THE END TIMES ACCORDING TO JESUS PART
2 - 23 public schools in Baltimore Have Failed Students - Centrifuge Machines
at the Natanz Nuclear Site Blown Up - ASBURY REVIVAL CONTINUES – JULIE Green Ministries
– A Darkness is Coming - Next Step For Apostate Churches - AMERICAN MILITARY
NEWS - Mel K & Writer Christopher G. Adamo and more.
Researched & Comments by Pastor
Gary Boyd
Feb. 14th 2023
JULIE GREEN MINISTRIES: A DARKNESS IS
COMING THAT NO MAN CAN SEE – Feb. 14th 2023 - https://rumble.com/v29hj5w-a-darkness-is-coming-that-no-man-can-see.html?mref=6zof&mrefc=2
New ShariRaye: Shocking 2/14/23 >
POTUS – SOTU - Tuesday, February 14, 2023 13:57 - https://beforeitsnews.com/prophecy/2023/02/new-shariraye-shocking-21423-potus-sotu-2538321.html
US MILITARY NEWS: Restored Republic
via a GCR - By Divina Ellisson - 14
February, 2023 - https://theusmilitarynews.com/restored-republic-via-a-gcr-update-as-of-february-14-2023/
MAIL ONLINE: Where ARE things going
wrong? Damning report finds there are 23 public schools in Baltimore where NONE
of the children understand basic math - as parents blame Dem-led city's 'fraud
and corruption' - Project Baltimore analyzed school test results, and published
the conclusions - The team found catastrophic failings at 23 schools - 10 high
schools, eight elementaries, three Middle/High schools and two
Elementary/Middle schools - In the 23 schools, not one student passed their
grade level math: a Baltimore parent on Monday said she was angry at the
failures - By HARRIET ALEXANDER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM - PUBLISHED: 02:20 EST, 14
February 2023 - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11747209/Report-finds-23-public-schools-Baltimore-NONE-children-understand-basic-math.html
(Sales) Taxation is Theft - Tuesday, February
14, 2023 9:25 - A group of House Republicans is supporting legislation that
would replace federal income, payroll, estate, and gift taxes with a 30 percent
national sales tax. The bill also eliminates the Internal Revenue Service,
giving states the responsibility to collect the sales tax and send the revenue
to DC. https://beforeitsnews.com/survival/2023/02/sales-taxation-is-theft-2787803.html
Breaking! UFO Pentagon Plot Exposed
as Deep State Pushes for War With China and Russia - Redacted Video - Tuesday,
February 14, 2023 2:15 - The deep state part of the Pentagon has been laying
the groundwork to use a catalyst for war. The globalists spent all weekend
scaring us about UFO attacks worldwide and trying to prepare us for a major
confrontation with China and Russia. We are watching a disinformation campaign
of the highest order being carried out right before our eyes. https://beforeitsnews.com/international/2023/02/breaking-ufo-pentagon-plot-exposed-as-deep-state-pushes-for-war-with-china-and-russia-redacted-2510898.html
Ohio Train Derailment: Catholic
diocese prays as concern about hazardous fumes rises - Tuesday, February 14,
2023 8:01 - An early February train derailment in rural Ohio led to a major
ecological disaster after hazardous materials caused a massive fire and smoke
plume, which prompted widespread evacuations.The roughly 150-car Norfolk
Southern train derailed near the town of East Palestine, about an hour
northwest of Pittsburgh, on Feb. 3. Twenty of the cars were carrying hazardous
materials, including vinyl chloride, and caught fire, according to the
Environmental Protection Agency. https://beforeitsnews.com/religion/2023/02/ohio-train-derailment-catholic-diocese-prays-as-concern-about-hazardous-fumes-rises-2567947.html
Whitney – setting the record straight
- Tuesday, February 14, 2023 9:17 - The point we are trying to make is simple:
The war in Ukraine was not launched by a tyrannical Russian leader (Putin) bent
on rebuilding the Soviet Empire. That narrative is a fraud that was cobbled
together by neocon spin-meisters trying to build public support for a war with
Russia. The facts I am presenting here can be identified on a map where the
actual explosions took place and were then recorded by officials whose job was
to fulfill that very task. https://beforeitsnews.com/eu/2023/02/whitney-setting-the-record-straight-2700389.html
ALL ISRAEL NEWS: Israel stopped
Syrian and Iraqi nuclear ambitions. Is Iran next? – By Arlene Bridges Samuels |
February 14, 2023 - Centrifuge machines at the Natanz nuclear site US
intelligence sources say an explosion destroyed the power that supplies the
advanced centrifuges. Debates about nuclear weapons, Chinese spy balloons,
Abrams tanks and war permeate the news cycle with alarming facts and theories.
Missing in action is the recognition of both Israel’s past role to ensure that
Iraq and Syria did not join the nuclear club – and the danger posed by Iran’s
current Islamic regime…. https://allisrael.com/israel-stopped-syrian-and-iraqi-nuclear-ambitions-is-iran-next
ASBURY REVIVAL CONTINUES IN AN
OUTPOURING OF GOD'S LOVE - Aimee Herd : Feb 13, 2023 Breaking Christian News - "I had
experienced God before and I would be on fire for a month or two but then it
would fade and I would fall back into my old ways…Then Wednesday happened and I
have been changed forever. I have confessed everything that I have ever done,
and since I did that I have felt so free. There were people I have never met
who were praying over me and shared their stories with me. I have been
surrounded by a community of brothers who will push me to seek God with my
whole heart. He will reign forever and ever. And I will see my God one day in
Heaven." -Kade Edler - https://www.breakingchristiannews.com/articles/display_art.html?ID=36927
HARBINGER DAILY - Next Step For
Apostate Churches: Conforming God To Their Gender Agenda – By David Fiorazo - February
13, 2023 - Even before the formation of the early church, Jesus taught his
disciples to pray to “our Father in heaven (Luke 11:1-4).” He also said that “I
and the Father are one (John 10:30).” But don’t let God stop the Episcopal
Church from bowing before the altar of DEI and making sure prayers align with
an inclusive, gender-neutral God. You heard that right. Diversity, Equity, and
Inclusion in the apostate modern church declares God can’t be male because he
doesn’t have a gender. https://harbingersdaily.com/next-step-for-apostate-churches-conforming-god-to-their-gender-agenda/
AMERICAN MILITARY NEWS: Ukraine,
Russia exchange prisoners; Kyiv recovers bodies of foreign humanitarian
volunteers - Russia and Ukraine on February 4 announced an exchange of
prisoners that led to the release of 63 Russians and 116 Ukrainians and the
return of the bodies of two foreign volunteers who were involved in
humanitarian work in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk. https://americanmilitarynews.com/2023/02/ukraine-russia-exchange-
prisoners-kyiv-recovers-bodies-of-foreign-humanitarian-volunteers/?mc_cid=09601a35e7&mc_eid=d4a810d349
Mel K & Writer Christopher G.
Adamo | Rules for Defeating Radicals | 2-11-23 - https://rumble.com/v2917qk-mel-k-and-writer-christopher-g.-adamo-rules-for-defeating-radicals-2-11-23.html?mref=6zof&mc=dgip3&ep=1
World Health Organization Continues
To Put Mad Scientists in Charge Of Global Health, Promoting Medical Fascism - Tuesday,
February 14, 2023 10:19 – (Comment: The way to rid we the people of these mad
scientists is to cut their funding. Trump cut their funding when he was
President. Now after the stolen election the Obama/biden communist regime has
resumed funding. Time for Congress to act now the Republicans control the
House.) https://beforeitsnews.com/health/2023/02/world-health-organization-continues-to-put-mad-scientists-in-charge-of-global-health-promoting-medical-fascism-3049152.html
New York Man and Alabama Woman
Sentenced for Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS – Feb. 3rd
2023 - James Bradley, aka Abdullah, 21, of the Bronx, New York, and Arwa
Muthana, 30, of Hoover, Alabama, were sentenced to 11 years in prison followed
by 10 years of supervised release and nine years in prison followed by 10 years
of supervised release, respectively, for attempting to provide material support
to a designated foreign terrorist organization, the Islamic State of Iraq and
al-Sham (ISIS). https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/new-york-man-and-alabama-woman-sentenced-attempting-provide-material-support-isis
By Jack Kelley Monday June 21st, 2021
Researched by Pastor Gary Boyd
Feb. 14th 2023
“Then you will be handed over to be
persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of
me. At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate
each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.
Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but he
who stands firm to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will
be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end
will come. (Matt 24:9-14)
The words here are very similar to
those in Luke 21:20-24 covered in Part 1, but in Matthew, the focus is clearly
the End Times. It helps to remember that
verses 4-14 are an overview of the End Times that cover the period from the
beginning of the birth pangs to the 2nd Coming.
Believers will be severely persecuted
at the End of the Age (Matthew’s version) just like they were at the beginning
(Luke’s version) and because Tribulation believers are not promised Eternal
Security like the Church was, many will turn away from the faith due to the
intense persecution. Just before the
Lord’s return, the Good News will be preached in every nation to prepare the people
of Earth for His coming and to deny them a plausible excuse for rejecting Him,
or pleading ignorance.
“So when you see standing in the holy
place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’ spoken of through the prophet
Daniel–let the reader understand– then let those who are in Judea flee to the
mountains. Let no one on the roof of his house go down to take anything out of
the house. Let no one in the field go back to get his cloak. How dreadful it
will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! Pray that your
flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath. For then there will be
great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now–and never
to be equaled again. (Matt 24:15-21)
In this portion, the Lord backed up
to pinpoint the beginning of the Great Tribulation, a time of judgment whose
very name comes from here (translated in the NIV as great distress), one that
will surpass anything the world has ever seen. The Prophet Daniel had written
of a time in the future when the Temple would be desecrated by an event he
called “the Abomination that causes Desolation” (Daniel 9:24-27) and the Lord
was now informing them that this event would trigger the Great Tribulation.
Since Daniel’s time, something like
it had only happened once. In 168 BC the Syrian Ruler Antiochus Epiphanes (the
name means God made manifest), after muscling his way into Israel, seized the
Temple and converted it to pagan worship. He erected a statue of Zeus in the
Holy Place in his own likeness, requiring everyone to bow down before it on
pain of death. The Jews called this desecration the Abomination that causes
Desolation, borrowing language from Daniel 9:27. It so angered them that they
rose up in arms against the Syrian invaders. The 3 1/2 year long Maccabean
Revolt, as it was called, resulted in the Syrians’ expulsion from Israel and a
Temple cleansing and re-dedication ceremony that’s still memorialized annually
in the Feast of Chanukkah.
Today, students of the End Times see
a frighteningly clear model of the Great Tribulation in the Maccabean Revolt,
with a foreign invader calling himself God and demanding worship, a Temple
desecration, and unbelievable persecution ending in a 3 1/2-year war of
liberation. As we’ll see, that’s just what the Lord intended in mentioning
Daniel’s Prophecy.
193 years after the Maccabean Revolt,
Jesus spoke of the Abomination that causes Desolation as something still in the
future. And a careful reading of his 70 weeks prophecy shows that Daniel placed
it in the middle of the 70th week, long after both the Messiah’s arrival and
rejection, and the destruction of the city and sanctuary. Since nothing like
this has happened since the Lord gave His warning, it means that one day soon
another foreign invader will muscle his way into Israel, calling himself God and
demanding worship. There’ll be another Temple desecration, and more
unbelievable persecution ending in another war of liberation, only this time
the entire planet will be affected, not just Israel. According to Daniel, it
will begin half way through the last 7 years of human history establishing its
duration as 3 1/2 years just like it’s earlier model. In 2 Thes 2:4 Paul
expanded Daniel’s account, connecting it to the antichrist at the End of the
Age. These things confirm that the sacrilege that kicked off the Maccabean
Revolt serves as a preview to help people recognize the sacrilege that will
kick off the Great Tribulation. (See also Rev. 13:14-17)
There are three factors here that
underscore the “Jewishness” of the Lord’s warning:
First there will be a desecration of
their Temple, second the warning is given specifically to those in Judea, the
region of Jerusalem in Israel, and third, there’s an admonition to pray that it
won’t happen on the Sabbath, a day when Jewish law forbids traveling.
Clearly, the Lord was saying that
there will be a nation of Jewish people observing His Law in Israel at the End
of the Age and they will have rebuilt their Temple prior to His return.
If those days had not been cut short,
no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be
shortened. At that time if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or,
‘There he is!’ do not believe it. For false Christs and false prophets will
appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect–if that
were possible. See, I have told you ahead of time.
“So if anyone tells you, ‘There he
is, out in the desert,’ do not go out; or, ‘Here he is, in the inner rooms,’ do
not believe it. For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in
the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. Wherever there is a carcass,
there the vultures will gather. (Matt. 24:22-28)
The Great Tribulation is the most
specifically documented span of time in all of Scripture. In one place we’re told
it’s 3 1/2 years long (time, times and half a time; one year plus two years
plus half a year as in Rev. 12:14), in another, 42 months (Rev. 11:2) and in
still another, 1260 days (Rev.12:6). Use the original calendar for Earth, 12
months of 30 days each for a 360 day year, and you find all three measurements
identical from a time standpoint. Moreover, there isn’t a single hint anywhere
that it will be of a shorter duration. Most scholars who read the passage above
literally, conclude that the phrase cut short means that for the sake of His
elect the Lord will step in on the 1260th day and put an end to the warfare
instead of letting it run to its logical conclusion; the destruction of every
human on the planet.
Use the original calendar for Earth,
12 months of 30 days each for a 360 day year, and you find all three
measurements identical from a time standpoint. Moreover, there isn’t a single
hint anywhere that it will be of a shorter duration. Most scholars who read the
passage above literally, conclude that the phrase cut short means that for the
sake of His elect the Lord will step in on the 1260th day and put an end to the
warfare instead of letting it run to its logical conclusion; the destruction of
every human on the planet.
“Immediately after the distress of
those days, ” ‘the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light;
the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’ At
that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the
nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the
clouds of the sky, with power and great glory. And he will send his angels with
a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from
one end of the heavens to the other. (Matt.24:29-31)
In bringing the Great Tribulation to
an end, the Lord cause the Sun and Moon to be darkened. Then His sign will
appear in the sky, and finally He Himself will come in power and glory just as
He promised Caiaphas, the High Priest, at His trial 2000 years ago (Matt.
26:64). All the nations will mourn because His appearance rings the closing
bell for the Age of Grace. Too late, the people of Earth will realize that He
is just Who He’s always claimed to be, and they’ve missed their last chance at
salvation.
At His signal, His angels will gather
His elect (believers) from all over Heaven to return with Him to Earth to
establish His Kingdom. This is one of two vague hints in the Olivet Discourse
that there will be a body of believers in Heaven awaiting His 2nd coming. According to Mark’s account, believers on
earth will also be summoned (Mark 13:27) to witness His triumphant return.
“Now learn this lesson from the fig
tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer
is near. Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near,
right at the door. I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not
pass away until all these things have happened. Heaven and earth will pass
away, but my words will never pass away. (Matt. 24:32-36)
The fig tree is the last to bud, so
when it does we know Summer’s almost here. Through His disciples, the Lord told
the people on Earth at the End of the Age that when all these things begin to
happen, it means the end is very near. Indeed, of the 6000-year history of Man,
only 3 1/2 will remain.
The Greek word translated generation
also means race and can be interpreted as the Lord’s promise that the Jewish
race wouldn’t be extinguished before the End comes. And that’s remarkably true.
The vicious and oft-repeated attempts to rid the world of Jewish people have
all failed, and Israel has risen from the grave after a 2000-year absence to
once again become the focus of world attention.
Yet there’s also a sense in which the
Lord’s promise can be rendered, “I tell you the truth, the generation that sees
the beginning of these signs will also see their culmination.” In other words,
they will all be concluded during the lifetimes of those being born as they
begin. There’s precedent for this too. All the prophecies concerning the Lord’s
first visit were fulfilled within the lifespan of the generation into which He
was born.
Please note that if this view is the
correct one, as I believe it to be, the Lord didn’t promise that, once they
begin, all End Times prophecies would be fulfilled before the next generation
is born, but only that they would be fulfilled during the lifetimes of those
being born at their commencement. A Biblical generation is nominally 40 years,
but a lifetime is more like 70-80 years (Psalm 90:10). The folks who added 40
years to Israel’s 1948 rebirth and predicted the Rapture would happen in 1988
were off on two counts.
1) They should have added a lifetime,
not the length of a biblical generation, and
2) It’s the 2nd Coming that will
happen within a lifetime of the first signs. The Rapture could happen at any
time prior to that.
If we’re still here next week, we’ll
finish up this series and show you why those who are looking for signs of the
Rapture of the Church in the Olivet Discourse are looking in the wrong place.
Until then, if you listen closely, you can almost hear the footsteps of the
Messiah.
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