I have preached what is written
in this book in a series of messages called “God’s Timetable”. I have no desire to set a date that the Lord
will return. No one knows the day or the
hour when the Son of Man cometh. The Lord
does not speak in generalities, but was specific in saying the DAY or
HOUR. The Bible is full of events that
make it plain that we can know the approximate time of His coming. “…when you see all these things, know that
it is near, even at the doors.” Matthew
24:33.
Isaiah 46: 10, “… Declaring the end from the beginning…” This verse does not say that He knew the end from the beginning, but that He had declared the end from the beginning. Certainly God knows everything from beginning to end, and therefore can declare it if He sees fit.
In the BEGINNING God created the heaven and the earth; He created the earth and all things therein. He started with the FIRST DAY and ended with the SEVENTH DAY. Then He started all over again. Why did He stop at the seventh day? Why did He not stop at eight or ten days, etc.? Because “SEVEN” is the number of completion.
I believe that the Lord, in the seven days of creation, is declaring the way that He will do all His work, and then rest from all His work, which He has made. Psalms 90:3-4 tells us that a thousand years in God’s sight are but as yesterday, etc. II Peter 3: 8, “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as a day.” So both the Old Testament and the New Testament declare the same truth of how the Lord looks at one day when it is past, or one thousand years, when it has passed.
That being so, I will try to show that the seven days of creation represent seven thousand years, and that the scriptures bear this out. If you do not agree, that is fine. The Lord is coming soon, and the things written in this book will make you realize that we are living in the very last time, before His coming. The Lord is not dealing in millions of years, but in thousands, which I will prove by the Bible.
I believe that I will prove that those things that had to happen and are happening, are the very things that the Lord warns us about before His coming. So, if this book makes you aware of the coming of the Lord, and that is very near, I have accomplished my purpose.
Matthew 24:44-46
Alfred M. Gormley, Pastor
Chapter I AN APPOINTED TIME Page…. 4
Chapter II THE BEGINNING AND END OF TIME ..... 11
A. The First Day of Creation
Page…. 12
B. The Second Day of Creation Page…. 13
C. The Third Day of Creation
Page…. 16
D. The Fourth Day of Creation Page…. 17
E. The Fifth Day of Creation
Page…. 23
F. The Sixth Day of Creation
Page…. 23
G. The Seventh Day God Rested Page… 27
H. One Eternal Day Page…. 29
Chapter
III GOD’S WORK WITH MAN Page…. 32
Chapter IV ALL SCRIPTURE IS PROFITABLE Page…. 35
A. The Flood
Page…. 37
B. From Noah to Abraham
Page…. 38
C. From Abraham to Jesus Christ Page…. 42
Chapter V PROPHESY CONCERNING THE JEWS ……45
A. God Turns to the Gentiles Page…. 58
B. Return to the Jews Page…. 62
Chapter
VI SIGNS OF THE TIMES
Page…. 63
A. Standing for Truth Page…. 67
B. We Ought Always to Pray
Page…. 73
C. Perilous Times Page…. 74
D. The Days of Noah Page…. 76
E. The Days of
F. The Rapture and the Antichrist Page…. 79
G. The Great Tribulation Page…. 87
H. The Blessed Hope and the Day of
Christ…….93
I.
The Day of the Antichrist Page…. 95
J. Shadows of Things to Come Page…. 98
Chapter VII CONCLUSION Page…100
Dates
of Importance Page…102
Publications Page…103
GOD'S TIMETABLE
By: Al Gormley
Alfred
Gormley, pastor of
This
message is concerning the second coming of the Lord. I am going to show you through the scriptures
that the Lord could come at any time. I
believe it is very close. We are living
in the last days. When the Lord comes,
the earth as we know it today, will be finished. We need to get our minds on the coming of the
Lord, listen to what the Bible says and pray.
James 5:7-8, “Be patient
therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman
waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it,
until he receive the early and latter rain.
Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.”
Hebrews 10:35-37, “Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.” The word tarry means to delay. Christ has a certain time to come and He will return at that time.
John 14:2-3, “In my Father's
house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I
will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be
also”
In speaking of the time Jesus
ascended back to glory, Acts 1:11, “…Ye men of
Matthew 24:3, “And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be?” This is talking about the destruction of the temple. “And what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?” Verse 27, “For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” He will appear in the air; then will be the consummation of the age, and the great tribulation period. The sun will be darkened; the Lord will come with His angels and gather His elect who have been saved during the tribulation period. The three things that the disciples ask Jesus are: (1) When will the destruction of the temple be? (2) What is the sign of Thy coming? (3) What is the sign of the consummation of the age?
Matthew 24:32-37, “Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh. So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.” Notice that no man knows the day or the hour; but He is saying we can know the time. Verse 37 “But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.”
When Noah was on this earth, did he know the approximate time? Did Noah know there was going to be a flood? Genesis 6:3, “And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.” The Lord invited him into the ark, and after seven days the rains came. Yes, he knew the approximate time.
As it was in the days of
We are told in Matthew 24:40, “…one
shall be taken, and the other left.”
That will occur in the rapture.
Verse 44, “Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as
ye think not the Son of man cometh.”
In such an hour, the Bible does not say year or month, it says
hour. Verse 45, “Who then is a
faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household…” That is why I am, as pastor, trying to lead
the church and reveal the things of God, “to give them meat in due season?” In proper time, that is what due season
means. I am to reveal the second coming
of the Lord in the proper time. Verses
46-47 “Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall
find so doing. Verily I say unto you,
That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.” Noah knew when that day came;
Can we know? I have heard preachers say that the day of
the Lord is going to come as a thief in the night, that we cannot know. They have not correctly interpreted the
scriptures. I Thessalonians 5:1-6, “But
of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto
you. For yourselves know perfectly that
the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, [lost
people are the ones who are going to be caught as thieves in the night] Peace and safety; then sudden
destruction cometh upon them, [lost people] as travail upon a
woman with child; and they shall not escape.”
They shall not escape the coming of the Lord and the tribulation. “But ye, brethren, [saved people]
are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, [God
has given us an understanding] and the children of the day: we are not of
the night, nor of darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep, as do others; but let
us watch and be sober.” The
Bible does not say that Christ’s return will catch God's people as a thief in
the night. He will catch lost people as
a thief in the night, unprepared. But
ye, brethren, are not of the night; ye are children of the day.
My purpose is not to set dates for
Christ‘s return. No man knows the day or
the hour, but the Bible tells us we can know the approximate time. The coming of the Lord is very close. It could be in the next few years, it could
be at any time, and it could be today.
We are living in the very last days.
I am 75 years old; I believe that if I live a few more years, I will never have to die.
God is not running this world by chance; He has a plan. He works all things according to the purpose of His will. Isaiah 46:9 “Remember the former things of old: for I am God, (singular) and there is none else; I am God, (plural noun) and there is none like me.” God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit. Verse 10, “Declaring the end from the beginning…” He did not say I know the end from the beginning, but He said I am declaring the end from the beginning.
God uses His word when speaking to
Acts 15:18, “Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.” He did not say I have known them, Isaiah 46 says, I have declared them from the beginning. If He knows them, He can certainly declare them.
Ephesians 1:11, “In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:” He not only knows all of it, but He is working all things after the counsel of His own will. He has not only purposed and planned, but the scripture says He has a definite time for things to happen. He has declared the end from the beginning.
We will use several illustrations to show that God is working with a timetable. Let’s look at the birth of Jesus Christ. Genesis 3:15, “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed…” He declared the Savior would be born of the seed of a woman.
When would Jesus Christ be born? Could He come at any time? No, God had a time for Him to come. Galatians 4:4-5, “But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.” He came when the fullness of time was come.
The Bible also tells us that there shall be an antichrist that shall come, and he shall rule the world. II Thessalonians 2:4-6, “Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.” What withholds the antichrist is the Holy Spirit working with His people. And when His people are taken out, immediately the antichrist shall reveal himself. God is working with a timetable.
Genesis 17:21, “But my
covenant will I establish with Isaac, [not with Ishmael who was born
of Hagar] which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the
next year.” God told Abraham and
Sarah that Isaac would be born at a set time in the next year, and he would not
be born until God was ready. Galatians
4:28, “Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.” Each one of God's children shall be “born
again” at a set time.
This eliminates “easy believe-ism,” where a person can be lead to the Lord in five minutes. Men will never get people saved until God performs the new birth in their hearts. Our business is to sow the seed, and it is God's business to save.
Jesus Christ began His personal ministry: Mark l:14-15, “Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.” The time is fulfilled.
Solomon said in Ecclesiastes 3:2, “A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.” We do not live a long life because of good health; it is all in God's plan. When God takes our breath, we die. Job 7:l, “Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth?” Hebrews 9:27 answers that. “And as it is appointed unto men once to die…” That is an appointed time. Acts 17:31, God “…hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness…” By what? “That man whom he hath ordained;” verse 25, “…he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things:”
Things do not happen by chance, God
is working with them. We cannot know the
day or the hour; but, by looking at God's appointment book, we can get very
close to the time of the coming of the Lord.
Acts l7:24-26, “God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation.” The word “determined” in the original Greek language means, “to mark out.” He has marked it out; He has “determined the times,”--the “times” in this passage in the Greek means “fixed times.” God has marked out fixed times “before appointed.” In the Greek this simply means “to arrange” or “appointed before hand.” He has marked out fixed times and hath appointed them before hand, “the bounds of their habitation.” God has a plan and a purpose, and He is working according to a fixed time.
God has a timetable; He is working in His time. He existed before time was, He shall cut off time and exist for evermore. He will come and He will not delay His coming. He had a time for this world to begin; He has a time to end.
It is not hard for us to find the beginning of time. Genesis l:l, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” In our study of God's timetable, this is where we shall begin.
Scientists say that the world is
millions of years old. The Discovery
channel on television continually has stories about the earth being millions of
years old. God declares through the
scripture that this world, as we know it today, is less than six thousand years
old. Romans 3:4 “…let God be true,
but every man a liar…”
If you go to an airport and look on the board of any airlines, you will find the schedule of planes arrival and departure times. Sometimes they arrive late and sometimes they depart late. But in God's timetable, everything happens exactly on time. There is no delay in arrival and there is no delay in departure. When Jesus Christ came, He came in the fullness of time. When the antichrist comes, he will come at the appointed time, God’s appointed time. There will be no delay. God hath declared the end from the beginning.
When God created, He had a
timetable. He began on the first day and
ended on the seventh day. After His work
was done, He started over again, one through seven. Cain and Abel came at the appointed time. In the fullness of time, they began to
worship. Genesis 4:3-4, “And in
process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground
an offering unto the LORD. And Abel, he
also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof…”
Our weeks are seven days long. Did you ever ask yourself why our week does not keep on going: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10...? Did you ever ask yourself why we have Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc. and then start over again? Why does it not keep going? Why is it not a ten-day week? Why is it not a four-day week? The reason we have a seven-day week is because God planned it, started it, and is going to finish it. God has a timetable and even our weeks declare it.
Let us study the seven days of creation. God hath declared the end from the beginning. Here is the account of the first day. Genesis 1:1-3, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light…” God created light. There was no sun, no moon, no stars, and yet there was light. He created light and then He, verse 4 “…divided the light from the darkness.” Did you ever wonder why we have a day and a night? It is because God divided the light from the darkness. No wonder Psalms 19:2, says, “Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.” Genesis 1:5, “And God called the light Day…” We say it is getting light outside; it is time to get out of bed. Who named the light? God called the light, day; “…and the darkness he called Night…” When we use the words “day” or “night,” [i.e., “I have to work the night shift.”], just remember the word ‘night’ was given to us by God. Genesis 1:5b “…And the evening and the morning were the first day.” This is why the Jews begin their day at 6:00 p.m. and end it at 6:00 a.m.-- because the evening and the morning were the first day. The scriptures did not say “the morning and the evening” as we do today, but “…the evening and the morning were the first day.”
Verse 6, “And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters,” The firmament is the blue that we see in the sky, that expanse. “...and let it divide the waters from the waters.” When God placed the firmament there, He was declaring the end from the beginning. He said the firmament shall divide the waters from the waters. Verse 7, “And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament:…”
In Genesis chapter 7, God destroyed the earth by water, approximately in the year 1656. Genesis 7:11, “In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day… [He put that down on a timetable] were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.” What happened? God had already divided the waters from the waters. He held them in the heavens until the time when He would destroy the earth and man because of their sins. When the fullness of time was come, God said, “I am going to destroy all living flesh with the waters that I put above the firmament.” God put the waters above the firmament; and, at the time of the flood, He opened the windows of heaven and it all came down and destroyed the earth. He has declared the end from the beginning, just as He declared that the earth would be destroyed by water.
The Bible is very plain--the next time the earth shall be destroyed by fire. Colossians 1:16-17, “For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.” The word “consist” means they are held together. He holds all things together.
II Peter 3:4b, 5, 7, 10, “…all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water…But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men… But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.”
God is going to destroy this earth by fire. The atmosphere is made of atoms...millions of atoms. What is the biggest explosive we have had in the last few years outside of the hydrogen bomb? It is the atomic bomb--it ended World War II. How is an atomic bomb made? The atoms are split. This whole earth and atmospheric heaven is made up of nothing but atoms. God holds those atoms by the word of His power. He holds it all together. When God is finished with this earth and is ready for it to be destroyed by fire, He will split the atoms, causing one huge atomic explosion. The earth shall disintegrate and shall melt with fervent heat. He has declared the end from the beginning. The earth is just waiting for that to happen. God upholds all things by the word of His power, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment of ungodly men. He destroyed it by water the first time--He had it all planned. He is going to destroy it by fire--He has that planned also. Known unto God are all His works.
The Bible talks about the “times” of the Gentiles. He is going to depart from the Jews. Hosea 6:2, “After two days He will revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight” (two days represent 2,000 years). The Bible says the “times” (plural) of the Gentiles. Time = one year; times = two years. The word “times” = 2,000 years. The Gentiles will be here approximately 2,000 years and then God will go back to the Jews. In these last days, God hath spoken to us in His Son.
Now
we will look at the third day of creation.
Genesis 1:9-10, “And God said, Let the waters under the heaven
be gathered together unto one place…” Notice that He is very particular. He said “waters under the heaven.” He didn't say all the waters above
the firmament, but under the heaven, be gathered together unto one
place. He left the waters above the
firmament for the purpose which He intended in the flood. “…Let the waters under the heaven be
gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth….” God named this planet, not man. Anytime you hear the word “earth,” remember
that God gave the name, before man was created.
Adam named the animals; but God gave this earth its name. He also named the water. “…and the gathering together of the waters
called he Seas.” We say “we sailed
the high seas,”--just remember when we hear the word “seas,” God is the one
that named them. “and God saw that it
was good.”
Verses
11-13, “And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass…” God is still working. For six thousand years, God has been working
with people, to redeem His people. And
when He is through with His work it will be finished. The six days are the work of creation. The six thousand years are the work of
redemption. God is taking a people out
of a people for Himself. “…Let
the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree
yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it
was so. And the earth brought forth
grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit,
whose seed was in itself, after his kind:
and God saw that it was good. And
the evening and the morning were the third day.”
The
Fourth Day of Creation
“And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament…” God has again declared the end from the beginning. Verse 14, “And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven, [notice the purpose] to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:” The sun, the moon, and the stars were made to divide the day from the night. They were set in the firmament. Sometimes we miss this little word “signs,” “Let them be for signs…” That was the first purpose that God gave to the sun, the moon, and the stars. They shall be for signs; and, then He says they shall be “…for seasons and for days…” We know about the seasons, we know about the days, we know about the years; but what about the “signs”?
We
find one of those “signs” in Exodus 31:13, “Speak thou also unto the
children of
Could it be that when God finishes
His six thousand years of working with His people that He is going to stop and
look upon His people, and be refreshed for one thousand years? He will take glory in that which He has
created. For one thousand years, He will
be refreshed over the people that He has redeemed. It is a “sign.” The Bible says it is for the children of
Genesis
1:15-16, “And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven
to give light upon the earth; and it was so. And God made two great lights; [the
sun and the moon] the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser
light to rule the night: he made the
stars also.”
The sun and moon came into existence on the fourth day. Jesus Christ appeared after four thousand years and we beheld His glory. Matthew 4:16 “The people which sat in darkness saw great light...” John 8:12 “Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world…” He was in heavenly places, but came to this earth to give light. He came from heaven and fulfilled his earthly purpose, then went back into heaven.
John l:l, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Verses 4-5, “In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.” Jesus Christ was light in the Old Testament but people of the world could not comprehend the truth of God, then the true light was manifest. Jesus Christ revealed himself as God in the flesh and the world still could not comprehend Him.
Everything you can say about the sun can be said about Jesus Christ. The sun is the center of all the planets; Jesus Christ is the head of all things. The sun gives light; Jesus is the light of the world. The sun gives life; it is Jesus Christ who gives life. We could go on... but the sun is a type of Jesus Christ. Yes, there was light, but God had not made himself visible. God manifested himself in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ.
In the Old Testament the Jewish nation had the oracles of God, the sacrifices, but they could not comprehend the truth of Jesus Christ. John 1:11, “He came unto his own, and his own received him not.” John 1:9, “That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.” Jesus Christ was that true light, the light of the world. He is God manifested in the flesh, that He came into this world to save sinners and many still cannot see.
Jesus
Christ, being rejected by the Jews, built His New Testament church. The New Testament church is for the purpose
of manifesting His light upon a world that is in darkness. Ephesians 3:2l, “Unto him be glory
in the church...” That is why
the moon was placed in the heavens on the fourth day. It is a figure and type of the Lord's New
Testament church, which sees the Son when the world cannot and reflects the
light of the Son back down onto the earth.
That is our purpose today. Matthew
5:14, “Ye are the light of the world...”
He sent His Holy Spirit to empower the church. Matthew 28:20, “…lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.” The Holy Spirit is going to be with Christ’s kind of church until this age comes to a close. I Corinthians 3:9, “For we are labourers together with God…” He is still working, isn't He? We are laborers together with God: “Ye are God's husbandry…” a cultivation of the soil. God is using His New Testament church to do His work.
Jesus said, John 9:5, “As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world,” but when I leave, Matthew 5:14, “ye are the light to the world…” Christ ascended to glory and, now the Bible tells us, He cannot be seen by the world, just like the sun when it goes down. Every time the sun sets, the world cannot see it, except as it is reflected by the moon. When men landed on the light side of the moon, they could see the sun when the world could not. When you are saved by the grace of God, you too can see the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, when the world cannot.
Incidentally, the fourth day of creation is when the moon was placed in the heavens also. The moon is a type of the Lord's New Testament church. The Son, Jesus Christ, came into the world and made God visible to man. While you have light, walk in the light, but then Jesus departed. Just as God left the moon in the heavens to give light when the sun goes down, He left the church to give light unto the world in His absence. The moon can see the sun when we cannot see it. Those who have been saved by the grace of God can see the Son, Jesus Christ when the world cannot see Him, because we are in heavenly places.
It is
interesting to hear the New Testament writers speak of the time since Jesus
Christ, as the last days.
We find that four thousand years have passed, that is four days of God's timetable of seven. Jesus Christ rejected the Jews, turned to Jew and Gentile, built His church, empowered His church, came to dwell with His church and He has been with His church ever since.
Spiritually speaking, to be a member
of the Lord's
God's
children are children of light. I
Thessalonians 5:5, “Ye are all the children of light, and the
children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.” Christ came to cause division, to seek
and to save; He is working. Saved people
are the children of light and lost people are children of darkness. Just as the Lord set the sun, moon, and stars
in heavenly places to give light upon the earth, even so, Jesus Christ came
into this world to be the light of the world.
He
declared that I am going to build my church, and she shall give light upon this
earth. He declared also that there are
going to be some stars that are not members of His New Testament Church. They are those saved people of denominational
churches. I believe every star is
representation of people who are in the
Genesis
l:20-21, “And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly
the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in
the open firmament of heaven. And God
created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters
brought forth abundantly, after their kind…” These species produce after their kind. The teaching of the process of evolution is
of the devil. Scientists have absolutely
no evidence to prove this teaching. God
was working. Verse 23, “And
the evening and the morning were the fifth day.”
Verse
24, “And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature
after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his
kind: and it was so.” Did you
ever see a horse cross breed with a cow?
No, because God said “after his kind.” If you want rabbits you must have two
rabbits mate, if you want giraffes, you must have giraffes. You cannot mix the two together. You must have two of a kind. No wonder God told Noah to take two of a
kind, male and female, because no animal will cross breed. No animal is going to produce anything that
is not after its own kind. That is why
the Bible says creature after his kind, cattle and creeping things after his
kind. Verse 25 “…And
God saw that it was good.”
Like always produce like, i.e.,
apples produce apples. There has never been anything that has overstepped this
boundary.
I am trying to prove to you that this earth and mankind has existed for less than six thousand years. God hath declared the end from the beginning. I am showing you all these things that have happened, because it disproves the scientist’s theory of evolution. God dealt two thousand years with all people, then two thousand years with the Jews. Now He has been dealing with the Lord's New Testament church almost two thousand years. That is why the sun and the moon came into existence on the fourth day, because that is when light appeared. There was light in the Old Testament, but it appeared in the person of Jesus Christ. John the Baptist revealed the true light. John 1:29, “The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”
Jesus promised His New Testament church that He would send the Holy Spirit. John 16:7-8, “Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.” The Comforter is the Holy Spirit. “And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:” He, the Holy Spirit, does that through His people. We have no power to convict anyone of anything unless the Holy Spirit works through us. John l5:5, “…without me, ye can do nothing.” John 16:9-11, “Of sin, because they believe not on me; Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.” The Holy Spirit came at Pentecost to indwell His church. Immediately when He came, the people of God began to be the light of the world and began to reprove, or convict the Jews, and the Jews were saved. Since that time the Holy Spirit has worked through His people, convicting the world of sin. That is what light does. Matthew 5:14, “Ye are the light of the world…”
John 1:8-9, Talking about John the Baptist, “He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.” Talking about Jesus Christ, “That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.” Yes, there was light in the Old Testament. The light of the glory of God was in the sacrifices; it was in the lamb that was slain. There was light but God made visible the true light, Jesus Christ. He was the light of the Old Testament, which was not visible, but God made Him visible when He came into the world. The glory of God was manifested in the person of Jesus Christ.
Now here is a general account of the creation of man. Genesis 1:26, “And God said, Let us,” that is the plurality of God, God the Father, The Son, The Holy Spirit. A plural noun in the Hebrew means three. Singular is one, dual is two, and plural is three. So “let us make man in our image…” therefore, one God and three persons of the Godhead.
Verses
26-29, “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of
the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the
earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the
image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them,
Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every
living thing that moveth upon the earth.
[Replenish simply means to fill to fill the earth]. And God said, Behold, I have given you every
herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in
the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.”
Adam was a vegetarian. Before the flood, all mankind was vegetarian. He did not have the right to kill an animal to eat. It was after the flood that God gave man permission to eat the animals. Verse 31b, “…And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” This completes the six days that God worked in creation. I believe this represents the six thousand years of God’s timetable. God hath declared the end from the beginning.
This
was before the seventh day came into being.
Genesis 2:1, “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all
the host of them.” He is not going
to do any work on the seventh day.
It is the same way with God’s work of redemption. When God saves all the people that He has determined to save, it will be finished. I don't believe there will be anyone saved during the thousand-year reign. It will be finished. There will be people saved during the tribulation period, but not during the thousand-year reign, because He is going to cease from His work. We are going to be with Christ, He is going to be blessed in the work He has created, and we are going to give Him glory. God will have completed all of His work in six days. That is God's timetable.
Exodus
20:ll, “For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and
all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day,
and hallowed it.” Verse 10
“But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work…” There are seven literal days, six in which
He created and the seventh was for Himself.
Genesis 2:2, “And on the seventh day God ended his work which
he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had
made.”
After
God created, He immediately began to work with man. Adam and Eve failed when they sinned in the
Garden of Eden; but God saved them, I believe, and from that point He began to
save His people. For six thousand years,
He has been working to take out a people for Himself. The whole Bible is a story of
redemption. God is saving some people,
whom He shall enjoy, and be refreshed in one day, not only for one thousand
years, which is a sign to
When seven thousand years are complete there will not be any more time. God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, or set it apart. Just as He rested from all His work of creation, He will rest from His work of redemption. Each one of God's children is a new creation. God has been making new creatures by His grace for almost six thousand years. When He saves the last person that He has elected, He is going to be refreshed from that which He has created. The Bible says He looked upon it all and said it is very good. Verse 3, “And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it…” It was a day set aside to remember His completed work of creation. He was refreshed and rested.
It could be true that the seventh day is a type of the one thousand year reign. The Bible did not say the evening and the morning were the seventh day, because that seventh day, the glory of the Lord will be here upon this earth for one thousand years. There will be no more time after the seventh day, or after the seven thousand years, only eternity.
When we go through a week, Sunday through Saturday, we start over again counting from one through seven days, then we go back again the same way. We are going to count time in that manner until Christ comes. Then the scripture tells us that He is going to be refreshed and enjoy the works of His hands. When Christ returns and the one thousand years end, completing the seventh day, there will be no more weeks, there will be no more Sundays, there will be only the first day and it shall be eternal.
Proverbs 4:l8, “But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.” What is the perfect day? One that does not end, that has no evening, and no darkness. There will be eternal glory with our Lord. That is what the first day of the week typifies. What we shall do through eternity is what we should be doing today; coming into God's house, worshipping Him and giving Him the glory that is due to His name. God finished His seventh day and began to work with man. He has declared the end from the beginning. Time is simply that which God is working with.
It started in Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning God…” He sat down His timetable one through seven. God is following this timetable in seven days, which we call a week, over and over again. One day the week will end, and we will have one eternal day. Time will no longer be. We are currently living in time. God is doing His work with man and is still using a timetable. It is the same as He started with, six days to work, one to rest.
There is a difference in God's timetable that He is working with man. The Bible teaches us that one day is as a thousand years. Psalm 90:3-4, “Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past…” A thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past. One day is equal to one thousand years.
II Peter chapter 3 is all in the context of the second coming of the Lord. Verses 7-8, “But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment.” Notice, "the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” God hath declared the end from the beginning. One day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. Everything that God has told us would take place before His coming is taking place right now, before our eyes.
When
you see these things, the fig tree has already gotten her leaves, the time of
His coming is right upon us. God set
forth His timetable when He used the seven days of creation. One day is equal to a thousand years. When those six days of God’s working with man
are complete, those last thousand years will be a day hallowed unto the
Lord. He shall rule and reign for one
thousand years, as Revelation 20:1-10 says, “ And I saw an angel come
down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his
hand.
And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil,
and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless
pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the
nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he
must be loosed a little season. And I
saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I
saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the
word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither
had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived
and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the
first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be
priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. And when the thousand years are expired,
Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the
nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather
them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up on the breadth of the earth,
and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came
down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone,
where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night
for ever and ever.”
These
verses give an account of what shall happen after the seven years of
tribulation, and reveal Jesus reigning for one thousand years. Then after the seventh day, or one thousand
year reign in verse 6, chapter 21 reveals a new heaven and new earth and one
eternal day. Revelation 21:23-27, “And
the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the
glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. 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. And there shall in no
wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh
abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of
life.”
Revelation 2l: 3-5, “And I heard
a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men,
and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself
shall be with them, and be their God.
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no
more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain:
for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said,
Behold, I make all things new...”
Verse 1, “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the
first heaven and the first earth were passed away…”
That is exactly what Peter said; the first heaven and first earth are passed away. So when six thousand years are ended, His work will be finished. When His work is completed, He will come back. After He punishes the Jews, during the tribulation period, He will pour out His wrath upon the peoples of this earth for their sins. He is going to come back, to take control with the rod of iron, and He has written on His vesture, King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. He is going to reign for one thousand years, and this time will be hallowed unto the Lord and His timetable will be complete. You do not read in the Bible of any time counted after the thousand year reign; just one eternal day.
Anyone who has studied the Bible in detail knows that the number seven is used to signify fullness or completeness. It is used four hundred, thirty-seven times in the Bible, always as fullness or completeness. Genesis 2:2, “And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.” When He finished the seventh day, He started all over again. There are seven seals in Revelation, seven trumpets, seven vials, seven spirits, seven churches, seven days in a week, seven notes in the music scale, seven days Noah was in the ark before the flood, seven days in which the priest were consecrated, seven times the children of Israel went around Jericho, there are seven branches on a candlestick. We could go through the Bible and have hundreds of examples. Each time the number seven is used it signifies fullness or completeness. God is telling us this in His timetable.
God
is working with man for His own glory, and it is all for Him. God did not
create this world for us to just have a good time. Colossians 1:16, “For by him were
all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and
invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers:
all things were created by him, and for him:” When God saves His
people, they are created by Him, and for Him, and He will enjoy them one day.
He is before all things and by Him all things consist and are held together. Romans 11:36, “For of him, and
through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.” No wonder, if you are saved by the grace
of God, you are of Him and through Him. You
were created to give Him glory. Therefore;
to Him be glory for ever and ever. Proverbs
16:4, “The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the
wicked for the day of evil.”
Since
creation, God has been working with man.
After He created man, immediately He began His work with him. Here is a summary of the truths that can be
proven through the scriptures. One day
equals one thousand years in God's timetable.
For two thousand years God worked with all men. They became corrupt and were destroyed in
B.C. 1656 by the flood. The earth was
populated again. They all spoke one
language, but when they tried to build a tower to heaven, God confounded their
language. God turned to one man,
Abraham, and made a great nation out of Him.
For two thousand years, from Genesis chapter 12 through the Old
Testament, God dealt with the nation of
Did you ever stop to think why
we have time counted as A.D. and B.C?
A.D. is after the year of our Lord and B.C. is before Christ’s
birth. We have had approximately two
thousand years since Christ was born. In
God’s timetable, He can soon say, “I have finished my work.” The thousand years is going to be separated
unto the Lord. The Bible says Christ is
going to sit over the twelve tribes of
God made Adam and Eve. Then He began to work with man. He worked, He rested, and then He went to work. Look at your life. Each one of us has tried to work for salvation. Christ came and finished the work. When we trust Him, we quit trying to work for salvation, and rest in His finished work. After we rest in His finished work, then we go to work for His glory. We cannot work for salvation, but we can trust in the finished work of Christ.
He
told
Have you ever wondered why the Lord put all those dates of men's births and deaths in the Bible? So and so begat so and so.... he died and he begat so and so and he died, etc. I used to read the Bible and skip over all the dates. I wondered why God put those things in the Bible and spent so much time with them. II Timothy 3:16, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine...” Those dates are profitable.
Genesis 5:5, “And all the days
that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.” Verse 3, “And Adam lived an hundred and thirty
years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his
name Seth:” Adam was one hundred and thirty years old when Seth was
born. Verse 6, “And Seth lived
an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:” Verse 9, “And Enos lived
ninety years, and begat Cainan:” Verse 12, “And Cainan
lived seventy years and begat Mahalaleel:” Verse 15, “And
Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:” Verse l8,
"And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and begat Enoch.” Verse 21, “And Enoch lived
sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:” Verse 25, “And
Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:” Verse
28, "And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat
a son:” Verse 29, “And he called his name Noah…”
Genesis 7:11, “In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.” Noah was six hundred years old. If you add all these figures, from Adam down to Noah and the time of the flood, it totals 1,656 years. Not millions as some would have you believe. Here are some facts: first of all, the word of God is true; Romans 3:4, “…let God be true, but every man a liar…” From Adam to the birth of Noah was 1,056 years. Since Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came, from Adam until the flood was 1,656 years. From Adam to the birth of Lamech was 874 years. Since Adam lived to be 930 years old, Lamech, Noah's father, lived 56 years while Adam was alive. Lamech was fifty-six years old when Adam died. Noah could have gotten his knowledge of creation secondhand from his father Lamech who could have talked with Adam. Does that sound like millions of years, or does that sound like a little over a day and a half?
Lamech could have taken Noah upon his knee and from the time he was born, he could have taught him about creation, which he could have learned from Adam. This is a time span of just three generations, Adam, Lamech, and Noah. Does that sound like millions or does that sound like God is working in thousands, or hundreds of years? Then I ask you, why did God see fit to record all of this? Remember, all scripture is profitable for doctrine. These dates are for a purpose. They disprove evolution. Evolutionist deal with millions of years, God says thousands. Get your mind off millions now and get it on thousands. God's timetable declares the end from the beginning: seven days, seven thousand years. For 1656 years God worked with the whole human race, they became corrupt.
Genesis
6:5, "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the
earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil
continually.” Verses,
12-13, “And God looked upon
the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt;” after 1656 years "for
all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah,
The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence
through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.”
Two days, two thousand years,
have not passed, and the whole earth had corrupted his ways. Genesis 6:7, “And the LORD said, I will
destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and
beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me
that I have made them.” There was no
one to leave God's message with. II
Peter 2:5, Noah was “…a preacher of righteousness…” Noah knew very close to the time the Lord
would destroy this earth. Genesis 6:3, “And
the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is
flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.” He preached and people would not pay
attention to him. I am preaching to you
and you will not pay attention. Hebrews
11:7, “…Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with
fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the
world…” Our works ought to condemn
the world, as we look forward to the coming of the Lord. We ought to be working for Him rather than
for ourselves. Mankind lasted only 1656
years, less than two days and God destroyed them all. Only eight souls were saved, Shem, Ham,
Japheth, Noah and their wives. They
believed God, went into the ark and were saved.
Matthew 24:37 "But as
the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” Noah knew what was going on.
I Thessalonians 5:5, “Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.” We need to know what is going on, that is what Christ said; blessed is that servant that gives His people meat in the proper time.
I
am trying to prove to you from the scriptures that this earth is not millions
of years old, but it is less than six thousand years old. God picks up the timetable after the flood. Genesis 9:28, “And Noah lived after
the flood three hundred and fifty years.” Genesis ll:l0, “These are the
generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two
years after the flood:” Verse 12, “And Arphaxad lived five
and thirty years, and begat Salah:” Verse 14, "And
Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:” Verse 16, “And Eber
lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:” Verse 18, “And
Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:” Verse 20, "And
Rue lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:” Verse 22, “And Serug lived
thirty years, and begat Nahor:” Verse 24, “And Nahor lived
nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:” Terah was Abraham's father. Verse 26, “And Terah lived
seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and
By studying these figures, it was 1878 years from creation to the birth of Terah, Abraham's father, who was seventy years old when Abram was born. That makes the birth of Abraham, in the year 1948. From Adam to Noah's birth was 1,056 years. Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came. Genesis 9:28-29, “And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years…and he died.” So Noah died in the year 2006. This world is less than six thousand years old. When Noah died, a third of the time had already elapsed. I am trying to show you that this earth is not millions of years old but thousands: therefore Noah died fifty-eight years after Abram was born. It was two hundred and ninety two years from the flood to the birth of Abraham; not millions. In these few years after the flood, the earth was populated again. It only took a few years for people to corrupt themselves again. This is why God turned to Abraham to build a nation.
Genesis 11:1, “And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.” This was after the flood of which only eight people were saved. The whole earth was of one language and one speech.
Verse
2, “And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they
found a plain in the
They
did not want to be scattered. They were
of one language and of one speech. We
want to be as one. Is not that what is
happening today? This world is being
brought back together. The religions of
this world want to be one. They do not
take a firm stand for anything so no one will be offended. They do not want to be scattered anymore.
Verses
5-7, “And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the
children of men builded. And the LORD
said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they
begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have
imagined to do. Go to, let us go
down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one
another's speech.” Verse 9, “Therefore
is the name of it called
I
have given all these scriptures to prove it only took three hundred, fifty-two
years for the people to corrupt themselves again, not millions. They were scattered, and God began to deal
with the Jews, beginning with Abram. For
two thousand years God dealt with the Jews, they rejected Him and He scattered
them. If you want to know why people
speak different languages upon the earth, it is recorded in Verse 9. God confounded the language of all the earth. That is exactly what is happening today. People want a United World, like the
Adam lived fifty-six years with Lamech, Noah's father. Noah's son Shem lived ninety-three years with Lamech. Shem, Noah's son lived one hundred fifty years with Isaac. Isaac was Abraham's son. Therefore Isaac could have talked to Shem, Noah's son, who could have talked to Lamech, Noah's father, who could have talked with Adam. Adam was created, could have talked with Lamech, Lamech to Shem, and Shem to Isaac. The story of God’s creation could have been passed down by four generations who had lived 2,158 years. This is not millions of years, but just a little over two thousand. At that time, God ceased to work with all men and turned to Abram, to make a nation.
Genesis 12:1-4, “Now the
LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred,
and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make
of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and
thou shalt be a blessing:” This was the beginning of the Jewish nation. “And I will bless them that bless thee,
and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be
blessed. So Abram departed, as the LORD
had spoken unto him; And Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five
years old when he departed out of
Genesis
21:5, "And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was
born unto him.” Genesis 17:17, “Then
Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child
be born unto him that is an hundred years old?
and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?” Genesis 25:20, “And Isaac
was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife…” Isaac begat Jacob and Esau. Jacob had twelve sons, who grew into a
great nation in
Exodus 12:40, “Now the
sojourning of the children of
From
Genesis, chapter 12, until the last book of the Old Testament, which is
Malachi, God has recorded His work with the children of
God dealt with
If you still think the age of
this earth can be measured in millions of years, look in Matthew, chapter
l. God gives us all the genealogy
starting from Abraham. Matthew l:17, “So
all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from
David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from
the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.” Does that sound like millions of years to
you? God started with Abraham and
recorded all the people in whom they were begat, until the days of Jesus
Christ, approximately two thousand years.
From Abraham to David, a period of nine hundred, seventy-six years, one
generation was approximately seventy years.
From David to
From
Abraham to Jesus Christ was two thousand years, God scattered the Jews, then
they abode many days without a king, and after two days He will revive them. It
has been about two thousand years and God is again with the Jews. They are back in their own land and all God
has to do is breath on them and they will live, as Ezekiel said. God is turning back to
Chapter
V – Prophecy Concerning The Jews
Here is proof that the prophecy in the Old Testament concerning the Jews returning is taking place, after a period of about two thousand years. We will deal only with the Jewish people and the prophecy that they will return, when they will return, and how it is happening today. The last two thousand years is almost over.
You
will find recorded in Jeremiah from two thousand, six hundred years ago the
prophecy of the return of the Jews. Jeremiah
31:17, “And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy
children shall come again to their own border.” Notice...
“in thine end.” There is the
latter end, when they will return again to their own border. Verse 31, “Behold, the days
come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of
Verses
32-36, “Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers
in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt;
which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the
LORD: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel;
After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and
write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his
neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all
know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for
I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for
a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by
night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is
his name: If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD,
then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for
ever.”
When
you see the sun, moon, and stars, it is still a sign that God has His hand on
Isaiah
14:1-2, “For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose
Jeremiah 30:3, “For,
lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my
people
Verse
24, “The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have
done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter
days ye shall consider it.” Chapter
31:8-10, “Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and
gather them from the coasts of the earth.” Remember this was recorded two thousand,
six hundred years ago. “and
with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth
with child together: a great company shall return thither. They shall come with weeping, and with
supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of
waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to
Jeremiah 32:37-41, “Behold,
I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine
anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto
this place, [that is where they are] and I will cause them
to dwell safely: And they shall be my people, and I will be their God: And I
will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the
good of them, and of their children after them: And I will make an everlasting
covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I
will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me. Yea, I
will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land
assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.”
Chapter
33:7, “And I will cause the captivity of
Ezekiel 11:17, “Therefore
say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and
assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give
you the
Ezekiel 28:25, “Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.” The Jews are going to dwell in the land that God gave to Jacob. Verse 26, “And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them: and they shall know that I am the LORD their God.” They are going to possess the land that God has given unto them, and will fight anyone who tries to take it from them.
Ezekiel
34:13, “And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them
from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon
the mountains of
Verse 28, “And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.” Ezekiel 37:21, “And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:” Verse 24, “And David my servant shall be king over them...” God is bringing them back and they are going to live. Our Lord is going to come and He is going to reign upon the throne of His father David. That time is almost here.
Chapter
38:14-16, “Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog,” Gog
is
Ezekiel
38:8, “After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years
thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is
gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been
always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell
safely all of them.”
The
Jews always gloried in the fact that God delivered them out of
I
have proven to you that it was prophesied of the Jews return to their own land
two thousand, six hundred years before it happened. This has taken place right in our lifetime,
in 1948. The Bible says that
In
the west, troops of the victorious Army stood on the banks of the
The
Arab route was complete. Though
Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian troops had fought and died bravely in a score of
nameless desert battles, neither they nor their leaders had proved anywhere a
match for the brilliant planning and execution of the Israeli attack - nor for
the studiedly implacable ferocity with which it was carried out.” (The above quoted from Newsweek, June
19, 1967.)
In
l948 after
No one knows the day or the hour, but we know
Christ’s return is very close. The
prophecy in the scripture tells us that
God
chose
God
promised to bless them. Verse 9-15, “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; And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy
them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his
face. Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the
judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them. Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye harken
to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep
unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers: And he
will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit
of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil,
the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he
sware unto thy fathers to give thee. Thou shalt be blessed above all people:
there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. And the Lord will take away from thee all
sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of
God promised to bless
Notice
the warning Chapter 8:l9-20, “And it shall be, if thou do at all
forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship
them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish. As the nations which the LORD destroyeth
before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the
voice of the LORD your God.”
Chapter
28:63-66, “And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over
you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to
destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the
land whither thou goest to possess it. And
the LORD shall scatter thee among all people.” Remember He scattered all people after the
flood and this is a warning to the Jews.
“And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one
end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods,
which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone. And among these nations shalt thou find no
ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give
thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind: And thy
life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and
shalt have none assurance of thy life.
Going
back into history, Joshua led the children of
When
The time between Abraham and David
includes the Judges, the wandering in the wilderness; the sojourning in
Verse
20, “Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou
standest by faith. Be not highminded,
but fear:” Verse 22, “Behold therefore the goodness and
severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness…” God cut the Jews off and extended His
goodness to the Gentiles, “…if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise
thou also shalt be cut off.” The
Bible tells us the Lord is not going to come again unless there be a falling
away. Verse 23, “And they
also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able
to graff them in again.” He
cut them off; He is going to graft them in again. Verse 24, “For if thou,
[Gentiles] wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature,
and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall
these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?” God is going back to the Jews.
God Turns To The Gentiles
Verse 25-26,
“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
Ephesians 1:10, “…in the dispensation of the fulness of times…” When the fulness of times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. Time equals one thousand years, times equals two thousand years; in the times of the Gentiles when they are fulfilled, God will again go back to the Jews. God has been dealing with Gentiles almost two thousand years and that is the times of the Gentiles, then He will go back to the Jews. Hebrews 1:2 “Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son…” These are the last days, the last two thousand years. There are some Baptist preachers who are preaching that God is through with the Jews. That is what the Bible means when it says, “that servant says the Lord delayeth His coming. In a little while, He shall come.” God describes the days we are now living in as a little while.
Revelation
l:l, “…Things which must
shortly come to pass;…” Revelation
22:6, “…things which must shortly be done.” Hebrews l0:37, “For yet a little
while, he that shall come will come...” He said just a little while, just a couple
of days. II Peter 3:8, “…one day is
with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”
There is a falling away. Before the Jews were scattered, they turned away from the Lord. Before God does away with the system of His church, many will depart from the faith. If you believe the majority of the Lord's churches are standing for the truth, you are mistaken. There are still a few who are faithful to the whole council of God, but few are still preaching as they once did. Most Baptist churches, especially Southern Baptist churches, no longer mention the doctrines of grace, depravity, limited atonement and security of the believers. The majority of today’s churchgoers will not stay where doctrine is taught. All Baptist churches preached those truths a few years ago. In the last fifty years, a lot of churches have departed from the old paths. In the latter days, some shall depart from the faith. He did not say all...some shall depart from the faith.
From
Malachi until the birth of Jesus Christ there was about four hundred years of
silence. During this time Daniel's prophecy was taking place. Nebuchadnezzar had the dream of the image of
the beast. The head was of gold, which
symbolized
If
you get your calculator and figure up Daniel's seventy weeks, in Daniel,
chapter 9, from the time that Darius issued the degree to go back to
Remember
the six days of God's timetable. Hebrews
1:1-2, “God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time
past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us
by his Son…” I want you to
notice the words in these last days.
These are the last days. Four
days have passed, only two remain. Joel
2:28-31, “And it shall come to pass afterward, [notice the
word afterward] that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; [Pentecost]
and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream
dreams, your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon
the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in
the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and
the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.”
The
New Testament interprets this. In Acts 2, the apostle Peter used this verse to
tell the people what was happening on the day of Pentecost. When the Holy Spirit came at Pentecost he
said, verses 15-20, “For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing
it is but the third hour of the day. But
this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; And it shall come to pass in
the last days,” notice that, in the last days. Joel said afterward, Peter interprets it,
“in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh:”
He
is saying the Holy Spirit was poured out and the sun and the moon shall be
darkened, all in the last days. In other
words, at the beginning of the last two thousand years, God is going to pour
out His spirit upon all flesh, but in that same two thousand years He is going
to cause the sun to be darkened and the moon shall not give her light. Both of these things are going to take place
in the last days.
Return
To The Jews
That is why Peter included both of them, when he said this is in the last days. Why didn't he stop with the Spirit being spread forth? Why did he go on, when he was talking about the last days? I tell you why he didn't stop, because in the last two thousand years the Lord has dealt with His church. The church is going to reject Him, as they have today. The Lord's churches are no longer standing for the truth as they once did. After two days they are going to be rejected and the Lord is going to again go back to dealing with the Jews. There had to be a falling away, a departing from the faith before God would turn back to the Jews.
I Peter 1:5, talking about God's people. “Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time (singular).” If you have studied the Bible, you know that the book of Daniel talks about time (one year), times (plural - two years), and half times (one half year): or three and one half years. Revelation uses that same measurement; time, times, and half time. But the Bible says He shall be ready to be revealed in the last time. That is when God’s elect shall see Him face to face, when he appears in the clouds.
We used to
drive to
Psalm 74:9, “We see not our signs:…” Did you ever drive down the road and miss your sign? You drove too far and missed the turn you were to take. I have gotten interested in something else and missed the correct turn. “We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.” God has told His preachers to bring forth this information in due season. Verse 10, “O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?” No, he shall not, for God is king and is coming. Others may not see these signs, but it is my responsibility, as a pastor, to reveal to you that we are close to the coming of our Lord.
I Peter 1:20, talking about Jesus Christ who shed His blood for us. “Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.” He came as a son, on the fourth day.
Jude 18-19, “How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.” Surely you can see that today the world is filled with people who have sensual, fleshly lust, who do not have the Spirit, who walk after their own ungodly lust, mockers. Does the world not mock the truth? They mock eternal security, depravity, particular redemption; they mock all these truths exactly as God said they would.
These are the signs the Lord has placed along the road, showing us the time is close. Daniel 12:4, “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.” Two things that are said will happen at the time of the end: (1) many shall run to and fro, (2) knowledge shall be increased.
I
have a set of 1893 Britannica Encyclopedias that I bought at an auction years
ago. I have searched these books and cannot
find an automobile or an airplane. I
cannot find them in the encyclopedias because they didn't exist at that
time. For over one thousand, nine
hundred years this world did not have automobiles or airplanes. In the Standard International Encyclopedia I
found recorded that in 1895, the world's first automobile was made. It had four wheels and looked like a kitty
cart. The first sea-going motor ship was
a tanker launched in 1913. For over one
thousand, nine hundred years ships were powered with sails and oars. Then all at once, knowledge began to
increase. The Queen Mary is now dry
docked at
This did not
happen the first 1900 years after Christ.
My mother-in-law was born in 1900.
Since her birth, the automobile has come into existence; the Model T in
l920; airplanes; jets have been invented; the space shuttle which can travel
17,000 mph; man has landed and walked upon the moon; we have nuclear weapons;
the atomic bomb; and the hydrogen bomb which can destroy anything in its
path. Just think, over two hundred years
ago they were shooting arrows.
Television has come into existence, in order for the entire world to see
the two witnesses, when they tell
Daniel also said, many shall run to and fro.... If you go out, and look up into the sky, you will see jet streaks going to and fro. In fact, there are so many planes in the sky that they must have radar to assure they do not crash into each other. Men are going to and fro. Traffic is at an all time high in our cities, and on our interstate highways because men are going to and fro. There is traffic everywhere, going and coming. In 1900 there were no automobiles, only horses and buggies. Then the automobiles came; we would pull off the road and let them pass by. Ask yourself this question, why did we not have automobiles for 1900 years? People were just as smart in 1900. Why did they not have the ability and the technology to build these things? I will tell you why. God's eternal plan was, in the last days, knowledge shall be increased and men shall go to and fro. Do you see this sign? It is telling us that the coming of the Lord is very close.
Here is another sign. Remember we are almost at the end of that sixth day; the seventh will be hallowed unto the Lord. The Holy Spirit is speaking in I Timothy 4:1, “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times…” this phrase means near to the end, “…some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;” This scripture is talking about the system of teaching and doctrine, not that personal faith in Christ. Jude 3, “…that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.” The faith is God’s system of teaching and doctrine that was given to His kind of church. The Bible says that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, that is apostasy, going away from the truth.
The
Lord's churches have lived and died for the teaching of the King James
Bible. The Trail of Blood gives
the account of the early believers of the first nineteen hundred years. They were so conscious and concerned about
the truth that they were willing to die for it.
Now, since about l940, Baptists are departing from the truth. Look at your own life as an individual member
of a Baptist church. Are you willing to
have your blood shed for the truth? Most
Baptist today are not even willing to attend the house of God to hear the
truth. You cannot live for Christ, if
you are not concerned enough to worship Him in spirit and in truth. You are departing from the faith. Those of you, who put worldly things before
the Lord, are the ones who are departing from the faith, giving heed to
seducing spirits and doctrines of demons.
Baptist churches need to stand for the truth. Baptists have departed from the faith.
Many
from the Southern Baptist Seminary in
There is no salvation outside of the grace of God. If God does not save you, you will never be saved. Think what I am saying. Eternal security is being denied. That is the only kind of salvation there is, eternal. Separation is being denied; all Baptist churches want to come together and be as one.
II Corinthians 6:17, “…be ye separate, saith the Lord…” II Corinthians 6:14, “…what communion hath light with darkness?” Baptist churches do not believe Titus 2:12-13, “Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;” Church members should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world. Have you departed from the faith?
Many times members will say, I just don't feel like going to church. The trouble is in the heart. You have head knowledge, and there is nothing in your heart. Romans 10:10, “For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”
Baptists have turned away from the teaching of a woman’s place in the church. I Corinthians 14:34, “Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.” Yet women are ruling most Baptist Churches. Baptist churches are ordaining women preachers and women deacons. God said this should not be. A pastor cannot control other Baptist churches and should not try to; but I tell you what each pastor should do, he should preach and stand for the truth in his church. If you are not willing to stand for the truth, your church will go downhill just like the rest of them. It takes a preacher and a people to stand. You need to be in church each time services are held, including Wednesday night.
Did you know that demons have their doctrine? Did you know that the devil has spread his doctrine? People are going toward that doctrine. Any doctrine that is not according to God's inspired word is the devil’s doctrine. Romans ll:20, “…Be not highminded, but fear:” If you go into unbelief, you will be cut off. God tells us very clearly in II Thessalonians, chapter 2 that the antichrist will not appear until the Holy Spirit be taken out of the way. There must be a falling away first, and that falling away is here now. Most Baptist churches are no longer the pillar and ground of the truth.
Here is another sign: II Timothy 4:l-4, “I charge thee…” Paul talking to young Timothy, the preacher “…therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick…” the living, “…and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.” In other words, just keep on preaching. “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine;” If you went into many Baptist churches and taught what is being taught in a sound church, you would be thrown out. “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; [The doctrine, which is according to godliness. The word endure means to hold up.] but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.” They do not want to be taught the truth, they want to satisfy their own lusts. They want teachers that teach what they want to hear, who do not preach on sin and the consequences of it.
Before you move away from a church that is preaching the truth, you should examine your reason for leaving. If you are leaving because you no longer want to hear the truth taught, then you are in the ‘falling away’ category, turning to fables and myths. The word fables means tales or legends. People today do not want the truth; they are determined to observe holidays like Christmas, a myth or a fable. It does not matter if preachers have proven that it is against the truth, some people will still celebrate. Be warned that you are satisfying your own lusts of the flesh.
Easter
is not the truth. The word Easter is
used only one time in the New Testament and should have been translated
passover. Those who observe this holiday
get all enthused at the rising of the sun and say they are worshiping the
resurrection of Jesus Christ. My Lord
came out of the grave around 6:00 on Saturday night. While it was yet dark, they went to the grave
and He was not there. A sunrise service
ought to be observed fifty-two weeks of the year. Upon the first day of the week we observe the
resurrection of our Lord, Jesus Christ.
If you observe Easter, you need to know that you are involved in idol
worship. You are turning away from the
truth, to the lust of the flesh. John
l0:27, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:”
II Thessalonians 2:l-l5, “Now
we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our
gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be
troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the
day of Christ is at hand. Let no man
deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a
falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who
opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is
worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself
that he is God. Remember ye not, that,
when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth that he
might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work:
only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom
the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the
brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan
with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of
unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the
truth, that they might be saved. And for
this cause God shall send them strong delusions, that they should believe a
lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure
in unrighteousness. But we are bound to
give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God
hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the
Spirit and belief of the truth: Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the
obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the
traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.”
Do you want to know the condition of the world when Christ comes? Luke l8 is the parable of the unjust judge. The widow woman continually asked him to avenge her adversary. The judge turned her away, but she just kept coming to him, until he wearied of her continual petition. The Lord is teaching us always to pray and not to faint. Keep on knocking at the door of our Lord; don't cease to pray. Men ought always to pray. The scriptures tell us through this parable that we ought to keep on asking, just as the widow woman kept bothering this judge. Eventually he gave her what she asked for.
Luke l8:7-8, “And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?” Shall He find faith on the earth? This refers to praying. Will He find faith that prays? Will He find people that cry unto Him day and night? We need that, and yet we too, are guilty. We need our Lord just as much today as we ever have. Hebrews l0:25, “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.” We need to come together with God's people and pray, because the Lord's churches are not praying like we should. The lack of prayer is one of the signs of the coming of our Lord. The Bible talks about people praying day and night. We do not take time to pray.
This
is another sign of the Lord's coming. II
Timothy 3:l, “This know also, that in the last days perilous times
shall come.” Perilous means
hard, difficult. The word is translated
as fierce in Matthew, Chapter 8, in the description of demons. Does this also describe our generation?
Verses 2-4, “For men shall be lovers of their own selves…” Isn't that just about the condition today? “…covetous…” Love gives, covetous always wants, more...more…more... “…boasters,…” Today we are always boasting about what I am, what I have done, and what I have gotten. “…proud,…” We are proud, lifting self up. This is the very opposite of meekness. “…blasphemers,…” Do you like to work on your job with people who are lost? They curse, using the Lord's name in vain, and use filthy language. That is what the Bible said would happen. “…disobedient to parents,” Do we need to say more about this scripture? Children today, who are l2, l3, or l4 years old act as if they are grown, and do not care what Mom and Dad say. Children were not disobedient to their parents thirty or forty years ago. “…unthankful….” Everything we have comes from God. We need to thank Him for it. How many really stop and thank God for the food? How many of you thank God for your blessings, your salvation, your children, your home, we could go on and on. How many of us are really thankful to God? “…unholy,” How many people are holy and live righteously and godly in these last days? “Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent,…” We read in the newspapers each day about young boys shooting their mother or father, brothers or sisters, or going into a restaurant with a machine gun killing anyone. They then stand in their house and dare the police to come in. No self-control. “…fierce, despisers of those that are good.” The world despises those who try to do the right things. “Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God.” Never let pleasures mean more to you than God. Never make a decision to put pleasure before God. God will not bless you.
Verse 5, “Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.” Is this the description of modern day churches? They have a form of godliness. The congregation comes into the house of God, they sing a song or two, but at l2:00 the preacher quits, so they can go home. If he preaches after 12:00, most congregations will get rid of him. They have a show for the world to see, but no conviction in their heart of sin. Do not expect them back on Sunday night, or Wednesday night. They have a form of godliness, but deny the power thereof; from such turn away.
I
Corinthians 4:20, “For the
The way of the world in Noah’s day is the same way it will be when the Lord returns. The Bible says, they ate and drank. There is nothing wrong with eating and drinking, but that was all they had on their minds. They did not think about the judgment. Noah preached to them how God was going to destroy the world, but they were eating and drinking and having a good time. Noah warned them. Today the world is the same way. People do not have their mind on the coming of the Lord. They have their mind on eating and drinking, lust of the flesh.
In the days before the flood, they married wives. It is commonplace today for a man to have more than one wife. Genesis 6:2, “…they took them wives of all which they chose.” The Bible teaches that it is right for a man to have one wife and a woman to have one husband, and the only cause for separation is death. They did eat and they did drink, but there was no concern about God, no concern about judgment, and no conviction for their sin. All they had on their mind was the world and the lust thereof. How many people have you talked with today that have their mind on the coming of the Lord?
Genesis 6:5, “And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” Verse 11, “The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.” This is the condition of the world today. You need only watch the news to see how much violence we have today. People everywhere have no real conviction that all this is sin against God, and God will punish sin. That was the way it was in the days of Noah, and that is the way it is today.
Does
this look like the antichrist was ruling here?
In the days of Noah, they were not having a hard time. No, they were having a good time; they were
eating, drinking and having a big time.
Luke 17:28, “Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they
did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;” In
the days of
In
Genesis
19:1, “And there came two angels to
Verse
6-11, “And
As
it was in the days of
In Luke 21, God warns us, do not look for the antichrist, but for the coming of the Lord. Verse 34-36, “And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting,…” that word means fullness, having so much that you do not think about the Lord “…and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.” That is the way it was in the days of Noah, they were unaware. God said do not settle down in this world, but look for the coming of the Lord. “For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.” Be counted worthy to escape all these things. God's children are going to be raptured, snatched away, before all these terrible things in the tribulation period come to pass. One shall be taken and the other shall be left and then the antichrist will be revealed in that time. The great tribulation will come, he will set himself up as god, the whole world will worship him as god, and the Jews will receive him.
II Thessalonians 2:9-10, “Even him, whose
coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders. The antichrist will be Satan incarnate. And with all deceivableness of
unrighteousness in them that perish; because they [the people on this
earth] received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.” The people did not like or want the
truth. They turned their ears from the
truth; they departed from the truth.
Verses 11-12, “And for this cause God shall send them strong
delusion, that they should believe a lie:
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had
pleasure in unrighteousness.” God
will give those people something that they will believe. People will believe
the lie and accept the antichrist. The
Jews will accept him, no doubt, as their Messiah. He will be in the
We
rejoice in Verse l3. “But we
are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord,
because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through
sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth.” If you are saved, God has chosen you to
salvation. That is His elect. Salvation is through sanctification of the
Spirit. The Holy Spirit came unto you
through the new birth, set you apart, and caused you to believe the truth. That is the only way to be saved, or born
again. Lord, what did you intend to do? Verses l4-15, “Whereunto he called
you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the
traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.”
Matthew
24 speaks of the events to take place in the tribulation period, but they will
begin to take place in our day and time.
Verse 3-7, “…Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy
coming, and of the end of the world? And
Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am
Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye
shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all
these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation…” The civil war of the
Matthew 24:8, “All these are the beginning of sorrows.” Christ gave us some general signs of the things that are coming upon the earth. The people of God will be hated, lawlessness shall abound, no respect for law. Verse l2-13, “And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.”
We are now living in 2004. Our calendar is off just a few years. Do you understand what I am saying? The Jews are back in their own land, even in
God will snatch His people up before the
great tribulation period, which is Daniel’s seventieth week. He worked with the Jews for sixty-nine weeks,
even until the day from the decree of the signing to go forth to build
The whole context of Matthew 24 is the rapture. Remember the questions that were asked? Verse 3, “…When shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?” Here is the rapture. Verse 27, “For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west…” It does not come all the way to the ground. The Lord said as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west. That is in the air. “…so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” This will be in the air. Verse 28 “For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.” God’s people are the eagles. He made us to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
Luke l7:34,
“I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one
shall be taken, and the other shall be left.” We do not have any trouble with the
one that was left. He is going to be
left where he was. But where is the
other one going? Verse 35-37, “Two
women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other
left. Two men shall be in the field; the
one shall be taken, and the other left.
And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord?” Where are you going to take them? “…Wheresoever the body is, [that
is Jesus Christ] thither will the eagles be gathered together.”
The Lord is going to come and we
are going to be called up together to be with Him in the air. Where the body is, that is where we are
going. He shall come in the air, the One
we have been looking for, the One we have been trusting in, the One who died
for our sins. To those who are looking
for Him, He shall come in the air. Where
is the Lord going to take us? I
Thessalonians 4:l6-17, “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: 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.” That is what we call the rapture.
When will the resurrection be? John 6:39, “And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.” .
Verse
40, “And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which
seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will
raise him up at the last day.” John
11:24-25, “Martha saith unto him, I know that he,…” Lazarus, “…shall rise again in the
resurrection at the last day. Jesus said
unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though
he were dead, yet shall he live:”
At the last day something else is going to happen. Verse 26, “And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?” At the last day, there are going to be some people that are alive and trusting in the Lord; they are not going to die, but will be translated and taken up to be with the Lord. I Thessalonians 4:14-17, “For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 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. 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: 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.” This will happen at the last day.
There is
another sign that will be seen, after the rapture, before the Lord comes all
the way back to this earth, at His second coming. Revelation 11:3-10, “And I will
give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two
hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.” That is three and one half years. “These are the two olive trees, and
the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. And if any man will hurt them, fire
proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will
hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their
prophesy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the
earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that
ascendeth out of the bottomless pit [that is the antichrist] shall
make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. And their dead bodies shall lie in the street
of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our
Lord was crucified, [that is Jerusalem] And they of the
people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three
days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another;
because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.”
There
will be two witnesses that shall prophesy, shall be killed, and shall lie in
the streets of
They
claim that three billion people watched Neal Armstrong when he landed on the
moon. One hundred years ago people would
mock and say that could not happen. They
would have said it is not possible to see two dead men lying in the streets; we
would all have to go to
The rapture,
and the great tribulation are two separate events. The whole context of Zechariah l4 is when He
gathers all nations against
After
God’s people are taken out, those that remain are
going to have great tribulation. Matthew
24:29-30, “Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the
sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall
fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall
appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of
the earth mourn,…” The word
tribe is translated two hundred fifty times in the Bible and it always means
When
shall
Jeremiah16:16-18,
“Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall
fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them
from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks. For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they
are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.” Here is the tribulation. “And first I will recompense their
iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land…” In other words, God is going to bring the
Jews back into their homeland, and then He is going to punish them for seven
years of tribulation, called Jacob's trouble.
God will punish
Jeremiah
23:5-8, “Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise
unto David a righteous Branch, [that is Jesus] and a King shall
reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.” This is not speaking about David. David lived four hundred years before this
time. He is talking about Jesus. “In his days
I John 2:18, “Little
children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall
come,” in other words the antichrist will come at the last time, the last
one thousand years; at the very end of time the antichrist will come, “even
now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.”
Matthew 24:29, “Immediately
after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon
shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers
of the heavens shall be shaken:” The Bible says in Joel, and Peter
interpreted it at the day of Pentecost, that in these last days, the sun will
be darkened and the moon shall not give her light.
Isaiah 13:6-11, “Howl
ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the
Almighty. Therefore shall all hands be
faint, and every man's heart shall melt: And they shall be afraid: pangs and
sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that
travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames. Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel
both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall
destroy the sinners thereof out of it. For
the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light:
the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her
light to shine. And I will punish the
world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity;…” This is going to happen in the last
days.
Isaiah 24:17-22 gives us the
great tribulation. Verse 20, “The
earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard…” that is the great tribulation
period. Verses 22-23, “And
they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and
shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited. Then the moon shall be confounded, [or
become red] and the sun ashamed, [will not give her light]
when the LORD of hosts shall reign in
Joel 2:10, Talking about this latter day. “The earth shall quake before them;
the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars
shall withdraw their shining:” Chapter 3:2, “I will
also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of
Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage
Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.” Verses 9-15, “Proclaim ye
this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men
of war draw near; let them come up: Beat your plowshares into swords, and your
pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. Assemble yourselves, and come [that is
Armageddon] Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the
Mark
13:24, “But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be
darkened, and the moon shall not give her light.” Luke 21:24b, “
The
Blessed Hope and The Day of Christ
Zechariah 14:4-5, “And
his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before
Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst
thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great
valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it
toward the south. And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the
valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye
fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the
LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.” That is when He comes all the way back to
the earth. Verse 7, “But it
shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it
shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.” That is the reason the Lord did not say
on the seventh day the evening and the morning shall be the seventh day. On the seventh day, when our Lord reigns for
one thousand years, at evening time it shall be light. The glory of the Lord shall lighten this
earth for one thousand years. It won't
be as it has been in the first six days.
Zechariah 12:2-3, “Behold,
I will make
II Thessalonians 2:2, “That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us [this is a different day altogether] as that the day of Christ is at hand.” The day of Christ and the gathering together unto Him are two different events. The rapture is our gathering together unto Him. The day of Christ is when Christ comes back to earth and takes over this world. That is the glorious appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ. That is the day of Christ.
The day of the antichrist will be during the seven-year tribulation period. But the day of Christ is going to come at the end of the tribulation period, He is going to come and destroy the antichrist. Verse 8, “…and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming.” This is His glorious appearing. Titus 2:l3, “Looking for that blessed hope,…” that is the rapture, “…and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.” That is the day of Christ, when He comes all the way back to earth again. The blessed hope is one event, and the glorious appearing of our Lord is another. The blessed hope is the Lord's coming in the air to take out His saved sheep, and the day of the Lord is when He comes back and completely puts His enemies under His feet. He shall destroy them with the brightness of His coming. The day of Christ is at hand.
The Apostle Paul told the church at Thessalonica of the Lord’s return in the air to receive us. They started looking for Him and Paul began to tell them of things to come. He said, first, we will be gathered together unto Him and then the day of Christ is going to come.
II
Thessalonians 2:3, “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day
shall not come [meaning the day of Christ] except
there come a falling away first,…” There
will be an apostasy, there shall be a departing from the faith giving heed to
seducing spirits. There must be a
falling away first, “…and that man of sin be revealed…” If you will compare that to the
rapture, it does not make sense.
However, when you talk about the day of Christ, the glorious appearing
of our Lord, the Bible says there must be a falling away. Then the man of sin shall be revealed and
Christ will destroy him at His glorious appearing. The man of sin is the antichrist. Verse 4, “Who opposeth and exalteth
himself above all that is called God,…” That
is what the antichrist will do. “…or
that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the
Verses
5-6, “Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you
these things? And now ye know what
withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.” The word withholdeth means to hold
down. What keeps him from being revealed
in his time? What is it that keeps the
antichrist from coming into this world today?
Why is it that the man of sin cannot take over today? The influence of the Lord's New Testament
church and the Holy Spirit working with His church is what holds the antichrist
back. Verse 7, “For the
mystery of iniquity…” or lawlessness “…doth already work:…” it is working now. The man of sin, when he comes, will have this
whole world living in sin. He will
change laws, the Bible says. Everything
he will do will be to the lust of the flesh.
If it feels good, do it; just like the attitude of today; do anything,
do not worry about God. “For the
mystery of iniquity doth already work:
only he…” The He here
is the Holy Spirit. “only he
who now letteth will let,…” The
word letteth is exactly the same Greek word translated withholdeth. He who holdeth, will hold him back. “…until he be taken out of the way.” The antichrist cannot come until after the
rapture. Our gathering together unto Him
is the rapture. The day of Christ is
after the seven-year period of tribulation, after the antichrist rule. Jesus Christ will then take over, that is His
glorious appearing. That is when He will
destroy the antichrist with the brightness of His coming. The
Holy Spirit and the Lord's New Testament church are holding down the
antichrist, so that he cannot rule. He
is not more powerful than the Holy Spirit.
After our gathering together unto Him, that wicked one shall be
revealed; that is the antichrist, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit
of His mouth. Revelation l9:l5, “And
out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the
nations:…” Verse 20, “And
the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles
before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the
beast, and them that worshipped his image.
These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.”
John 12:48, “He that rejecteth me, and
receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken,
the same shall judge him in the last day.” There is going to be a judgment. Therefore, God has placed the Jews back in
their own land, where they will go through the seven years of tribulation. The King will then come and they shall look
upon Him whom they have pierced.
Colossians 2:16, “Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days.” The word days in this verse is in italics, which means the translator has added it. It simply means “of the sabbath.” Verse 17, “Which are a shadow of things to come;…” A shadow reveals what the truth is, or it is a type of that which is to come. The seventh day was set apart, and hallowed unto the Lord. In it God shall do no work and be refreshed. It is a shadow of the one thousand year reign where we will cease from our work, and enjoy the fruits of our labor; God will reward us. It will be hallowed unto the Lord. Hosea 6:1-2, “Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.” That two days represents two thousand years.
John
3:31-32 “He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the
earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is
above all. And what he hath seen and
heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony.” Jesus was rejected by the Jews. John 4:3-4, “He left Judaea, and
departed again into
Verse
4l-43, “And many more believed because of his own word;” He
turned from the Jews, went to the Gentiles, and many more believed by the
preaching of the word. “And said unto
the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him
ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the
world. Now after two days he departed
thence, and went into
Matthew l6:28, “Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.” Chapter l7:1-8, “And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him. Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him. And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid. And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be not afraid. And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only.” This was a shadow of what the kingdom would be like after six days.
Luke 9:32 is a statement made on the same teaching, the mount of transfiguration. “But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep: and when they were awake, they saw his glory…” Jesus gave them a glimpse of His glory to come.
I believe that I have proven to you, with God’s help, that He hath declared the end from the beginning. I believe God is working in six thousand years. He set this timetable in the very beginning and it is almost over. Seeing that we see the fulfillment of these scriptures today, we need to live soberly and righteously and godly. We need to be praying, to be putting the Lord first in our lives, and we need to assemble more and more. We need to go out and witness to other people; we need to be living our lives for the Lord.
I am not trying to set the day nor the hour; I am trying to show you the closeness of His coming. Are you ready to meet Him? He could come today. Be watching, be ready.
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