything or to agree to anything to receive the blessings from the first party, then there is no agreement. And if there is no agreement, there is no covenant; it is a gift. It may further be said that a "gift" is intrinsically conditional, requiring the second party to accept and actively recieve the gift. If the gift is not accepted and received, then this so-called "unconditional covenant" is null and void, and becomes as if there was no gift offer at all.

The Abrahamic covenant (Genesis 12:1-3) was conditional from the get-go, even though no condition was explicitely stated by means of that dispensaitional "IF YE WILL" formula. Abraham was not "requested" to leave his father's homeland and journey to an unknown country, but actually commanded, to do so. The conditional nature of this covenant is evidenced by verse 2: "AND I will make of thee a great nation..." In the New International Version, verse 1 is given in normal narrative, but that narrative is interrupted after verse 1, and beginning at verse 2, the rest is given as poetry! There is not one word in the margins to explain this bizarre aberration of Scripture. Why? Why on earth would they print part of a passage as narrative, and part as poetry? Of course, when we look at verse 2 we see the answer: "I will make you into a great nation..." Notice what's missing, the conjunction "and" which makes verse 2 the consequence of verse 1, and thus a conditional covenant. That trivk can only be a design to make the covenant seem "unconditional." Never mind that it is a very feeble, and even stupid, effort at deception by the modernist translators. It didn't seem to hinder Satan's plan to deceive a whole world of Christians.

What would have happened if Abraham had decided not to obey God's command to leave his father's country? Would he still receive the blessings promised in this "unconditional" covenant. You may think what you will, I for one, have grave doubts. I think that God had His heart set on establishing Abraham in the land of Canaan. Abraham's father lived, at the time, in Haran, in part of what is now Turkey. If Abraham had disobeyed, and the covenant had been without condition, as dispensationalists affirm, then Jerusalem would have been located somewhere in Turkey.

The key Bible passage to settle any and all arguments concerning the conditionality of God's covenants can be found in Deuteronomy 7:9 "Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;"

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THE MOST IMPORTANT PROPHETIC VERSE IN SCRIPTURE

"And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled."(LUKE 21:20-22)

Jesus was talking about the time of the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem, and said that those would be the days of the vengeance of God. Dispensational scholars are forced to admit that the temple and the city were destroyed 2000 years ago, as the Bible says, but question whether the Lord Jesus Christ was talking about the Roman siege in AD70, or some other of the many catastrophes that befell Jerusalem down through the centuries since then. This is a desperate grabbing at straws to help prop up a crumblng prophetic theology. The context of Luke chapter 21 makes it quite plain that He was talking about the destruction of the temple and city in AD70. But we have even more positive proof; Jesus could not have been referring to another occassion, because in this siege the temple was destroyed, and there never was another temple built after that. So, without a doubt, He was referring to the year AD70.

Most importantly, He said that in those days, all written prophecy would be fulfilled. That is good to remember.

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BLINDNESS IN PART

"For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in" (Rom 11:25).

Modern translations generally reword that as "a partial hardening," not realizing that, by "blindness in part," the Scriptures actually mean that part of Israel was blinded, part was not. Comparing Scripture with Scripture, this is verified in Romans 11:7: "What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded." The election, those who received Christ, escaped blindness, but the rest of Israel did not; they were blinded.

Modern translations could possibly lead to an interpretation which hardly fits the nature or the character of God, the interpretation being that all of Israel was partially blinded. The reason for this spiritual blindness, so they teach, is that, because Jews rejected and crucified Christ, God makes it more difficult for them to accept the Gospel of salvation.

Actually, Acts chapter 2 shows that God did not retaliate against national Israel for crucifying Christ. V23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:" V36 "Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ." V37 "Now when they heard this , they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?" V38 "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." V41 "Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls."

That is what God wanted, that men everywhere, even the men who crucified Jesus, would repent and be baptized and saved. He did not "partially blind" the nation to make repentance and salvation more difficult.

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UNTIL THE FULNESS OF THE GENTILES BE COME IN

A popular Bible teacher once wrote, "'The fulness of the Gentiles' began with the calling out of the church... It will continue until the rapture of the church. Blindness and hardening of Israel will continue as long as the church is present in the world" (McGee, thru the Bible, vol 4, p725). This kind of interpretation stems from a lack of understanding the KJV phrase, "fulness of the Gentiles be come in." Fulness is viewed as "full number," and be come in is somehow seen as a "coming in," or an "entering." Put these two thoughts together and "voila, the blindness of Israel will continue until the end of the church period, when the full number of Gentiles has come into the church." To preserve sanity, we'll not ask what that "full number" is. But that is not what this Scripture means. "Fulness," does not always mean "full number," as these Scriptures show:

In two verses below, I replaced "fulness" with "full number." See how it makes the verse absurd.
"Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence [is] full number of joy; at thy right hand [there are] pleasures for evermore" (Psalms 16:11).
"Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the full number of Christ:" (Ephesians 4:13)

In Romans 11:25, the blindness of Israel was to continue until the end time of Israel, when the times, or the day of Israel ended, and the times of the Gentiles came in, or began. Since AD70, we are living in the times of the Gentiles, because the times of Israel ended. "...If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things [which belong] unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes"(Luke 19:42).
As you might expect, modern translators changed the wording from "in this thy day," to "on this day." That completely changes the meaning to nonsense; nothing unusual happened on that day. Jesus was letting the Jews know that Israel was still in it's day, as it had been since it's beginning, and still had had opportunity to reverse their situation, but they rejected Him, and the things which belonged to their peace. Now the days of Israel was about over, and the Jews blinded. When the fulness of Israel ended, the fulness of the Gentiles came in. In other words, the fulness of the Gentiles, or the times of the Gentiles, began. After AD70, there was no more Israel.
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WHAT DO WE DO WITH SCRIPTURES LIKE THESE?

"But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved"
(MATTHEW 24:13). But we are supposed to be saved by grace. What is it that we have to endure, and when is this "end" that the Lord Jesus Christ is speaking of?

WHAT DO THE BIBLE SCHOLARS SAY?
One states, "How could I be saved by enduring, yet be saved by grace? No, the word saved here has a different context. Here in Matthew 24:13 Jesus is not speaking of the redemption of a soul. He speaks rather of the rescue of Jews in the midst of the tribulation."(Dr. John R. Rice, The King of The Jews, p 377)

So, the verse doesn't apply to us, it's about the Jews. That sounds plausible. But there is a problem here. Jesus said that to be saved, one must endure to the end. If the person is rescued in the midst of the tribulation, then he didn't endure to the end. Dr. Rice overlooked that point.

Another scholar writes: "The question is: Who endures to the end? Well, when I study the Book of Revelation, I find that God will stop all the forces of nature and of evil and even the forces of good while He seals a certain number of folk. So who is going to endure to the end? Those whom He seals at the beginning, of course. The Good Shepherd - in all ages - will bring His sheep through to the end." (Dr. J. Vernon McGee, Through The Bible, Vol 4 p 127)

I'm afraid that Dr. McGee paid even less attention to the Bible he studied than Dr. Rice. According to him, no one has to endure anything. The folk who are sealed at the beginning remain sealed to the end. That sounds wonderful, but again, it ignores the words of Christ: that he who endures to the end is saved. The converse of this must also be true; he who does not endure to the end is not saved.

We notice that many commentators skip over this verse completely.

There are more Scriptures which talk about losing one's salvation:
"He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels" (Rev. 3:5).

We know what the Book of Life means; this definitely has nothing to do with "physical rescue."

BUT WHAT IS THE "END" WHICH THE SCRIPTURE TALKS ABOUT?

"But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer" (1Peter 4:7). In the realm of dispensational futurism, we have been trained to ignore such phrases as "at hand." If that phrase contradicts the futurist agenda, then it is meaningless. We tend to view "The end of all things" as the final end of the world and "all things." But to the Jewish people of the first century, the world was their world, and the end of all things was the end of all things concerning them. Peter wrote, "The end of all things is at hand: be therefore sober, and watch unto prayer." Of course, being sober, and watching unto prayer, is undeniably, a good thing, but Peter wrote that 2000 years ago; what should we be watching for?

If we are saved, and according to the dispensational rapture theory, we're going up to meet the Lord in the air whether we watch or not (unless we're not sober. I'm not sure what effect that might have) Again, according to the theory, the rapture could occur at any moment, day or night. If we happen to be sleeping, we will not be watching. Does that mean we will miss the rapture?

Peter must have been talking about something else. The "end" was much closer to Peter's time than futurism allows.

"Who shall also confirm you unto the end, [that ye may be] blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ" (1Corinthians 1:8).
Paul was writing to the people alive in his day, so this verse seems to give us a clue: The "end" seems to happen at the same time as the "day of our Lord Jesus Christ."

"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"(Matthew 24:14).
This verse indicates that the end doesn't come before the gospel of the Kingdom is preached in all the world. Jesus said, "this gospel of the kingdom. Today the gospel of the kingdom is not being preached, but the Gospl of Salvation. Scholars relegate all this to the future tribulation, when, they say, the gospel of the kingdom will again be preached. But it can be proven beyond a doubt that there is no future tribulation. So, the gospel of the kingdom which was preached in that day would be preached in all the world before the end would come. It is interesting that not too many years later, Paul reported that the disciples had done just that. "If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister"(Col 1:23); So the stage was set for the end to come. and it came while many of that generation of first century Jews were still living.
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MANY THINGS HAPPENED IN THE TIME OF CHRIST

We estimate the Time of Christ to be equivalent to the Time of the End, or to the Last Days, or to the End Times, or to the Last Hour, and so forth. This time period spanned the announcement of the birth of Jesus, to the Roman holocaust of AD70.

WHEN DID MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL CAST SATAN AND HIS ANGELS OUT OF HEAVEN?

Our first clue is given in Revelation 12: v7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, v8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. v9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

These three verses are self-explanatory. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon (devil) and his angels, and kicked them out of heaven for good. When did that happen? The dispensationalist says that this will take place during that future "seven year Great Tribulation," but that "tribulation" has been fabricated from a myriad of erroneous interpretations by the same people who say that Satan was also cast out of heaven eons before time began. If he was cast out before, who let him back in so that he has to be cast out again? Dispensational scholarship is hardly to be relied upon. For one thing, Satan could not have been cast out of heaven "eons before time began" because he was created on a certain day, and there were no days before time began. If he existed before time began, then he would have existed from all eternity, and would have been equal to God. Heaven forbid!

Verse 10 of Revelation 12 gives us the approximate time. "And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren [Israelites] is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night." Now, just who were these people in heaven speaking with a loud voice is open to question. However, for our purpose, that is not important. What is relevant is that this loud voice said "NOW is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ." All this could point to the day of Christ's resurrection, when salvation came, but most likely it happened nearer to the time of the invasion of Jerusalem by Rome. We see that in the book of Daniel 12:1 "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." "At that time shall Michael stand up." (This was future to Daniel's time, who prophesied this some five hundred years before it happened.) The "time of trouble" was, without a doubt, the time when Israel would suffer the Great Tribulation spoken of by Christ in the Oliver discourse, the destruction of the city and temple in AD70. Dispensationalists notice that Michael stands up, but being dedicated futurists, they have no idea why. It can hardly be questioned that Michael stood up to fight. Even angels don't fight sitting down (that was before tanks and airplanes).

And at that time shall thy people be delivered, everyone that shall be found written in the book. Who was found written in the book? For that we must go to Revelation 3:5 "He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels." Here the plot thickens, and we could wind up chasing rabbits all over the place, so we must cut it short, and say that those who were found in the book were the overcomers of that day. They were those believing Jews who endured to the end. They had endured several years of tribulation, of testing. They came through the "baptism of fire." Their salvation was confirmed. How did they overcome? Revelation 12:11 "And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death."
"Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time." I kind of believe that the devil came down to the earth to do a job for God, that is, to gather all the nations of the Roman Empire, and lead them into the holy land for the day of vengeance of our God. That war lasted about three and a ahlf years. For Satan, doing what he liked to do best, that time was veryshort. After God was through with him, an angel put him in chains, and locked him up in the bottomless pit for the duration of the Church Age, which began after Israel was destroyed.

The Old Testament Israelites were resurrected at that time also. "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." (Dan 12:2) v3 "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." Daniel was speaking from his own time perspective here. He was looking ahead to the forty years between Pentecost and the Roman holocaust, and commenting on those who would be wise, and turn many to righteousness. This would be the apostles and disciples of Christ, taking the Gospel to the end of the earth in those days. After the rapture, we have no doubt that they brightened up heaven in no small measure. Daniel 12:4-7
"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." When was the power of the holy people scattered? In the holocaust of AD70. The day of Israel, the holy nation went out, the day of the Gentile came in.

Some of the most earth-shaking events happened 2000 years ago. The rapture of the Jews, the resurrection of the Jews, the Kingdom of God set up, Satan cast out of heaven, the end of Israel and the Jewish system, and salvation to all who accept it.
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