7-1-2018 Weekly Message The Meditations of the Week: Psalm 37: 1-40 Text: Daniel 9: 20-27 The title of the book: The appearance of Antichrist and great tribulation of 7 years
God always speaks to His servants for them to understand to fulfill His will after a long time. To realize God’s timetable, we need to know the timetable given through God’s Word. It is impossible to realize at all by the calendar that man made. This is why we must study the Bible in details.
Let’s take a closer look at the 70 weeks in the main passage. There are prophecies in God’s Word. Prophecy is the thing to be fulfilled in the future. Future thing will be done in the future time, and this is done by God’s timetable. The Bible is God’s timetable. Therefore, when we hear the words of God, we can see what God’s time is like. The mysterious will of God is the dispensation of fullness of times. There are times to start and to end. We must learn the timetable of God through this words.
So we have to set our 60, 70, 80, and 100 years of physical life into the time to God’s time But so many people are praying for the time of God to fit to their own timetable. That is why these people are easy to be discouraged. Those who adjust to God’s timetable can always live a day in the Spirit like a thousand years, a thousand years as a day. So, in the end, the word “time” comes out in the Bible, and the word “the week” also refers to the month, the year, a time, times, or half a time. . We can see that these units of time appears in the Bible. And the unit of times must be understood in its length on the same basis. What is the basis? For example, in Numbers 14:33, saying, “Bear your whoredoms.” The people of Israel complained and sinned, and the complaining sin is the greatest sin, saying “God, I have trouble in my time, so please solve it according to my time.” This is complaint and grumbling . How many Christians do not grumble, not complain, and always appreciate? The reason is simple: they did not put us in God’s timetable.
So when they complained, God said to them have to wander in the wilderness for 40 years counting 40 days as 40 years. Besides Joshua and Caleb, the first generation of the people of Israel died in the wilderness. Through this fact, God sees a day as a year. We must see a day as a thousand years, and a thousand years as a day through the Words of God. 70 weeks cannot be known without looking at this angle from this angle. If you think 70 weeks is actually 70, it is only a few months a year. So, God knows 40 days is 40 years.
70 weeks is 70 times of week. So 70 weeks is 490 years. If we look at a day in 490 days as a year, it is 490 years. In this way, the Bible is understood. However, it is said that 70 years is 490 years. One of the most important things we need to know is that God’s timetable is set to Israel. . The eyes of God are in the city of Jerusalem. So when Jerusalem is fully restored and Israel is fully restored, the world will end.
But it will be seven weeks and sixty – two weeks from the time of the command to restore and build Jerusalem to the Messiah ruler. . Then, in 483 years of 70 weeks, a ruler will come out. Jesus Christ, the ruler of righteousness, will come to this land. One year in the Bible is 360 days. So, when the Lord Jesus entered into Jerusalem, it was fulfilled 69 weeks that is 483 years. In the end, Jesus entered on a donkey as the ruler. But people did not know him and killed him crucifying on the cross. The religious leaders knew Jesus as the ruler
Now 69 weeks out of 70 weeks are over and only one week remain that is seven years. However, we have to understand when this week that is 7 years comes, . But if that week were connected right after 69 weeks, the world is already over.
But it is not over yet. so we need to know what this time gap is. It came to an end when the Lord came and died on the cross and was raised to the heaven and sent the Holy Spirit, and he established the church of God, not Israel, in this land. When God restores Israel, Apostle Paul testified about God’s plan before the tribulation, for seven years, come:
” According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love” (Ephesians 1: 4)
Israel is the God’s-chosen people, but God intended to adopt his children through Jesus Christ before the foundation of the earth. So when the Holy Spirit comes, those who repent and receive Jesus Christ receive the Holy Spirit and are no longer the spirit of servant, but receive the Spirit of the Son, calling God Abba the Father. That is why God made it for 2,000 years to make God’s children before the last Era appeared. This is what we call the church age or the grace age.
However, soon after the end of the age of grace and the beginning of the tribulation for seven years, the Antichrist will appear. The Bible tells us what he will do:
” And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make itdesolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. “(Dan 9:27)
In the middle of seven years, sacrifices and oblation are banned and abomination shall be spread. He will sit in the temple saying ” I am God.” He confirm the covenant for a week. This is the 70th that is 7years. After 69 weeks pass by spoken to Daniel, one week, after all, seven years is going to pass. The Antichrist makes a peace agreement with Israel in the early days of the tribulation. Then, in the midst of it, he will destroy the covenant, forbid sacrifices and offerings to God, and ask them to give it to himself saying, “I am God,” Eventually, this covenant will be destroyed by the Antichrist himself in the middle of the Tribulation. That is why, in the end, we know that Israel is deceived. And the covenant of Antichrist is not with the whole Jew, but with many people. That is why people follow the Antichrist.
Jesus told the unbelieving Jews that in the future they would receive the Antichrist:
” I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.“ (John 5:43)
Jesus spoke beforehand about what they should do when they find out that they are deceived by the Antichrist in the tribulation:
” When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
16Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
… For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened. “(Matthew 24:15, 16, 21, 22)
Apostle Paul testified of the rapture of the saints, the day of Christ and the appearance of the Antichrist:
” 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.
3Let 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;
4Who 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 ” (2 Thessalonians 2: 2-4)
As the Antichrist appears, the day of Christ, the day of Rapture, will come, and the last seven years, the tribulation will come. The world will end when the last week is over, and the kingdom of the Father, which Jesus said in the seventh thousand years, will stand on this earth. God has set all the timetables with his number seven.