Sunday, April 21, 2013

End Times Chronology....debunked #14


From  the  book  "End Times in Chronological Order"

by Ron Rhodes


After the Tribulation, Before the Millennial Kingdom
IN THIS CHAPTER

A 75-Day Transitional Period
The Judgment of the Nations
The Judgment of the Jews
The Marriage Supper of the Lamb
A 75-Day Transitional Period

A 75-day interval apparendy separates the end of the tribulation period from the beginning of the millennial kingdom. During this brief interim, a number of significant events transpire.

(NOTICE  THE  WORD "APPARENTLY"  -  THE  AUTHOR  GIVES  NO  SCRIPTURAL  BASIS  FOR  PUTTING  THE  75  DAYS  IN  THIS  PALCE.  HE  ALSO  KNOWS  THAT  MOST  OF  HIS  READERS  WILL  JUST  ACCEPT  HIS  WORD.....I  MEAN  HE  HAS  HIS  PhD  AFTER  ALL....SO  HE  HAS  TO  BE  RIGHT....RIGHT?  
I  WILL  ANSWER  EACH  OF  HIS  IDEAS  AND  THEN  GIVE  YOU  THE  BIBLE  INTERPRETATION  WHERE  THE  75  DAYS  GO  -  Keith Hunt)

For example, the image of the antichrist that had caused the abomination of desolation at the midpoint of the tribulation will be removed from the temple after 30 days. "From the time that the regular burnt offering is taken away and the abomination that makes desolate is set up, there shall be 1,290 days5 (Daniel 12:11). The last half of the tribulation lasts only 1260 days (or three and a half years), so the abomination that makes desolate is removed from the Jewish temple 30 days after the tribulation ends.

(FIRST:  THERE  IS  NO  7  YEARS,  SO  THERE  IS  NO  DIVIDING  IT  INTO  TWO  HALVES.  THERE  IS  ONLY  42  MONTHS,  OR  1260  FOR  THE  TRIBULATION  AND  THE  DAY  OF  THE  LORD. 
SECOND: IN  INVENTION  OF  A  PHYSICAL  TEMPLE  AND  SACRIFICES  DONE  AND  THEN  STOPPED  IS  MAN  MADE.  WHAT  DANIEL  RECORDS  IS  THIS  FROM  THE  HEBREW: "And  from  the  time  the  daily  shall  be  taken  away,  and  the abomination  that  makes  desolate  set  up a  thousand  two  hundred  and  ninety  days." See  the  KJV  Bible.
I  HAVE  COVERED  THIS  "DAILY"  AND  "ABOMINATION  THAT  MAKES  DESOLATE"  ON  IN-DEPTH  STUDIES  UNDER  "PROPHECY"  ON  MY  WEBSITE.  BRIEFLY  LUKE  GIVES  US  THE  INTERPRETATION  OF  MATTHEW  24:15,  AND  DANIEL,  IN  LUKE 21:20, 21 AND  ON  INTO  22-24.
FROM  THE  TIME  WE  HAVE  JERUSALEM  DESOLATE  WILL  BE  1290  DAYS,  ONE  MONTH  LONGER  THAN  1260  DAYS  OF  REVELATION -
Keith Hunt)

An additional 45 days must also be added into the prophetic timetable: "Blessed is he who waits and arrives at the 1,335 days" (verse 12 ). The 1335 days minus the 1290 days means another 45 days are added into the mix. Apparently, this is when the judgment of the nations takes place (Matthew 25:31-46). The Jewish survivors of the Tribulation period will also be judged.

(NOTICE  AGAIN "APPARENTLY"  -  JUST  AIN'T  SURE  AT  ALL  THAT  THIS  IS  SO,  MAKING  IT  UP  AS  HE  GOES  ALONG  -  Keith Hunt)

Other key events probably take place during this interval. Here are six.

(WOOOOOPS  -  DID  YOU  SEE IT?  "PROBABLY"  TAKE  PLACE  -  JUST  AIN'T  SURE  -  Keith Hunt)

1. The antichrist and the false prophet will be cast into the lake of fire. "The beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur"
(Revelation 19:20).
It is interesting to observe that the great white throne judgment, in which wicked human beings are judged and then cast into the lake of fire, does not occur until after the millennial kingdom. This means that for a full 1000 years, the antichrist and the false prophet will be the only inhabitants of the lake of fire. They will have plenty of time to ponder the futility of their efforts.

(SO  WE  SEE  HE'S  ALREADY  MADE  HIS  MIND  UP  ABOUT  THE  "GREAT  WHILTE  THRONE  JUDGMENT"  AS  TO  WHAT  IT  IS,  WHICH  IS  INCORRECT  BY  THE  WAY;  AND  WE  HAVE  THE  IMMORTAL  SOUL  BEING  TAUGHT,  AS  THE  TWO  PHYSICAL  MEN  THROWN  INTO  THE  FIRE  WILL  HAVE LOSTS  OF  TIME  TO  "PONDER"  THE  FUTILITY  OF  THEIR  EFFORTS.  YOU  NEED  TO  STUDY  THE  STUDIES  ON  MY  WEBSITE  CALLED  "DEATH  -  THEN  WHAT?"  IT  IS  AT  CHRIST'S  COMING [CONTEXT] THE  TWO  DECEIVERS  WILL  BE  CAST  INTO  THE  FIRE,  THAT  ONLY  TAKES  SECONDS  NOT  DAYS  -  Keith Hunt)

2. Satan will also be bound from this point till the very end of the millennial kingdom.

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer (Revelation 20:1-3).

(TRUE.....BUT  THAT  ONLY  TAKES  SECONDS  ALSO...NOT  DAYS  -  Keith Hunt)

3. Old Testament saints will be resurrected from the dead. "Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead" (Isaiah 26:19). "Many of those who sleep in the dust
of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt" (Daniel 12:2).

(TRUE  ALSO.....AT  THE  LAST  TRUMP,  THE  7TH  TRUMPET  OF  REVELATION,  CHRIST  COMES  IN  THE  ONLY  ONE  COMING  GIVEN  IN  THE  BIBLE,  AND  THE  RESURRECTION  OF  SAINTS  AND  INSTANT  CHANGE  TO  IMMORTALITY  FOR  ALL SAINTS  TAKES  PLACE  -  1  COR.  15  AND  1  THES. 4.   TAKES  ONLY  SECONDS....NOT  DAYS  -  Keith Hunt)

4. Finally, tribulation saints who had died are resurrected from the dead. "I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years" (Revelation 20:4).
(SAME  EVENT.....THE  RESURRECTION OF  SAINTS....ONLY  SECONDS,  NOT  DAYS  -  Keith Hunt)

5. Renald Showers suggest that the governmental structure of the coming millennial kingdom will be set up during these extra 45 days. Scripture reveals that the saints will reign with Christ in the millennial kingdom (2 Timothy 2:12; Revelation 20:4-6). Showers notes,
"After the saints and unbelievers have been separated and the unbelievers are removed in judgment, it will take time to appoint saints to different government positions and inform them of their various responsibilities."1

(TIME  WITH  GOD  IS  NOT  AS  TIME  WITH  US.  AND  ISREAL  MUST  BE  GATHERED  FROM  THE  NATIONS  AND  RETURNED  TO  THE  HOLY  LAND  -  ISAIAH  11.  THE  SAINTS  WILL  NOT  NEED  45  DAYS  TO  FIGURE  OUT  WHAT  TO  DO.  THE  MIND  OF  GOD  THAT  THE  SAINTS  WILL  HAVE  (1  JOHN  3:1-3)  IS  NOT  AS  THE  MIND  OF  MAN M -  Keith Hunt)


6. It is also entirely feasible that the marriage feast of Christ, the divine Bridegroom, and His bride, the church, will take place at the close of the 75-day period. If so, it will be the highlight of that two-and-a-half-month period. The invitation to the marriage feast was previously mentioned in Revelation 19:9 (which just precedes the second coming): "Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb." It would thus make sense that the marriage feast would take place shortly after.

(YES  VERY  SHORTLY  AFTER,  IN  THE  CLOUDS  AS  WE  MEET  OUR  BRIDEGROOM  CHRIST  JESUS, 1  THES. 4.  AND  AGAIN  TIME  WITH  GOD  IS  NOT  AS  TIME  WITH  HUMANS.  WE  ARE  WITH  AND  "MARRY"  (IN  TYPE)  JESUS  WHEN  WE  MEET  HIM.  THE  JOYOUS  UNION  AND  MARRIAGE  SUPPER  COULD  HARDLY  BE  PUT  OFF  FOR  75  DAYS,  IT  IS  NOT  LOGICAL  -  Keith Hunt)

Following the 75-day interval, Christ will set up His millennial kingdom (Isaiah 2:2-4; Ezekiel 37:1-13; 40-48; Micah 4:1-7; Revelation 20). Before discussing this glorious kingdom, however, lets consider further on the judgment of the nations, the judgment of t details he Jews, and the marriage feast of Jesus the Bridegroom and His bride, the church.

(FOLLOWING  HIS  COMING  FROM  THE  CLOUDS  TO  THE  MOUNT  OF  OLIVES  -  1  THES. 4  WITH  ZECH. 14.....CHRIST'S  KINGDOM HAS  ARRIVED  -  Keith Hunt)

The Judgment of the Nations

Matthew 25:31-46 describes the judgment of the nations, which takes place following the second coming of Christ. The nations are comprised of the sheep and the goats, representing the saved and the lost among the Gentiles. According to Matthew 25:32, they are intermingled and require separation by a special judgment.
Some interpreters have argued that this judgment is the same as the great white throne judgment in Revelation 20:11-13, a judgment that takes place at the end of the millennial kingdom. However, a comparison of the judgment in Matthew with the one in Revelation makes this view impossible.
(IT  IS  NOT  THE  SAME  -  Keith Hunt)
Clearly, a plain reading of the text indicates that these judgments are not the same. The judgment of the nations deals with the Gentile nations and takes place following the second coming of Christ.
(NOT  GENTILE  NATIONS  AT  ALL  PER  SE  -  IT  SAYS  ALL  NATIONS  -  Keith Hunt)

Relation to Buying and Setting

During the tribulation period, people will not be able to buy or sell if they don't receive the mark of the beast (Revelation 13:16-17). Christians will need to act sacrificially toward those who are less fortunate.

When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on his right, "Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me." Then the righteous will answer him, saying, "Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?" And the King will answer them, "Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me."
Then he will say to those on his left, "Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me." Then they also will answer, saying, "Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?" Then he will answer them, saying, "Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me." And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life (Matthew 25:31-46).

(NOTICE  THE  JUDGMENT  IS  AFTER  CHRIST  SITS  ON  HIS  THRONE  -  AS  PROMISED  AND  TOLD  TO  MARY  BY  THE  ANGEL,  IT  WILL  BE  DAVID'S  THRONE  - Keith Hunt)

Notice the basis of the judgment of these Gentile peoples. Ones destiny—entering Christ's kingdom or entering into punishment— hinges on how one treated Christ's brothers.

Who are these brothers? A comparison of this passage with the details of the tribulation recorded in Revelation 4-19 suggests the possibility that the term brothers may be referring to the 144,000 Jews mentioned in Revelation 7, Christ's Jewish brothers who bear witness of Him during the tribulation. Bible expositor Stan Toussaint, one of my former professors at Dallas Theological Seminary, notes, "It seems best to say that 'brothers of Mine' is a designation of the godly remnant of Israel that will proclaim the gospel of the kingdom unto every nation of the world."2 Bible expositor Merrill F. Unger agrees.
During the tribulation period, God will sovereignly call and save 144,000 Jews....So glorious and wonderful will be the ministry of the 144,000 saved Jews and so faithful will be their powerful testimony, the King on His throne of glory will not be ashamed to call them "My brothers." More than that, He will consider Himself so intimately united to them that what was done or not done to them is the same as being actually done or not done to Himself.3

(FIRST:  THEY  ARE  NOT  144,000  "JEWS"  -  THEY  ARE  12  TRIBES  OF  ISRAEL,  THE  JEWS  AS  WE  KNOW  OF  THEM  TODAY  ARE  ONLY  3 TRIBES [JUDAH, BENJAMIN, AND  LEVI.
SECOND: MATTHEW  25  HAS  NOTHING  TO  DO  WITH  ANY  ISRAELITES  BEFORE  JESUS  RETURNS.  IT  CLEARLY  STATES  CHRIST  HAS  COME  AND  SITS  ON  HIS  THRONE,  AND  ALL NATIONS  ARE  BEFORE  HIM  -  Keith Hunt)

Bible expositor J. Dwight Pentecost likewise notes that the 144,000 Jews...
will be under a death sentence by the beast. They will refuse to carry the beast's mark, and so they will not be able to buy and sell. Consequendy, they will have to depend on those to whom they minister for hospitality, food, and support. Only those who receive the message will jeopardize their lives by extending hospitality to the messengers. Therefore what is done for them will be an evidence of their faith in Christ, that is, what is done for them will be done for Christ.84

(ALL  JUST  HUMAN  REASONING.  THEY  WILL  NOT  BE  144,000  OF  JEWS.....HOW  PLAINER  CAN  GOD  GET,  HE  SAYS  12,000  FROM  12  TRIBES  OF  ISRAEL  AND  EVEN  NAMES  THEM.  JEWS  ARE  FROM  JUDAH,  AND  AFTER  SOLOMON,  IT  WAS  3  TRIBES  -  JUDAH,  BENJAMIN,  LEVI,  THAT  MADE  UP  THE  HOUSE OF  JUDAH.  THE  144,000  WILL  BE  PROTECTED  BY  GOD  AND  IT  DOES  NOT  SAY  IN  ANY  SPECIFICS  HOW,  BUT  THEY  WILL  BE.  ADDING  TO  THAT  IS  ONLY  TO  TRY  AND  MAKE  YOUR PROPHETIC  SCENARIO  FIT  YOUR  PROPHETIC  IDEAS  -  Keith Hunt)

The Bible Knowledge Commentary provides this summary.

The expression "these brothers" must refer to a third group that is neither sheep nor goats. The only possible group would be Jews, physical brothers of the Lord. In view of the distress in the Tribulation period, it is clear that any believing Jew will have a difficult time surviving (c£ 24:15-21). The forces of the world dictator will be doing everything possible to exterminate all Jews (cf. Rev. 12:17). A Gentile going out of his way to assist a Jew in the Tribulation will mean that Gentile has become a believer in Jesus Christ during the Tribulation. By such a stand and action, a believing Gentile will put his life in jeopardy. His works will not save him; but his works will reveal that he is redeemed.5

(ALL  JUST  NONSENSE  AND  GUESS  WORK  AND  INVENTIONS  OF  IDEAS.  MATTHEW  25  IS  TALKING  ABOUT  PEOPLES  OF  NATIONS  AFTER  CHRIST  HAS  COME  AND  SITS  ON  HIS  THRONE,  AND  HENCE  NATIONS  OF  PEOPLE  WILL  BE  JUDGED  BY  HOW  THEY  LIVE.  IF  CONVERTED  AND  WITH  GOD'S  SPIRIT,  YOU  WILL  BE  A  SHEEP,  AND  LIVE  TOWARDS  OTHERS  AS  A  CHILD  OF  GOD  SHOULD  LIVE,  IF  YOU  ARE  A  GOAT,  YOU  ARE  NOT  LIVING  ACCORDING  TO  GOD'S  WAY  OF  LIFE.  THAT  IS  THE  BASIC  TEACHING  JESUS  WANTS  TO  GET  ACROSS  TO  READERS.  TRYING  TO  BREAK  UP  THE  PARABLE  INTO  PROPHETIC  COMPARTMENTS  IS  MISSING  THE  WHOLE  POINT  OF  THE  PARABLE.  A  CHRISTIAN  LIVES A  CERTAIN  WAY,  A  NONE  CHRISTIAN  LIVES  A  CERTAIN  WAY.....IF  YOU  WANT  INTO  THE  KINGDOM  OF  GOD,  YOU  NEED  TO  LIVE  ACCORDING  TO  GOD'S  WAY  OF  LIVING.  SO  IT  IS  EVEN  FOR  US  TODAY,  AND  SO  IT  WILL  BE  FOR  THE  PEOPLES  OF  NATIONS  AFTER  JESUS  RETURNS  -  Keith Hunt)

Here, then, is the main point: The antichrist and the false prophet will wield economical control over the world during the tribulation period (Revelation 13), but God will still be at work. His redeemed will come to the aid of Christ's Jewish brethren as they bear witness to Christ all around the world. These will be invited into Christ's millennial kingdom.

(IT  HAS  NOTHING  TO  DO  WITH  THAT  AT  ALL.  IT  IS  A  PARABLE  OF  LIVING  CORRECTLY  AS  CHRISTIANS  SHOULD  TOWARDS  ALL  OTHER  PEOPLE,  OR  NOT  LIVING  AS  GOD  WANT  YOU  TO  LIVE  TOWARDS  OTHERS.  PART  OF  BEING  A  SHEEP  OF  CHRIST  IS  LIVING  CORRECTLY  TOWARDS  OTHERS,  IF  YOU  DO  NOT  YOU  ARE  A  GOAT,  AND  WILL  NOT  INHERIT  ETERNAL  LIFE.  IT  IS  TRUE  FOR  US  TODAY,  AS  IT  WILL  BE  FOR  ALL  PEOPLES  OF  ALL  NATIONS  IN  THE AGE  TO  COME  -  Keith Hunt)

These saved Gentiles are not yet given resurrection bodies. They will enter the kingdom in their mortal bodies and continue to have babies throughout the millennium (just as their Jewish counterparts will—see next chapter). Though longevity will characterize the millennial kingdom, both mortal Jews and Gentiles will continue to age and die (see Isaiah 65:20). They will be resurrected at the end of the millennium (Revelation 20:4-5). (More on this later in the book)

(THE  BIBLE  DOES  NOT  SAY  WHEN  THE  SAINTS IN  THE  MILLENNIUM  WILL  BE  RESURRECTED  TO  IMMORTAL  LIFE.  WE  MUST  WAIT  TO  FIND  THAT  ANSWER  WHEN  JESUS  RETURNS  -  Keith Hunt)

The Judgment of the Jews

The judgment of the Jews is described in Ezekiel 20:34-38 (see also Matthew 25:1-30).

(MATTHEW  25:1-30  HAS  NOTHING  IN  ANY  SPECIFIC  WAY  TO  DO  WITH  JEWS  PER  SE.  THE  WORD  "JEWS"  CANNOT  BE  FOUND  IN  IT.  THAT  IS  READING  SOMETHING  INTO  THE  PASSAGE  THAT  IS  JUST  NOT  THERE.  BUT  PEOPLE  WILL  READ  INTO  PASSAGES  IT  SEEMS  ANYTHING  TO  HOLD  TO  THEIR  PROPHETIC  IDEAS  -  Keith Hunt)

I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you are scattered, with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out. And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face. As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land ofEgypt, so I will enter into judgmentwith you, declares the Lord God. I will make you pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant. I will purge out the rebels from amongyou, and those who transgress against me. I will bring them out of the land where they sojourn, but they shall not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

(THIS  PASSAGE  IN  EZEKIEL  20:34-38  IS  ABOUT  GOD  BRINGING  ISRAEL (ALL  13  TRIBES  -  JOSEPH  WAS  TWO  TRIBES)  OUT  FROM  THE  NATIONS  AT  CHRIST'S  RETURN,  BRINGING  THEM  THROUGH  THE  WILDERNESS  SO  TO  SPEAK  AS  THEY  COMES  THROUGH  THE  NATIONS  THEY  ARE  SCATTERED  IN,  AND  ARE  BROUGHT  BACK  TO  THE  HOLY  LAND.  IT  IS  AGAIN  ISAIAH  11.  THEY  WILL  COME  BACK  IN  A  HUMBLE  AND  REPENTANT  ATTITUDE  OF  MIND.  THEY  WILL  HAVE  BEEN  PUNISHED [THE  ROD] AND  NOW  THEY  WILL  ENTER  THE  NEW  COVENANT  MIND-SET,  AS  THEY  ARE  RE-ESTABLISHED  IN  THE  HOLY  LAND  -  Keith Hunt)

Here are four important facts about this judgment.

It will take place after the Lord has gathered the Israelites from all around the earth to Palestine.
Christ will purge out the rebels—those who have refused to turn to Him for salvation.
Believers from among this group will enter into Christ's millennial kingdom, where they will then enjoy the blessings of the new covenant (verse 37; see also Jeremiah 31:31).

(YES  THAT  IS  JUST  WHAT  I  HAVE  SAID  -  Keith Hunt)

These saved Jews are not yet given resurrection bodies. 

(THEY  ARE  NOT  JUST  JEWS - THEY  ARE  ALL  ISRAELITES,  FROM  ALL  TRIBES  OF  ISRAEL;  BUT  THE  PROTESTANT  PROPHETS  ARE  HUNG  UP  ON  "JEWS"  BEING  ALL  ISRAEL,  WHEN  THEY  ARE  NOT  -  Keith Hunt)

They will enter the kingdom in their mortal bodies and continue to have babies throughout the millennium (just as their Gentile counterparts will). Though longevity will characterize the millennial kingdom, both mortal Jews and Gentiles will continue to age and die (Isaiah 65:20). They will be resurrected at the end of the millennium (Revelation 20:4). (More on this later in the book.)

(THERE  WILL  INDEED  BE  PHYSICAL  ISRAELITES  AND  GENTILES  IN  THE  AGE  TO  COME,  GOING  INTO  THE  1,000  YEAR  AGE  AS  PHYSICAL  HUMAN  BEINGS.  THOSE  THAT  WILL  BE  CONVERTED  WILL  ENDTER  THE  NEW  COVENANT  AS  WE  TODAY  DO.  THEY  WILL  LIVE  LONG  AND  YES  DIE.  WHEN  THEY  WILL  ENTER  GOD'S  KINGDOM  IS  NOT  TOLD  US.  WE  SHALL  KNOW  WHEN  CHRIST  COMES  TO  ANSWER  THAT  QUESTION  FOR  US  -  Keith Hunt)

The Marriage Supper of the Lamb

Earlier in the book, I noted that Scripture describes the relationship between Christ and the church as a marriage. Christ is the Bridegroom, and the church is the bride. Jesus Christ, the Lamb, frequendy referred to Himself as a Bridegroom (see Matthew 9:15; 22:2-14; 25:1-13; Mark 2:19-20; Luke 5:34-35; 14:15-24; John 3:29). The church is regarded as a virgin bride awaiting the coming of her heavenly Bridegroom (2 Corinthians 11:2). While she waits, she keeps herself pure, unstained from the world.

Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready; it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure—for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.
And the angel said to me, "Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb." And he said to me, "These are the true words of God" (Revelation 19:7-9).

As we saw in chapters 3 and 5, Hebrew weddings included three, phases: The bride became betrothed to the bridegroom, the bridegroom came to claim his bride, and the marriage supper was celebrated—a feast lasting up to a week. All three of these phases are seen in Christ's relationship to the church, the bride of Christ.

First, as individuals living during the church age come to salvation, they become a part of the church, the bride of Christ, betrothed to the divine Bridegroom.

Second, the Bridegroom (Jesus Christ) comes to claim His bride at the rapture, at which time He takes the bride to heaven, the Fathers house, where He has prepared a place to live (John 14:1-3). The actual marriage takes place in heaven, sometime after the church has been raptured, prior to the second coming (Revelation 19:11-16). The bride is dressed beautifully in fine linen (verses 8,14).

(ALL  THE  LAST  PARAGRAPH  IS  WRONG!  THERE  IS  NO  SECRET  RAPTURE!  THERE  IS  NO  GOING  TO  HEAVEN  SECRETLY  FOR  7  YEARS.  WHEN  THE  WEDDING  OF  JEWS  WAS  READY,  THE  BRIDEGROOM  CAME  AND  THERE  WAS  THE MARRIAGE  FEAST,  SIMPLE  AS  THAT.  THE  BRIDE  THEN  LIVED  WITH  THE  BRIDEGROOM.  JESUS  DOES  NOT  COME  IN  SOME  FANCY  IMAGINED  TWO  PHASE  COMING.  HE  COMES  ONLY  ONCE  IN  GLORY  -  VISIBLE  TO  ALL  NATIONS  -  TO  THE  CLOUDS  AND  AIR  OF  THIS  EARTH [1  THES. 4],  AT  THE  LAST  TRUMP [1  COR. 15;  REV.  11:15-19]  AND  THE  RESURRECTION/INSTANT CHANGE  OF  SAINTS  TAKES  PLACE.  THEY  ARE  GUIDED  BY  ANGELS  TO  CHRIST [MAT.24: 30-31]  -  TO  THE  CLOUDS.  THE  MARRIAGE  OF  THE  BRIDE  AND  THE  BRIDEGROOM  CHRIST  TAKES  PLACE -  THE  MARRIAGE  SUPPER  TAKES  PLACE.  AND  IN  THAT  DAY  OF  CHRIST'S  RETURN  HIS  FEET  STAND  ON  THE  MOUNT  OF  OVIVES  -  ZECH. 14.  WE  ARE  HOME  WITH  JESUS  IN  HIS  KINGDOM,  WHERE  WE  HAVE  OUR  MANSION  OR  DWELLING  HOUSE  FOR  EVER  -  Keith Hunt)

Third, the marriage supper of the Lamb apparendy takes place on earth during the 75-day interval between the end of the tribulation period and the beginning of the millennial kingdom.

(THAT  IDEA  IS  NOWHERE  IN  THE  BIBLE,  BUT  ONLY  IN  THE  MIND  OF  THIS  AUTHOR  AND  OTHERS  LIKE  HIM  - Keith Hunt)

SO  WHAT  ABOUT  THIS  75  DAYS?

HERE  IS  THE  TRUTH  RIGHT  FROM  DANIEL  CHAPTER  12.

Daniel  is  told  to  shut  up  the  words  of  the  prophecy even  to  the  time  of  the  end.  See  verses 4 and 9.

Many  shall  be  purified  and  made  white...tribulation  at  that  time  of  the end,  the  wicked  shall  not  understand [wicked  defined  by  the  Bible  -  Psalm  119: 53 ..... will not  obey  God's  law!  How  about  the  4th  commandment....do  the  Protestants  obey  it?]  but  the  wise  shall  understand  [Bible  definition  see Psalm  111:10]. 

We  then  are  given  the  SUM  TOTAL  OF  DAYS  =  1290  PLUS  45  MORE  =  1335  DAYS!  OR  75  MORE DAYS  THAN  1260  DAYS.

THEN  NOTICE  VERSE  13.  "But  go  you  your  way  TILL  THE  END  BE (end  of  1335  days]:  for  you [Daniel]  shall  REST [in  death]  AND  STAND   in  thy  lot  [BE  RESURRECTED - LIVE  AGAIN]  at  the  end  of  the  days!!

AH,  DO  YOU  SEE  IT?  DANIEL  WILL  REST  IN  DEATH,  UNTIL  THE  END  OF  THE  DAYS.  HE  WILL  STAND  AGAIN  IN  LIFE  WITH  THE  LOT  OF  SAINTS,  AT  THE  END  OF  THE  DAYS.  THE  RESURRECTION  DOES  NOT  TAKE  PLACE  UNTILL AT  THE  END  OF  THE  1335  DAYS.  THE  RESURRECTION  HAPPENS  WHEN  JESUS  RETURNS.  HE  DOES  NOT  RETURN  UNTIL  THE  END  OF  THE  1335  DAYS.

WHAT  HAPPENS  FROM  THE  1260  DAYS  OF  REVELATION  TO  THE  END  OF  1335  DAYS....75  DAYS  MORE   THAN  1260  DAYS,  IS  NOT  TOLD  TO  US  IN  THE  BIBLE.  

THOSE  SAINTS  LIVING  DURING  THAT  PERIOD  WILL  FIND  OUT  WHEN  IT  COMES  TO  PASS.

IT  COULD  ALSO  BE  PUT  HERE  IN  DANIEL  SO  PEOPLE  WILL  NOT  GET  HUNG  UP  ON  1260  DAYS....AND  SET  DATES  FOR  CHRIST'S  COMING.

Keith Hunt

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