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6-24-2018 Weekly Message
The Meditation of the Week: Psalms 50:1-23
Text: Daniel 12:1-13
The title of the Word: Upcoming Rapture and the Great Tribulation

Long ago, God specifically selected Daniel to prophesy in detail the rising and falling of the kingdoms of all the world from the Babylonian kingdom. In the end, the Roman Empire collapsed and showed that the world would end when the ten kingdoms appear. He has shown that all the kingdoms ruled by man in the end will be destroyed and ended, just as man is from man’s head to his toes.

Unto Daniel who had been taken prisoner by Babylon, God poured out the spirit of wisdom, from the time of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to King Cyrus of Persia, the king of Darius of the Media. He was recognized as the servant of God.

At the end of Daniel’s final chapter, Daniel eventually prophesied that Michael would finally rise. The heavenly Michael, the archangel, testified that the Jews will be persecuted from the nations during the great tribulation and that he shall appear to save them when they are in  suffering.

Among the many Jews who were killed at that time, he prophesied that all those recorded in the book would be saved. He also witnessed beforehand that many who sleep in the dust of death would wake up to receive eternal life, and some will be shameful and insulted. Also, wise men among the saved will shine like the light of the sky, and those who turn many into righteousness shall shine like stars forever and ever.

But he told Daniel to close the book and seal it until the end because the things that will be done in the coming years are to be made after thousands of years. The last time, when the time is coming to pass, destroys the world, and destroys the devil that ruled it through sin, death and curse, so that only the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ who is God shall stand in the end forever.

God, who had told Daniel not to open the word but to seal it, finally opened it to the apostle John through the resurrected Jesus Christ. It is the book of Revelation that records the words that have been opened. God spoke about what Michael, speaking through Daniel, would do:
” And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, 8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. 9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. “(Revelation 12: 7-9).

Jesus said to the Jewish disciples, “The will of the Father will be done on earth as in heaven.” And finally Satan will be cast out of heaven, and the will of God will be fulfilled in heaven. And when he is cast out from the earth and thrown into the eternal fiery pond, God’s will is done on earth. The Apostle John testified about what will happen when God’s will is done on earth:
”  And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.“ (Revelation 20:10)

Satan, the devil, to achieve the New World Order will persecute the people of Israel through the Antichrist unto death. And Satan that shall be cast out of heaven will plan to destroy the people of Israel not leaving one of them working together with Antichrist and the false prophet against the kingdom of God as Hitler had done before.   At this time, there shall be the Great Tribulation on the earth. Thus, in order to save the people of God, Michael is to be raised from heaven:

 ” Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. “(Revelation 12:12)

God will prepare two wings of a great eagle for the remnant of the Jews. God will leave America to the end and move the Jews to Petra, south of the Dead Sea and feed them for three and a half years. God will severely judge the world ruled by Antichrist for three and a half years. Finally, the Lord Jesus Christ will come as the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, and will judge, and seek the remnant of Israel to be his people, to be a priesthood in this earth. At this time, as God had planned, the dispensation, that is, things in heaven, things in the earth, and things in himself, shall be  made to bring all things together in Christ (Eph. 1:10). In other words, all the nations ruled by those who were on this earth shall be gone, and only the Lord Jesus Christ shall be  King of Kings.

But before the Great Tribulation comes, the children of God who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ shall be resurrected to be caught up into the heaven whether they are Jews or Gentiles without discrimination. When there is the tribulation over the earth for seven years, there shalll be a wedding ceremony in Heaven to make the Church of God raptured to become the bride of Christ:
” Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. 8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. (Rev. 19: 7-8)

The man who said this to John said:
“ Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God. “(Rev. 19: 9)

It was the thing that shall happen in the long time future for Daniel. But for us, it shall be the days in near future.  The man in white linen told Daniel, at the end of time, many shall be clean and purified as white and tried.. But the wicked will go astray, and none of the wicked will understand, but the wise will understand. We can see that it is done according to these words when we look at the last time we live.

An angel appeared to John the Apostle, saying, ” He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. “(John 22:11)

When he fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed these things to the apostle John, he said:
”   See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.” (Rev. 22: 9)
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The opening of the book of Daniel to the Apostle John reveals the possibility of John’s meeting with Daniel who sealed the book  resurrected when Jesus rose again.

Apostle John testified about what God’s children should do in the near future when Michael is about to rise:
” Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. “(1 John 3: 2-3)

God told Daniel that through the Internet in the future, we shall be entering huge information in a small smart phone, so that our global knowledge will be overflowing,

” even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.” (Daniel 12: 4)
Amen! Come, Lord Jesus! Hallelujah!