UNDERSTANDING THE LEAD-UP TO JESUS’ RETURN——
LEADING TO THE END OF THIS AGE AND THE NEW AGE TO COME!
by Keith Hunt
MANY YEARS AGO——
I ASKED THE LORD WHAT SHOULD I WRITE ABOUT;
I OPENED MY BIBLE AND IT OPENED TO MARK 13!
JESUS LEAVES THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM, HIS DISCIPLES SAY, "MASTER LOOK AT ALL THESE STONES AND BUILDINGS" - PLURAL.
JESUS REPLIES, "YOU SEE THESE GREAT BUILDINGS, WELL THERE SHALL NOT BE ONE STONE LEFT ON ANOTHER, ALL WILL BE THROWN DOWN."
AS JESUS SAT ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, PETER, JAMES, JOHN, AND ANDREW, ASKED HIM “WHEN SHALL IT BE, WHEN ALL THESE THINGS WILL COME TO BE FULFILLED.
IN MATTHEW’S ACCOUNT THEY ASKED HIM FOR THE SIGNS OF HIS RETURN.
JESUS GIVES SOME SIGNS OF FALSE PROPHETS, WHO WOULD INDEED CLAIM JESUS IS THE CHRIST, BUT WILL DECEIVE MANY. NOTE, MANY NOT THE FEW, BUT MANY.
THERE WILL BE WARS, NATIONS RISING AGAINST NATIONS, THERE WILL BE EARTHQUAKES, THERE WILL BE FAMINES....JUST THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS [verses 2-8].
THESE THINGS HAVE BEEN GOING ON FOR CENTURIES, BUT CERTAINLY IN THE LAST 50 YEARS, ALL THESE THINGS HAVE INCREASED; ESPECIALLY THE "CHRISTIAN RELIGION" - BROADCASTED ON FIRST RADIO, THEN ON TV AND THE INTERNET, LIKE AS NEVER BEFORE IN THE LAST 2,000 YEARS. THERE ARE TV CHANNELS DEVOTED TO 24 HOUR CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS PROGRAMS. MANY, INDEED MANY AND MANY, HAVE IN THE LAST 50 YEARS BEEN PROCLAIMING CHRIST IS THE CHRIST. JESUS SAID IT WOULD BE SO, AND THEY, THE MANY HAVE DECEIVED THE MANY!!
TAKE A LOOK AT ALL THE “CHRISTIAN” DENOMINATIONS! THEY CAN’T ALL BE CORRECT, FOR THEY CONTRADICT EACH OTHER ! SO INDEED THERE IS MUCH, MUCH FALSE TEACHING, BY THE MANY! JESUS CALLED HIS DISCIPLES THE “LITTLE FLOCK”—— AND IN THE GREEK THAT IS A DOUBLE DIMINUTIVE—— LITTLE LITTLE FLOCK, OR VERY LITTLE FLOCK! BUT JESUS ALSO SAID HE WOULD BUILD HIS CHURCH AND THE GATES OF DEATH WOULD NOT PREVAIL OVER IT.
VERSES 9-13 SPEAKS OF A LITERAL PERSECUTION; TRUE SAINTS BEING BROUGHT BEFORE RULERS AND KINGS, PEOPLE IN SECULAR AUTHORITY; EVEN FAMILY MEMBERS BETRAYING ONE ANOTHER; PEOPLE HATING CHRIST'S DISCIPLES FOR HIS NAME'S SAKE. AND AT THE SAME TIME THE GOSPEL GOING TO THE NATIONS - PLURAL - OF THE WORLD.
THIS MUST BE [AND THE REST OF THE COMING VERSES PROVE IT] AT THE CLOSE OF THIS AGE, FOR AGAIN IN THE LAST 30 YEARS VIA TV, THE INTERNET, PRINTED MATTER, THE GOSPEL IS GOING TO ALL NATIONS OF THE WORLD AS NEVER BEFORE IN HUMAN HISTORY. AS AN EXAMPLE, MY WEBSITE GOES TO MOST NATIONS OF THE WORLD, AND AS THE YEARS COME, MORE AND MORE NATIONS, AS MORE NATIONS HAVE THE MODERN INTERNET ON MANY HIGH TECH DEVICES, THE GOSPEL ON MY WEBSITE WILL GO TO ALL NATIONS. THIS IS A PROPHECY FOR THE VERY END TIMES [A CERTAIN LENGTH OF TIME, WHICH WE HAVE ENTERED BUT DO NOT KNOW ITS FULL LENGTH].
YOU WILL NOTICE.... A PERSECUTION OF CHRIST'S TRUE PEOPLE! NO TALK HERE OF A SECRET COMING OF CHRIST, AN INVISIBLE COMING, AN ANY SECOND COMING, TO TAKE THE SAINTS TO HEAVEN, IN THE IDEA OF A "SECRET “ RAPTURE. AND THAT TEACHING I BLOW TO A MILLION BITS OF DUST IN OTHER STUDIES ON MY WEBSITE. IT IS ONE OF THE DECEPTIONS OF THE MANY FALSE PROPHETS.
VERSE 14 - A KEY VERSE. THE "ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION," SPOKEN BY DANIEL THE PROPHET, STANDING WHERE IT OUGHT NOT; THOSE IN JUDEA HAD THEN BETTER FLEE TO THE MOUNTAINS. DANIEL SPEAKS OF THIS IN HIS CHAPTER 12:11 - AN ABOMINATION THAT "MAKES DESOLATE."
I HAVE FULLY EXPLAINED DANIEL 12 IN OTHER STUDIES ON MY WEBSITE.
THE BIBLE INTERPRETS ITSELF. LUKE 21, CONCERNING THIS SAME PROPHECY OF MARK 13, GIVES YOU THE ANSWER OF WHAT IS THE ABOMINATION THAT MAKES DESOLATE - IT'S FOUND IN VERSE 20. WHEN JERUSALEM IS SURROUNDED BY ARMIES, THEN THE DESOLATION THEREOF IS NIGH - JERUSALEM WILL BE DESTROYED, ENOUGH THAT ALL THE STONES OF THE TEMPLE WILL BE CAST TO THE GROUND. THIS DID NOT HAPPEN IN 70 A.D. WHEN THE ROMAN ARMIES DESTROYED JERUSALEM; FOR THE WAILING WALL, IN JERUSALEM WAS PART OF THE TEMPLE OF JESUS' DAY.
NOW SOME WILL SAY THE WAILING WALL WAS NOT A PART OF THE TEMPLE, AND IT WAS PART OF THE RETAINING WALL OF THE TEMPLE AREA. WELL JESUS TELLS US WHAT HE CONSIDERED TO BE THE TEMPLE—— SEE MARK 11: 15-17. A BIBLE ENCYCLOPEDIA WILL SHOW YOU THE SECTIONS OF THE OVERALL TEMPLE. WITHIN THE FIRST ENTRY YOU HAD THE COURT AREA WHERE THE ANIMALS WERE SOLD ETC. FOR SACRIFICE. THIS IS WHERE JESUS CAST THEM OUT—— AND HE SAID AND REFERRED TO IT AS “THE TEMPLE.” GOD SANCTIONED IT ALL AS THE TEMPLE. THE WAILING WALL TODAY WAS INDEED PART OF THE TEMPLE OF JESUS’ DAY.
THIS WAILING WALL WILL COME DOWN IN THE FUTURE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, AND THAT PART OF JESUS' PROPHECY WILL BE FULFILLED, SHORTLY BEFORE HE RETURNS, AS HE GOES ON TO EXPLAIN, AND GIVES MORE SIGNS TO LOOK FOR JUST AHEAD OF HIS RETURN.
PEOPLE IN THE HOLY LAND, IN JERUSALEM, ARE TO FLEE, NOT EVEN RETURNING TO THE HOUSE IF OUTSIDE, TO GATHER ANYTHING TOGETHER. AND PROVING THIS IS AT THE VERY END TIME, SHORTLY BEFORE CHRIST RETURNS, IS PROVEN BY VERSE 19. IT IS THE TIME OF AFFLICTION SUCH AS WAS NOT FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION, GENESIS ONE, AND SHALL NEVER BE AGAIN. WE HAVE YET TO ENTER THAT TIME, FOR AS WE SHALL SEE, AFTER SOME OTHER SIGNS JESUS WILL RETURN.
GOD WILL SHORTEN THOSE DAYS OF AFFLICTION FOR IF HE DID NOT, NO FLESH WOULD BE SAVED. AND DURING THAT TIME MORE FALSE PROPHETS WILL ARISE, SOME DOING MIRACLES, WONDERS , SIGNS, TO DECEIVE MANY, YES NOT THE FEW BUT THE MANY!
VERSES 24, 25. THERE WILL BE HEAVENLY SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON, IN THE STARS; THE SUN DARKENED, THE MOON NOT GIVING HER LIGHT; THE STARS FALLING, THE POWERS OF HEAVEN SHAKEN.
NOTICE WHEN...... VERSE 24...... AFTER THAT TRIBULATION. NOTHING COULD BE CLEARER. THE BIBLE IS SIMPLE TO UNDERSTAND IF YOU WILL READ IT AS A CHILD. I WAS READING THESE VERSES AS A CHILD OF 12, 13, 14 ETC. AND IT WAS EASY TO UNDERSTAND.
YOU HAVE A PERSECUTION OF TRUE SAINTS, A TIME OF TROUBLE AS LIKE NEVER IN ALL OF EARTH'S HISTORY. AFTER THAT TRIBULATION YOU HAVE HEAVENLY SIGNS, UNMISTAKABLE IN SCOPE, MIGHT, AND POWER.
THEN NOTICE IT....VERSE 26!!!
"AND THEN SHALL THEY SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING IN THE CLOUDS WITH GREAT POWER AND GLORY!!!"
IT IS A VISIBLE RETURN OF CHRIST; IT IS THE ONE AND ONLY ONE RETURN OF CHRIST; NO TWO-FOLD RETURN; NO ONE COMING IN SECRET AT ANY SECOND AND ANOTHER ONE LATER THAT IS VISIBLE. IT IS ONE RETURN OF CHRIST ONLY, TO BE SEEN, IN POWER AND GLORY !!!
AND WHAT HAPPENS?
VERSE 27 - THE ANGELS ARE SENT TO GATHER THE ELECT FROM THE FOUR WINDS, FROM THE UTTERMOST PARTS OF THE EARTH AND HEAVEN!!!
HOW SIMPLE IS GOD'S WORD! IT IS A ONE, TWO, THREE, TEACHING. EASY TO READ AND UNDERSTAND.
JESUS GOES ON TO SAY THESE ARE THE SIGNS TO WATCH FOR, WHEN PROPHECY WILL COME UPON JERUSALEM; WHEN SAINTS WILL BE PERSECUTED; THEN A TIME OF AFFLICTION WILL COME THAT HAS NEVER BEEN THE LIKE BEFORE, AND NEVER WILL BE AGAIN; WHEN AFTER THAT, THERE WILL BE HEAVENLY SIGNS EASY TO SEE. AND THEN AFTER ALL THAT JESUS WILL RETURN, TO BE SEEN. THEN THE GATHERING OF THE ELECT.
WHEN YOU SEE THESE ONE, TWO, THREE, SIGNS, KNOW THAT JESUS' COMING IS NIGH, EVEN AT THE DOOR.
JESUS FINISHED BY SAYING, NO ONE, NOT THE ANGELS, NOT EVEN CHRIST, BUT ONLY THE FATHER KNOWS THE VERY DAY OF CHRIST'S RETURN.
WE ARE TO BE READY, BE WATCHING, LOOKING FOR THE SIGNS.
AT THE PRESENT WE ARE NO FURTHER ALONG IN THIS PROPHECY THAN VERSE 8.
NOW, YOU MAY LIKE TO ALSO READ MATTHEW'S ACCOUNT [CHAPTER 24] AND LUKE'S ACCOUNT [CHAPTER 21] OF THIS SAME PROPHECY.
OTHER BOOKS IN THE BIBLE EXPAND, AMPLIFY, GO INTO DETAIL ABOUT END TIME PROPHECY; BUT MATTHEW 24, MARK 13, LUKE 21, GIVE IT ALL IN SIMPLE OUTLINE FORM, SO EVEN A CHILD CAN UNDERSTAND.
AND JESUS SAID UNLESS YOU BECOME AS A CHILD [IN BIBLE READING AND FAITH] YOU CAN NOT ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD. FORGET ABOUT THE PhD PEOPLE OF THEOLOGY, THEY ARE IN THE MAIN BLIND LEADERS OF THE BLIND.
BE A CHILD IN MIND ATTITUDE, AND YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THE SINGS OF THE END TIMES, AND THE GLORIOUS COMING OF CHRIST JESUS TO ESTABLISH THE KINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH.
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