Participants: John Lomacang
Series Code: 12POP
Program Code: 12POP000015
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00:47 Welcome once again to Pillars of Prophecy
00:49 during Spring Camp Meeting for 3ABN the year 2012. 00:54 And we are praising the Lord. 00:56 And we're praising the Lord because we're hearing 00:57 the preaching of the Word. Amen? 00:59 Amen. Amen. We have a wonderful crowd here 01:01 that has again come from different parts 01:04 of the United States and from other places of the world. 01:07 We praise the Lord that now we are on chapter 9 01:11 of the book of Daniel... a very powerful chapter. 01:14 And I believe you're going to be blessed as the speaker 01:17 for this hour is Pastor John Lomacang 01:20 who many of you know from the program House Calls. 01:24 Very... Program on demand on 3ABN. 01:28 Many people write their questions in. 01:30 And Pastor John Lomacang is also the pastor of 01:32 the Thompsonville Seventh- day Adventist church. 01:34 But one thing you will notice is that he loves Jesus Christ 01:38 and he wants the message of the Bible to come clear and powerful 01:43 to the people. So therefore he has prepared 01:46 through hours of study plus a lot of prayer. 01:49 And we know that the Lord will bless because he's depending 01:53 totally on the Holy Spirit. Amen. 01:55 We are going to... Before Pastor John Lomacang speaks 01:58 we have a beautiful hymn. Reggie was sharing some of the 02:02 words with me. I never heard it before. 02:04 But you're going to be blessed by the message in song. 02:07 It is entitled Hold On. 02:09 Before that we're going to have prayer. 02:12 And we'd like to ask you to stand. 02:15 Please stand. And we're going to pray and ask for the Lord to 02:17 bless this program with the Holy Spirit. 02:21 Let us pray together. 02:23 Our loving heavenly Father, 02:25 we thank you, Lord, that we can study the scriptures together. 02:30 Not only those of us here can be blessed but people 02:33 all over the world. We pray, Lord, for Your servant 02:36 Pastor John Lomacang. 02:39 We pray, Lord, that that which he has studied 02:43 will be fresh upon his mind. 02:45 But we also pray, Lord, that every word will come 02:49 from Your throne of grace. 02:51 We pray that the words will be clear 02:53 and that the message will be understood. 02:56 We pray that if need be - just as You sent to Daniel - 02:59 You will send angels to help us understand. 03:03 We pray, heavenly Father, for a blessed experience. 03:08 We ask for Your name to be glorified. 03:11 In Jesus' name, Amen. Amen! 03:15 It's my privilege to introduce once again 03:17 Bro. Reggie Smith. The name of the song is Hold On. 03:22 And after this you will hear the preaching of God's Word 03:25 and His servant John Lomacang. May the Lord bless. 03:45 You might be clinging to the last 03:50 thread of hope in your heart. 03:57 You might be wond'rin 04:00 if God even knows 04:04 who you are. 04:09 So tired of waiting for your best life to begin 04:17 and now you're thinkin' 'bout 04:20 just giving up on Him. 04:26 Hold on a little longer, 04:31 hold on a little stronger. 04:34 The night will pass, the pain won't last. 04:39 Hope is never gone. 04:42 Hold on... and while you're waiting 04:47 press on and keep on prayin' 04:50 till you're back 04:52 to the place where you belong. 04:58 Trust Jesus 05:02 and hold on. 05:06 He promised He would never leave you, 05:11 you are not alone. 05:15 No matter where you are right now 05:19 you're never far from home. 05:22 So don't give up and don't give in 05:27 and don't think you can't 05:29 smile again. 05:34 Hold to God's unchanging hand. 05:41 Hold to God's 05:44 unchanging hand. 05:48 Hold on a little longer, 05:52 hold on a little stronger 05:56 till you're back to the place 05:59 where you belong. 06:03 Trust Jesus 06:07 and hold on 06:16 till you're back to the place where you 06:21 belong. 06:24 Trust Jesus 06:27 and hold on. 06:39 Just hold on! 06:53 Amen. 07:00 Is that powerful or what? 07:02 Amen! Hold on. 07:04 So I think you'd better do what Reggie just suggested... 07:09 hold on... because we're about to open a book in... 07:12 in the Bible that is probably one of the central reasons 07:18 why confusion and truth often have a collision. 07:24 I'd like you to bow your heads with me as we ask the Lord 07:27 to lead. He has been leading all weekend long, 07:29 but we never take for granted whenever we stand 07:32 where only God has the right to stand. 07:37 Heavenly Father, we pray that right now 07:39 You would take this message 07:42 that You have given me the responsibility to work on 07:46 and now empower it, Father, to reach the hearts and lives 07:50 of those watching and listening and those even under the power 07:55 of Your presence right here. 07:59 Accomplish Your purpose I pray. 08:01 In Jesus' precious name, Amen. 08:05 Now it is on Daniel 9. 08:09 Let me just say something before I take off. 08:14 I don't mean I'm going to run off the stage. 08:17 I'm going to be standing still running. 08:20 That's even more powerful. 08:24 This is probably... if you could think of prophecies 08:29 in the Bible... this is probably one of the single-most 08:32 powerful prophecies confirming the divinity of Jesus: 08:36 Daniel chapter 9. 08:39 And so I thought about what to title it. 08:41 Rather than just saying the 70 weeks or the 490 years 08:45 or time prophecy I decided to entitle that 08:48 Timing Is Everything. 08:51 Timing IS everything. If it were not so, 08:53 we would not have prophecy. As a matter of fact, 08:56 the very nature of prophecy is to keep us in sync 08:59 with heaven's agenda. 09:01 Timing is everything. 09:03 Isaiah the prophet tells us that time... 09:05 and I paraphrase what he said... 09:07 he said "time is what prevents everything from happening 09:11 at once. " Now you think about that. 09:14 That's in fact true. 09:15 A man by the name of Charles Caleb Colton said 09:19 "Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of all things. " 09:25 Listen carefully. He said for example: 09:28 "The past is gone. The future has not yet come. 09:31 The present becomes the past even while we attempt to use it. 09:36 And like a flash of lightning the time that we thought 09:39 we had expires. " 09:42 Timing is everything. 09:44 Time motivated David the prophet to say - 09:47 or David the patriarch to say - 09:48 "Teach us to number our days that we may gain a heart of 09:54 wisdom. " Timing is everything. 09:57 When you think of that text it sounds like David is saying 10:00 that we ought to count our days. 10:02 But the truth of the matter is David is saying 10:04 we ought to make our days count 10:06 because we don't have a whole lot of them. 10:09 I've been losing the race 10:11 and I think some of you have been following me. 10:13 I go to the Facebook page sometimes and I... 10:15 I see that there was a time my hair was completely jet black. 10:20 Then there was a time when it was partially black and grey. 10:23 But at least the argument over whether or not my hair 10:26 is real has been settled. 10:33 Time has a way of making things that are really ridiculous 10:36 irrelevant as they often always were. 10:39 But God has given us time. 10:41 Time is the vehicle of prophecy, 10:44 and prophecy is the passenger of time. 10:48 Prophecy relies on time to unfold. 10:51 Prophecy forces us to wait for something 10:53 that doesn't wait for us 10:56 if in fact it is true that "time waits for no one. " 11:00 While Daniel was serving under Darius the Mede 11:04 he was instantly reminded of the captivity of his people 11:09 the Israelities and the reason why they were in captivity. 11:13 And the Lord spoke these words to him that he recorded 11:17 in a book that actually existed: Daniel 9 and verse 2. 11:21 Today if you are fast you can turn there, 11:23 but if not all the slides are going to be on the screen. 11:25 We have charts and all. And let me encourage you: 11:27 this is a serious topic that you want to get. 11:31 Let me tell you why. 11:33 Daniel 9 that I'm going to cover today 11:35 is going to be talking about the complete fulfillment 11:38 of every aspect of the 70-week prophecy 11:40 or the 490-year prophecy. 11:43 But last year in September I did a 5-part series 11:47 called Final Events. 11:49 And three of those parts dealt with the misinterpretation 11:52 of Daniel 9. 11:54 It even covers where the rapture theory came from. 11:56 Who began the rapture theory... 11:59 all the contributors to the rapture theory. 12:01 All the way up to even the debacle that happened 12:04 a few years ago or maybe last year with Harold Camping. 12:07 It covers all the popular books. 12:09 The Late Great Planet Earth. 12:11 The entire Left Behind series by Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye. 12:15 It lets you see as one of the most recent magazines put out 12:19 that's been covering all the hype about 2012 12:22 National Geographic says well a Spectre magazine recently said 12:27 "The secret rapture is a belief that millions of Christians 12:31 embrace but they have absolutely no scriptural support for. " 12:37 National Geographic said that. 12:39 And I have a magazine I showed one of my members just recently. 12:42 It says the word "rapture" appears no place in scripture 12:45 and neither does the teaching. 12:47 But the misunderstanding of this prophecy gives it foundation. 12:50 We'll talk about where those misunderstandings came from. 12:53 But Daniel begins as he's under the rule of Darius 12:58 the Mede we read in Daniel 9 and verse 2: 13:19 You know it's amazing how something as friendly as time 13:22 when misused can become your greatest enemy. 13:25 One of the reasons why the children of Israel 13:28 were serving time is because they didn't value time. 13:32 God gave them time to serve Him 13:34 and they used time to serve themselves. 13:36 So now God gave them a definitive time - 13:38 70 years in captivity in Babylon - 13:41 and there was nothing they could do to turn back 13:43 the hands of time. Jeremiah 25:11 13:46 tells us about that prophecy of the captivity of the 13:50 children of Israel in the province of Babylon. 13:53 The Bible says: 14:10 When Daniel was in captivity he finally caught the message 14:13 that God intended time to teach him. 14:15 So instead of complaining about the time he had left 14:18 seeing that he could not shorten the 70 years 14:21 Daniel decided to use the time. 14:23 The question is: "How did he use the time? " 14:25 Daniel 9 and verse 3 records how he used the time. 14:30 Just like we should use the time we have. He said: 14:44 And from verse 4 to verse 19 Daniel prays diligently 14:49 confessing the sins of his people and confessing 14:53 his own sins and realizing the reason why he's in Babylon 14:57 is because he didn't use the time that God had given him 14:59 to serve God the way that God intended to be served. 15:04 But in the middle of Daniel's prayer 15:06 God sends a divine interruption. 15:10 Have you ever prayed and God sends a divine interruption? 15:13 Sometimes we pray and in the middle of our prayer 15:16 as we're waiting for the answer God sends the answer. 15:19 Can you say "Amen" to that? 15:21 Once God knows our hearts are willing 15:24 we don't always have to finish our prayers 15:27 to inform God of what our needs are. 15:29 He knows our needs before we ask. 15:31 But seeing the sincerity of Daniel's heart 15:34 pleading for God to forgive him and his people 15:37 God interrupts his prayer and that interruption 15:40 is recorded in Daniel 9 beginning with verse 20. 15:43 Look at the screen... this always amazes me. He says: 16:03 I like this... 16:17 That's an entire sermon right there... flying swiftly. 16:20 What do you say? 16:36 Now I want you to get this. This angel 16:39 according to what I understand was in heaven. 16:41 When Daniel began to pray God said 16:44 "Gabriel, go down and stay by the side of Daniel. " 16:48 Now I don't know how far heaven is, but if you read 16:51 the rest of the text he says: 17:03 So while one time period is winding down 17:06 God introduces another time period. 17:10 In other words, in the middle of the 70 years of captivity 17:14 God introduces the 70 weeks. 17:18 So while the captivity of the Israelites is winding down 17:21 God said: "Wait a minute. 17:23 I've got to make sure that the reason why you ended up here 17:29 does not get repeated. " 17:32 So God establishes a probationary prophecy - 17:36 a probationary prophecy - 17:40 so that He not only frees His people physically 17:44 but they are also freed spiritually. 17:49 So Daniel 9 verse 24 introduces this prophetic period. 17:54 What I call the probationary prophecy. 17:57 Notice the words of Daniel 9 verse 24: 18:09 And notice the six things. You'll see the green numbers; 18:13 follow them carefully. 18:14 As a matter of fact, say them with me: 18:36 If you're looking at this prophecy, it had to span 18:39 more than 70 literal weeks. 18:43 It had to be more than 490 days 18:46 because the arrival of the Messiah was more than 500 years 18:51 still in the future. 18:52 So God said to Daniel: "You're going to have time 18:55 to work on this one. " And that's what's nice about God. 18:57 You know, when we mess up God gives us time to work on 19:00 what we have gotten wrong. Can you say "Amen" to that? 19:02 God is not swift. God does not deal with us 19:05 according to our sins. 19:06 God is not a rush-to-judgment kind of God. 19:09 And when you look at this prophecy in hindsight 19:11 you think: "If I were the children of Israel, 19:13 I would have used my time wisely. " 19:17 But then again, how many of us are waiting till we find out 19:19 the exact date of Jesus' arrival to start acting right? 19:24 I've got to borrow that from C.A. - uh-huh. 19:33 Having the right date is not as important as 19:36 walking the right walk. 19:39 So they wanted the date, but God said: "I want the walk. 19:43 You want the date; I want the walk. " 19:44 Still more than 500 years were yet to pass. 19:47 So the prophecy of the 70 weeks would span a period of 19:51 490 years and the evidence for its length is cited 19:56 in Daniel 9 and verse 24. Notice this slide: 20:13 And the question is: to cut off from what? 20:16 There was a larger time period introduced a chapter earlier 20:23 that had to do with not only the rebuilding of Jerusalem 20:27 but all the way to the time where the final judgment 20:30 just before the coming of the Lord was to begin. 20:32 Look at that prophecy: Daniel 8 and verse 14. 20:35 Here is the larger period from which it was cut off. 20:37 The Lord said to Daniel: 20:50 So now let's look at this graphic together and begin 20:52 to build this prophecy. Notice this: 20:54 You find on the top that red bar spans the entire 2,300 day 20:58 prophecy - Daniel 8:14. 21:00 Below that you see a small red box which is the 70 weeks 21:04 of Daniel 9 beginning in verse 24. 21:06 In other words, the 70 weeks are cut off from this larger 21:10 period. The next slide shows you that it's not just 21:13 2,300 days but its 2,300 what? Years. 21:18 It's not just 490 days but it's 490 what? Years. 21:22 And we'll give you the beginning of that. In other words, 21:24 when this prophecy is understood 21:28 as God delivers it, it closes the door 21:32 to futurism, to dispensationalism, 21:35 and also to the secret rapture. 21:37 In other words, there is no secret rapture. 21:39 God does not deal with us differently from age to age. 21:43 He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. 21:48 So God gave him a time period from which to work. 21:52 But He also established the beginning date 21:55 of when the 70 weeks as well as the 2,300 years would begin. 22:01 Look at Daniel 9 and verse 25. 22:03 I like to preach but today calls for teaching. 22:06 Daniel 9 verse 25... the Lord says: 22:31 There are those that are saying that in the future - not too far 22:35 from now - that there is going to be a re-establishment 22:38 of the sacrificial system in Jerusalem and that the Lord 22:41 is going to establish His kingdom in Jerusalem. 22:43 Let me tell you something: if I were God 22:45 I wouldn't want to go to the Middle East. 22:48 Come on... anybody in here understand? 22:51 Why go to a place that there is no peace. 22:53 Jerusalem signifies peace, and when you read Revelation 22:57 Revelation talks about the New Jerusalem 23:00 not the old Jerusalem. 23:02 The old Jerusalem is the Bible land, not the holy land. 23:06 The holy land is in heaven. What do you say? Amen. 23:09 But dispensationalists have twisted the understanding of 23:12 this prophecy and many of them are looking to the Middle East 23:15 for the place where God is going to establish His kingdom, 23:17 begin to convert the Jews then convert the world. 23:22 And the secret rapture... The people all of a sudden start 23:24 disappearing from everywhere. That's not anywhere found 23:27 in scripture. But how do they get to that actual view 23:30 is a real question. There are two other dates. 23:33 How many dates did I say? Two other dates. 23:35 They are valid dates but they cannot bring the entire 23:38 70-week prophecy to its fulfillment. 23:41 If you begin with those dates you never get all the aspects 23:44 of the prophecy to come to fulfillment. 23:45 Follow very carefully. 23:47 Look at one of those incorrect dates that have scriptural 23:50 support. Here's the first one given by Cyrus. 23:52 The 70 weeks... Look at the chart right here. 23:55 The 70 weeks of Daniel 9:24... Cyrus, he gave a decree 24:01 but that was not the decree that God had intended 24:03 because the decree that Cyrus had given was for the rebuilding 24:07 of the temple - not for the complete restoration 24:10 of the Jews. And if you begin in 539 BC... 24:12 Look at that one more time. If you begin in 539 BC 24:15 and go to 40... It takes you 490 years later 24:19 and you only get... you only get to 49 BC. 24:22 You're not in AD yet. 24:24 Christ... nothing about that prophecy gets fulfilled. 24:27 Look at the next incorrect date, the next slide. 24:30 This is the next incorrect date: a decree given by Darius 24:35 also to build the temple at Jerusalem. 24:38 That began in 520 BC. 490 years later takes you simply 24:42 to 30 BC. Not enough time for the Messiah to come... 24:46 because BC means what? Before Christ. All right! 24:50 These are the two dates that rapturists often use. 24:53 So when you try to get all those six things that we outlined 24:57 to occur. When you begin to understand Daniel 9:24-27 25:00 and try to get that to fit within these two time frames - 25:03 Cyrus and Darius - it just doesn't fit. 25:05 It leaves a gap. It leaves a what? A gap. 25:09 That's why it's also called the "Gap Theory. " 25:11 So they said: "OK, let's make this work. " 25:13 So they fit all kinds of other rulers in that spot 25:16 and it doesn't fit. 25:21 But when you use the correct dates... Look at the next slide. 25:25 Given by Artaxerxes. And the text that supports that 25:30 is Ezra chapter 7 verses 11-28. 25:32 This picture shows you the correct timing 25:35 for the 70-week prophecy of Daniel 9:24. 25:38 Look at that with me. 25:39 The correct timing there? Artaxterxes. 25:41 Say that with me again. Artax... Now don't just say it, 25:44 try to spell it. Now I'm helping you; it's on the screen. 25:47 Now what I want you to do is commit yourself 25:50 to get this presentation. Not because I'm doing it. 25:53 Because you're going to run into people that believe the rapture 25:56 theory. Let me also encourage you: later on after sunset 26:00 to also - if you're watching - to also get your hands on 26:03 the Final Events DVD... because I can't spend the time 26:06 doing that now. But it breaks down every aspect of the 26:09 secret rapture. 26:12 When you begin with Artaxerxes every particular of the prophecy 26:16 comes to fulfillment. Can you say "Amen" to that? 26:19 Now let's look at that in detail. 26:20 Daniel 9 verse 25... look at the particulars. 26:41 Now the reason I repeated that is because I wanted you to see 26:44 the chart. Now it sinks in a little bit better. 26:46 So you begin from 457 BC. 26:49 You will follow that, and when you cross from BC to AD 26:52 what do you do? You add a year 26:55 because there's no year 0. 26:57 Can you imagine? When were you born? I was born 26:59 in 0. I was born March 3, 0. 27:03 There is no 0. 27:05 So when you switch from BC to AD you've got to add a year. 27:09 If you simply subtract 457 from 490, 27:13 you're going to get 33. 27:15 You've got to add that 1 for the changeover 27:17 to take you to 34 AD. 27:19 So the question is as we look at this outline again, 27:22 look at this next slide, let's begin to construct 27:24 this chart together. Here it is: 27:26 the 70 weeks... Daniel's outline. 27:29 And every particular... 457 BC 27:31 notice when we said: "Know therefore there shall be 27:34 seven weeks. " So the seven weeks fit. 27:37 Notice what happened in 7 weeks or 49 literal years. 27:41 From 457 BC Jerusalem was rebuilt in 408 BC 27:46 just as the prophecy predicted it would be. What do you say? 27:50 Amen. So that part of the prophecy is fulfilled. 27:53 "The wall shall be built again even in troublesome times. " 27:57 When you remember the story of Nehemiah. Remember that? 27:59 The people were in disrepair; the walls were broken down. 28:02 They couldn't get the thing finished, and God had spoken 28:05 to Nehemiah's heart. And he went and he finished the building 28:08 project in 52 days. 28:11 The Bible says they were convinced... they were convinced 28:17 that God was with Nehemiah and the people. 28:20 And the reason was the people had a mind to work. 28:23 The people had a what? Mind to work. 28:26 God sent Nehemiah to help the finishing process. 28:29 So Jerusalem was rebuilt in 408 BC. 28:33 That's the first aspect. Now let's look at it again. 28:35 You have 62 weeks that come up next. 28:37 After the 7 years you have 62 weeks or 434 years. 28:42 In other words, from 408 BC 434 years later 28:47 it takes us to what year? 27 AD 28:50 That's exact... That's math! 28:52 If you have math, that's just simply what we're doing... math. 28:56 So the question is: what happened in 27 AD? 29:02 Now wait a minute you theologians. 29:06 I want those who don't understand to see it unfold. 29:08 Acts chapter 10 and verse 38 tells us 29:11 what happened in 27 AD. 29:14 And remember, the Messiah was supposed to be anointed. 29:17 Remember that? 29:19 Acts 10 and verse 38. Look at the Bible: 29:21 I love the Bible. Praise the Lord for that. 29:25 Dr. Luke writes: 29:46 That's what happened in 27 AD. 29:48 Now you read in that text and you say: "But Pastor John, 29:51 it doesn't say a thing about 27 AD. 29:54 Somebody at home is saying: "I don't see any 27 AD in that 29:57 text. " Well... how do we know that Jesus was in fact 30:03 anointed in 27 AD? 30:05 How do we get the timing? 30:06 Line upon line... precept on precept. 30:10 Luke chapter 3 verse 1, verse 21 and verse 22. 30:15 Look at the screen: 30:50 Now let's look at the next graphic and begin to build 30:52 this part part because Tiberius Caesar is significant. 30:55 Notice between... look at the 62-week period there. 30:58 You see a small line, and if you can read that... 31:01 My graphic guy said that's too tiny, but some of you've got 31:04 great vision. I appreciate that. 31:06 Tiberius Caesar began to reign with his brother in 12 AD. 31:12 And the text says "In the fifteenth year of the reign of 31:17 Tiberius Caesar. " 31:19 Come on... math. Ready? 12 + 15 gives you what? 31:23 27. So far the Bible is correct. 31:27 What do you say? Amen. So Jesus showed up. 31:30 I used the title for the presentation: 31:32 Timing is Everything. 31:34 Let me just make a point... this is a sidebar. 31:36 I'm not going to take too much of my time to say this, but 31:38 this is what I want to say: Nothing that happens in heaven 31:42 happens by chance or by coincidence. 31:46 Sin is on a timetable. 31:50 The Bible says no man knows the day nor the hour 31:52 of the coming of the Lord... but God knows! 31:55 If God didn't know, the Bible wouldn't say so. 31:58 "No, not the angels of heaven but... " What? 32:01 "My Father only. " God knows! 32:04 And there are those who say "Well we delay the coming 32:07 of the Lord. " No, the Bible says 32:09 "Some people say 'the Lord delayeth His coming. ' " 32:11 He knows the day, and that's why He says 32:13 we can't say that the power to speed up the coming of Christ 32:17 is in our hands. And let me ask you the question: 32:20 in whose hand in here is the power to speed up 32:23 the coming of the Lord? 32:24 It's your responsibility to do the work of the Lord. 32:27 If you don't do it, the rocks and the trees will do it. 32:29 And the mountains will do it. But God is not going to say: 32:32 "You know, those folk down there in Thompsonville have 32:35 put off My coming for 15 years. 32:37 I wish they would hurry up so the rest of the world 32:39 can be happy. " Let me tell you something: 32:41 He said: "I'm going to come at an hour that you think not 32:44 to appoint you your portion with the hypocrites. " 32:47 Let us never think... Now we can hasten, 32:50 we can work diligently, 32:52 to bring about the coming of the Lord. 32:54 That's why 3ABN is committed to carrying the gospel 32:57 24 hours 7 days a week around the world. Amen. 33:00 That's why there are churches all over the world 33:01 preaching this three angels' messages in the last days: 33:04 so that people can hear the gospel. 33:06 Because there's another component there. 33:08 He says: "When the gospel of the kingdom... 33:10 when this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all 33:13 the world for a witness unto all nations... " 33:15 Come on now... what's the rest? 33:16 "THEN shall the end come. " 33:20 That's where we have the part to play. 33:23 But if you don't fulfill your part, 33:26 God's going to get somebody else to do it. 33:27 As a matter of fact, can you imagine somebody saying 33:29 "I am not going to let Jesus come; I just don't want Him 33:32 to come... so I'm not going to do anything. " 33:35 And the Lord's gonna say: "This is one person 33:38 that's holding Me up. " That's not heaven's timetable. 33:41 God knew at the entrance of sin how much time He was 33:45 going to give for sin to run its course. 33:50 And thus nothing that happens in heaven 33:53 happens by coincidence. 33:54 It's all based on the time of God's Word. 33:58 As a matter of fact, look at Galatians... 33:59 Galatians 4 and verse 4. 34:04 Jesus came right on time. Timing is everything. 34:07 Galatians 4:4 reads as follows: 34:19 God had the timing. Timing is everything. 34:25 The very nature of prophecy is to keep us on schedule 34:30 with heaven. That's why Daniel 9 verse 26 gives us 34:35 the second half. We already covered the first 49 years. 34:38 Jerusalem was rebuilt. 34:40 Then we just peeked at the next 434 years. 34:44 Jesus was anointed... He was baptized 34:46 and His ministry began in the year 27 AD. 34:50 Let's go to the next part. 34:52 What's going to happen after that 62 weeks? 34:54 Daniel 9 verse 26... the Bible says: 35:08 Brethren, these next 4 or 5 verses that I'm going to share 35:12 with you show you how significant timing is. 35:15 When Jesus came to the earth... and I want you to stay up... 35:17 When Jesus came to the earth everything about His life 35:23 was based on the words of the prophets. 35:27 Isaiah, Jeremiah, Malachi, 35:30 Ezekiel... You can keep going down, minor and major prophets, 35:33 they were all fulfilled. 35:35 "A virgin shall conceive... " 35:37 "For unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given. " 35:40 Everything. And when you read the words of Christ, 35:42 He often said: "This happened that the words of Isaiah 35:46 might be fulfilled. " 35:47 "I will speak to these people; they are the ones that are 35:50 deaf. " He says: "They close their ears. " 35:51 Isaiah the prophet said that a long time ago. 35:53 And when Jesus came the Jews rejected Him 35:55 and He said: "THIS is the fulfillment 35:57 of Isaiah the prophet. " 35:59 When He stood up and read He said: "This is the fulfillment 36:01 of Jeremiah the prophet. " 36:03 Everything that happened in the life of Christ was foretold. 36:06 He came because He... get this... 36:09 was a part of constructing the schedule of heaven. 36:14 He said: "I've got a datebook here. Got some dates I need to 36:17 fulfill. " And He came down here. 36:22 I like to say it this way: "He took a vacation from... 36:25 He took a vacation from creating constellations 36:28 and galaxies to spend some time with us. " 36:31 "The Word became flesh. " 36:34 He said: "Let me lay aside My powerful divinity 36:38 and go spend some time with My ever-loving humanity. " 36:42 And the very people to which He had submitted this 36:45 gospel were the very ones that rejected Him. 36:48 Thus this probationary prophecy was very necessary 36:50 to make sure that if they were converted 36:54 they would be converted based on God's timetable 36:58 and according to God's pre-determined agenda. 37:02 Nobody's converted on their own terms. 37:05 Nobody's baptized on their own terms. 37:09 And none of us is going to heaven on our own terms. 37:13 It's always by the Word of God. 37:16 Look at the word of Jesus. 37:17 All of these time prophecies made it very, very clear 37:19 that Jesus understood that everything had a time. 37:22 As a matter of fact, when Jesus preaches His last 37:24 public sermon just before the Last Supper with His disciples 37:27 listen to what He said: John 12 and verse 23. 37:30 This is what He said: 37:40 Notice what He said: "The hour has come... " 37:42 "This was foretold; this was predicted; 37:44 I knew this was coming. " 37:46 As a matter of fact, when His mother at the wedding of Cana 37:49 when she said to Jesus: "Give them some wine; 37:53 give them... they're running out of stuff to drink. " 37:55 He says: "Woman, what do you have to do with Me? " 37:58 He said to her: "My hour has not yet come. " 38:02 All about time. Look at the next one. 38:05 John 12 verse 27. 38:08 When Jesus told the multitude about His crucifixion 38:10 and His crucifixion was at hand He said in John 12 verse 27... 38:14 He said what? 38:27 He knew this was the hour. 38:30 Because there were many attempts that were made 38:31 on the life of Christ. There were times that they had 38:34 backed Jesus up to a precipice and they said: 38:36 "We've got Him now. " 38:38 And He walked right through the midst of them. 38:40 You know why? Because His hour had not yet come. 38:44 Here's another one: Mark 14 verse 41. 38:47 Laying the foundation for that Jesus prayed 38:49 in the Garden of Gesthemane just before He was arrested. 38:52 Just before the mob came to arrest Him, He's praying 38:54 with His disciples and they can't even stay awake. 38:58 But notice what He said: 39:18 He said: "This is the... You! This is the hour 39:21 that you should be praying for Me 39:24 and you're sleeping and resting. " 39:26 So you know, when I read that I could no longer get upset 39:29 with folk that sleep in church. 39:32 None of you are sleeping today, by the way. 39:34 Praise the Lord for that. 39:35 But another time prophecy: when Judas approached Jesus 39:39 with the chief priest to get ready to arrest Jesus 39:42 notice what else He said found here in Luke 22:53. 39:47 Once again, all about time. 39:48 He said... He said to the chief priest: 40:03 "This is your hour. " "This is the hour that Daniel 40:07 said I am going to be cut off. 40:09 I'm not going to be cut off for Myself. 40:11 This is the cut off hour. 40:12 This is the hour that I've got to give my life as a ransom 40:16 for many. " And I praise the Lord today that I can preach 40:18 this prophecy and say one of the verifying factors 40:21 is we're living 2012 AD... Anno Domini, in the year of our Lord. 40:25 What do you say? Amen. So whether you are atheist, 40:27 agnostic, or you don't even believe in anything 40:30 you cannot hide the fact that we are in 2012 40:33 in the year of our Lord. 40:35 Not in the year of Mohammed. 40:38 Not in the year of Buddha. 40:40 Not in the year of the Age of Aquarius. 40:43 In the year of our Lord. What do you say? Amen. 40:46 2012 years we've been in the year of our Lord. 40:50 So history verifies that Christ was here. 40:53 But the prophecy said He would not be cut off for Himself. 40:58 Daniel said He'll be cut off in the middle of the last 7 years. 41:03 Daniel also said He would not be cut off because of something 41:07 He'd done. And Isaiah the prophet agreed with Daniel. 41:10 As a matter of fact, Isaiah the prophet wrote 41:12 before even Daniel wrote 41:14 why Jesus was going to be cut off. 41:16 Look at Isaiah 53 and verse 8 together. 41:19 Isaiah 53 and verse 8 says: 41:31 He was stricken because His people rejected Him. 41:34 As a matter of fact, He came... in John 1:1 He said: 41:36 "I came to My own and My own did not receive Me. " 41:38 But just so that you don't think the Jews were the ones 41:41 that were responsible, He died for OUR sins. 41:45 I've heard some people say "Well man, I wouldn't want to be 41:48 the Jews. " It's not about nationality... 41:52 it's about spirituality. 41:54 It's not about your place of origin... 41:59 it's about your place of destination. 42:02 So oftentimes you get caught up: "Well I'm from this country, 42:04 that country. " The Lord says: "I came to save 42:06 the entire world. "For God so loved the Caribbean 42:09 that He gave His only begotten Son. " 42:12 What did He say? "For God so loved the world 42:15 that He gave... " So let's not beat up the Jews 42:18 all the time 'cause I believe that there are some people... 42:21 I lived in New York City, and there were some Jews 42:25 that walked around with black shirts and big bold lettering: 42:27 Jews for Jesus. 42:29 Some of them got it. Can you say "Amen" to that? 42:31 Amen. And so there are many that are still going to be 42:34 converted... but not the way the dispensationalists say. 42:37 There are many yet to accept Jesus. 42:40 Now let's look at the chart as we begin to build this 42:42 factor together. The chart now shows you where we are. 42:45 Daniel's outline: "After 62 weeks... " 42:48 You have the 62 weeks: 434 years. 42:51 Jerusalem is rebuilt. Jesus is anointed in 27 AD. 42:55 Then you only have one week left 42:59 or seven years left. 43:02 Notice half a week, half a week? You have one week left. 43:05 How many weeks do you have left? One. 43:07 How many days in a week? Seven. 43:09 So you have 3-1/2 years and 3-1/2 years. 43:12 Jesus was cut off in the middle 43:16 of the seven years. 43:19 In the middle of the week He was cut off. 43:25 And when you look at that the Bible writers make it 43:27 very, very clear. Paul the apostle, 43:29 when he was looking back at the crucifixion of Christ, 43:32 he made it clear. Even... even after 43:35 the crucifixion had occurred, Paul - by the unction 43:38 of the Spirit of God - made sure that those in the New Testament 43:41 church that were not privy or knowing of Jesus when He 43:45 walked the earth, he reminded them that what happened 43:47 to Christ was all about time. 43:50 Look at Romans 5 and verse 6. 43:53 Paul said... and this is the NIV. I like the way 43:56 it's said there. He said... Romans 5 and verse 6: 44:10 Who knows the King James version? 44:13 "For in due time Christ died for the ungodly. " 44:17 "In due time" is the way the King James version says it. 44:20 But Paul says: "Just at the right time. " 44:23 27 AD... at the right time. 44:27 No time earlier... no time later. 44:29 And there are questions that come up as you begin to 44:31 look at that because people try to say: "Well, 44:36 this thing can't be so accurate because the Bible 44:39 had to be written by faulty men. " 44:41 I'm putting together a new series of lessons right now 44:43 that says the Bible was not written by faulty men. 44:46 The Bible was written by holy men. 44:49 "Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. " 44:54 God didn't choose people with a beer in one hand 44:56 and a cigarette in the other and a pen in the other. 44:59 He made sure that their lives were imbued by the presence 45:03 and power of the Holy Spirit 45:05 so that He could use them as honorable vessels. 45:08 That's why He used a tax collector - now converted. 45:11 And he made it very, very clear... 45:13 He made it very, very clear that this is truly all about time. 45:17 Look at Matthew chapter 26 and verse 18 45:19 how He made it very clear. Concerning the Passover weekend 45:22 just before Jesus was crucified Matthew wrote these words: 45:36 But now we get down to the very significant, nitty gritty 45:40 part of the 70-week prophecy... 45:43 the 490th... because there are some parts not yet fulfilled. 45:46 As a matter of fact, we don't want to leave any gaps. 45:48 What do you say? The gaps have to all be filled in. 45:51 Daniel 9 verse 27 now takes us to the next part. 45:54 Daniel 9:27... the Bible says: 46:11 Now when you think about that... 46:13 Let's look at this chart. I want you to see this right now. 46:15 The chart is very... I'm going to explain it as we go. 46:17 Here it is... Daniel's outline again. 46:20 "He shall confirm the covenant with many for one week. " 46:23 Sixty-two weeks after that - 434 years - 46:27 the Messiah anointed. You see Jerusalem rebuilt. 46:29 Then you see Jesus cut off in the middle. And after Jesus 46:32 was resurrected, where did He go? 46:36 Come on... talk to me. Where did He go? 46:38 He went to heaven. 46:39 He didn't go and begin to preach to the New Testament church. 46:43 So it almost seems as though there's some kind of 46:47 problem in the prophecy because it says: "He shall 46:50 confirm His convenant with many for... " How many weeks? 46:53 "for one week. " So, how is He going to do that 46:57 when He's not here? 46:59 Ah... I think we've found a gap. 47:02 No we didn't. 47:04 God's Word is sure. 47:08 Hebrews chaper 2 and verse 3. 47:10 Here it is. There are no gaps. 47:14 There are no gaps with Jesus. 47:17 Here it is: 47:41 Now follow carefully. 47:42 Who heard Him? Tell me... who heard Him? 47:44 The disciples heard Him. 47:47 Who heard Him? The apostles heard Him. 47:49 They heard Him so well that He says: 47:52 "I do great works but greater works than these... 47:56 than these will you do. " So when Jesus left... 47:58 Remember the whole 70-week prophecy was about 48:02 probationary time for who? For the Israelites. 48:05 For the Jews. So therefore if there's still 3-1/2 years left 48:10 that's why when Jesus - before He left - He said: 48:12 "When you begin preaching the gospel, first go to the lost 48:15 sheep of the house of Israel. " 48:17 So on the Day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit was poured out 48:20 it fell at Jerusalem. There were Jews that were there. 48:23 Devout men out of every nation. 48:25 And it was poured out on the Jews 48:29 because there were still 3-1/2 years left. 48:32 And the book of Acts unfolds in chronological sequence 48:36 unmistakably that God still gave the Jews 48:39 even after they crucifed Him... 48:41 Now let me tell you something: that is a loving God. 48:43 What do you say? Amen. He said: "You already nailed Me 48:45 to the cross but I'm giving you 3-1/2 more years left. " 48:50 Persecuted the apostles. Threw them in jail. 48:53 Stoned Stephen. And you know the story very, very well. 48:58 They stoned Stephen. 49:00 The final appeal to the nation of Jews - 49:03 Acts chapter 7 and Acts chapter 8- 49:05 Paul - the unconverted Paul - was there under the name 49:08 Saul... gave consent for the stoning of Stephen. 49:11 And that very year marked the closing. 49:14 But I am going to deal with these two very, very briefly - 49:16 very, very quickly though - 49:18 because there are still two main points left 49:22 for this prophecy to be completely fulfilled. 49:25 Now do you understand it so far? 49:28 OK. Let's deal with two parts. 49:30 I'm going to kind of do them in reverse 49:32 because the Bible also said not to leave out anything. 49:35 It said He's not only going to die in the middle of the week 49:37 but He's going to cause the sacrifices and the oblations 49:40 to cease. In other words: "I AM the Lamb of God 49:44 slain from the foundation of the world. " 49:46 "There's no need for another lamb... I AM the Lamb. " 49:51 I am so glad we don't have to take lambs' lives. 49:53 Can you imagine? 49:55 It'd be a bloody world. 49:57 I mean really... think about it. 50:00 The lambs were just dying where the people lived. 50:03 But can you imagine if we had to take lives? 50:05 That's why it's so ridiculous... It is so ridiculous 50:08 that evangelicals sometimes teach 50:11 that the sacrificial system is going to be reinstated 50:14 and the red heifer's going to be reinstated 50:16 and the sacrificial system's going to be reinstated. 50:18 And they say that we are saved by works? 50:22 You get that? 50:25 Salvation has always been by grace through faith 50:28 in Christ alone. Amen. 50:30 Well let's look at how Jesus brought the sacrificial system 50:33 to its end when He died. Mark 15 verse 37 and verse 38. 50:39 Because that has to come down; sacrifical system has to cease 50:42 because the BEST Lamb has just been sacrificed. 50:45 Notice the words of Mark: 51:04 Now if you said bottom to top you'd say "Somebody did that. " 51:07 But there was nobody... They were long past 51:10 the antediluvian age so there was nobody tall enough 51:13 to tear that curtain from the top to the bottom. 51:15 Now the reason why the Lord tore that from the top 51:17 to the bottom He made it very, very clear. 51:19 He said: "You house is left unto you desolate. " 51:22 "The Lamb, the chief corner- stone, the One that you kept 51:27 putting aside is the only means whereby you found 51:30 you could have salvation. " 51:31 As a matter of fact, He even said this to us. 51:33 And I want for you to get this clearly because sometimes 51:35 there are those of us who love studying our Bible. 51:37 There's nothing wrong with studying your Bible, 51:39 but remember what He said to the Jews. 51:42 I believe it's John 5 verse 39. 51:44 He said: "Search the scriptures 51:47 for in them you think you find eternal... " 51:49 He said: "You think you find eternal life... 51:51 but they are they which testify of Me. " 51:55 Here's the point He made. He said: "You'd rather study 51:57 the scritpures and I'm standing right here. You want the written 52:00 Word but hey, what's better than the Living Word? " Amen. 52:04 Now come on now... when we get to heaven we're not going to 52:06 have Bibles in heaven because we're going to have the Living 52:08 Word! There'll be no computers in heaven looking up scriptures. 52:13 We're going to have the Living Word right before us! 52:16 In the beginning was the Word and when all the written words 52:18 are gone the Word of God endures forever. 52:21 "He spake and it was done; He commanded and it stood fast. " 52:26 "By the Word of the Lord were the heavens made 52:28 and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth. " 52:32 So before there was a need for the written Word 52:35 there was the Living Word. 52:38 Before there was a need for the written Word 52:41 after the Living Word became the spoken Word. 52:43 "He spake... " What was the first thing He said? 52:45 "Let there be light. " 52:48 Brethren, before there was a need for spiritual light 52:50 and physical light to hold in your hand 52:54 God dispelled the darkness that existed from the very beginning. 52:57 The entrance of God's Word brings light. 53:03 So that's how it was. 53:05 The sacrifical system came to its end. 53:08 That's why today those amongst our denomination 53:11 that still keep talking about we need to keep these feasts 53:14 and all these... whatever they want to do... 53:17 You can keep them if you want to. 53:18 No sin in keeping them... 53:20 but you can't find Jesus in those feasts 53:23 because the feast... the wave sheaf... has already been waved. 53:27 The firstfruit has already been offered. 53:30 The Lamb has already been slain. 53:32 And He ascended to heaven and His Father accepted 53:34 His sacrifice. Amen. 53:37 There's no more sacrifices needed. 53:40 But how does this thing wind down? 53:43 Well, you'll find not only did the sacrifical system end 53:49 but the gospel - the last appeal to the Jews - 53:51 ended when they stoned Stephen 53:53 and the gospel then went to the Gentiles. 53:57 Boom! That's us. 54:00 Acts 13 verse 46... our final scripture. 54:03 Acts 13 verse 46. Paul and Barnabas preached 54:06 a powerful Sabbath sermon and the entire city of Antioch 54:10 came together. They said: "That was a good sermon! " 54:12 So the entire city wanted to hear the message. 54:14 And the next Sabbath almost the whole city came together 54:17 to hear the Word of God. 54:18 And Paul and Barnabas preached their hearts out. 54:20 When the Jews saw the multitude they were filled with envy. 54:23 They said: "Who are all these people in our church? 54:25 We're the only ones worthy of salvation. " 54:27 That's why you'd better be careful when folk visit your 54:30 church. That's extra credit... that's not in the sermon. 54:35 Don't ever say that there's people that are from the outside 54:37 not worthy of eternal life... no matter how they look. 54:39 That was the problem the Jews had: 54:41 "They don't look like saved folk... 54:43 what are they doing in here? " 54:44 And they got so upset that people came in there 54:46 that didn't look like they belonged there they said 54:48 "Paul and Barnabas, we don't like the way you preach. 54:49 Get out of town. " 54:51 And this is what they said before they left town... 54:53 Acts 13 verse 46: 55:13 Can the Gentiles say "Amen? " Amen! 55:16 The Gentiles have now become spiritual Jews. 55:20 As God gave the literal Jews probationary time, brethren, 55:25 this prophecy says as Pastor Stephen Bohr and our 55:28 former speaker said there are spiritual applications 55:32 and there are literal applications. 55:33 God gave the literal nation of Israel probationary time. 55:37 He's given us now probationary time 55:39 to do the very things He told them to do: 55:42 "Make an end to sin. Get rid of transgression. 55:44 Get your life together 55:46 so that your life can be an oil of gladness 55:49 anointing the Most Holy. " 55:51 Last glimpse of the chart... the fulfilled chart. 55:54 Here it is: 55:56 the final week of Daniel's outline was fulfilled. 55:59 27 AD... this is just the last week. 56:02 27 AD Jesus was anointed. 56:05 31 AD Jesus was cut off. 56:08 34 AD the gospel went to the Gentiles. 56:11 The confirmation began with Jesus 56:15 and ended with His disciples. 56:17 The final week of Daniel's 70-week prophecy was fulfilled. 56:23 Now here's what that means. 56:25 Here's what that means. For those who still hold onto 56:27 the rapture... Brethren, I shudder to thinking 56:30 that there are those who spend millions and billions of dollars 56:34 buying Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins and Hal Linsdsey 56:36 and Harold Camping and all the like 56:39 and Francisco Ribera and Luis de Alcazar in Rome 56:43 and all those books on the secret rapture. 56:45 And Scofield and all these guys. Scofield Study Bible. 56:48 All those notes, those rapture notes. 56:50 I shudder to think that there are millions and millions 56:53 of sincere Christians looking for an event that will never 56:56 happen. But I want to say to you today: 56:57 timing is everything. 57:00 Jesus fulfilled the prophecy on time 57:02 and He's coming back on time. What do you say? Amen. 57:05 So today we've got a Lord that knows what time is all about. 57:08 That's why my time is almost done. 57:12 So I'm going to thank God that we made it through this. 57:14 What do you say? Amen! 57:16 For those watching: get this presentation. 57:18 Share it with your family members and also get 57:20 Final Events so you can under- stand the lie that is connected 57:24 to this false teaching called the secret rapture. 57:28 God bless you. |
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