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>>Announcer: It has
stood the test of time.
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God's book, The Bible
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Still relevant in
today's complex world
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It Is Written
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Sharing messages of
hope around the world!
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Buddha,
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Krishna,
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Mohammad,
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Jesus.
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Are these men just different
manifestations of the One God?Or
is there a substantive
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difference between them? Is
there a way that we can
determine if these are just
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different manifestations of the
One God? Or do one of them
actually fulfill the claims that
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are made about Him? As we have
studied, we have developed a
criteria to answer the question
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of God's existence. In brief, we
discovered that truth and
certainty can be determined
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through probabilities. Simply
put, if an event has a
probability of occurring only
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once in 10 to the power of 50,
which is 1 time in 1 with 50
zeroes after, that event is
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statistically impossible to
occur. And that event becomes
even more impossible as the
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probabilities become even
smaller. What has been amazing,
truly astounding is that as we
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have studied the issue of God's
existence, God has defied
probabilities to demonstrate
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decidedly to His existence. When
applying statistical probability
to the major world religions, we
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found in that in spite of the
claims that each of these
religions and philosophys make,
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only the Old and New Testament
Scriptures challenge us to test
the claims that the Bible makes.
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And through prophecy, the
Bible's claims have been
demonstrated to be true and
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accurate over and over again.
This book can be trusted. Our
study has focused on the book of
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Daniel. The prophecies outlined
in Daniel, which foretellmany of
the world events, cannot be
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explained as pure
chance or good luck.
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Last week, we discovered that
the longest time prophecy in the
Bible pointed to the cleansing
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of the heavenly sanctuary in
1844. So today, we ask
additional questions: how do we
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know thatChrist is real, that
the sanctuary in heaven is real
and that the activities of
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Christ in the heavenly sanctuary
are real? In order to answer
those questions, first we need
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to ask, who is the Christ. Many
religious leaders made bold
claims. But to claim to be
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Christ, Messiah, Savior of this
earth would be bold. Jesus,
according to the Bible, was in a
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heated discussion with the
Jewish religious leaders. In
John 8:56 he stated,
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The Jewish religious leaders
responded to this statement by
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saying, In John 8:58
Jesus responds by saying
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This was a bold claim. In Exodus
3:14, God introduced Himself to
Moses as the Great I AM, the
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eternal self-existent One whose
life is original, unborrowed,
and underived. In claiming this
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very title, Jesus was stating in
no uncertain terms that He was
and is Divine. The Promised One,
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the Messiah, the Christ. The
Jewish leaders understood this
clearly, which is why they
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picked up stones to throw at
Him. When we look at the other
major founders of world
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religions, do we find the same
claims? Although there is no
single founder of Hinduism, the
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highest claim of the founders
was that of a sage-someone noted
and respected for his knowledge,
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integrity, and piety. Regarding
Islam, Muhammad was called the
"Seal of the Prophets." He is
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considered the final prophet
whose words could not be
disputed. Gautama Buddha claimed
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to be the super-enlightened one.
He achieved his apparent
enlightenment after a six year
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search while under a ficus tree
in India. And with even an
elementary and cursory glance at
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these claims, it reveals an
infinite distance between the
claim that Jesus made, and the
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claims of every
other religious leader.
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The Hindu sages formed a
philosophy in order to show the
way to ultimate truth; Buddha
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stated "For enlightenment I was
born, for the good of all that
lives"; Muslims state that the
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Quran is the infallible word of
God revealed to the prophet
Muhammad; but Jesus stated, John
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14:6
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It's one thing to say I can show
you the light but it's
altogether another thing to say
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I am the light! Those who make
these kinds of claims, to be
God, to be the way, to be the
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lightare either lunatics, liars,
megalomaniacs, or God. When we
picture in our minds a lunatic,
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we see deluded individuals whose
thoughts are disjointed and who
keep flitting from one absurd
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scene to another. This seems
impossible to reconcile in
regards to Jesus with what some
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refer to as the Greatest Sermon
ever Preached, a reference to
the Sermon on the Mount. When we
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look at Jesus and judge the
charge of being a liar, His
entire life was comprised of
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transparency, honesty and
truthfulness. To the question
"Tell us, are you the Son of
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God?" posed by the Sanhedrin
during His trial, Jesus answered
truthfully knowing full well
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that the consequences would mean
certain death. In fact, at one
point in His ministry He
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challenged His accusers to
convict Him of one sin, yet they
could not find one sin against
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Him, He was above reproach. My
friends, Jesus was not a liar.
Was He a megalomaniac?
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Megalomania is the symptom of
having delusions of greatness. I
don't believe history records
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any examples of megalomaniacs
washing the feet of their
followers. That was what Jesus
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did. Although He claimed
divinity, He was humble, like a
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servant. My friends, there is
only one logical conclusion;
Jesus is God. Yet some people
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try to state that He was a
simply a good or great man, a
prophet, but not God. Yet, this
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doesn't make sense because if He
is not God, as He claimed to be,
then He is not good at all. C.S.
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Lewis perfectly summed up the
futility of those who try to
suggest that Jesus was a good
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man but not God. In his book
Mere Christianity on pgs 40-41
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he states: Jesus claimed
divinity. But there is one
prophecy that puts such
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constraints on fulfillment, that
it could leave no mistake. It is
the prophecy of Daniel 9:24-27.
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Let's turn our attention to
study these verses and see if it
enlightens us any more on the
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claims of Jesus.
Daniel 9:24-27 state,
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In last week's show we
discovered that the starting
place of this prophecy is 457
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BC. If you missed that show,
feel free to go to our website
www.itiswrittenccanada.ca and
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there you can find our archived
programs. 457 BC is the year
that the command was given to
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restore and build
Jerusalem.There are other
notable details that are
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contained in this most
remarkable prophecy. Will these
details legitimize the claims of
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Jesus' divinity? Daniel states
that from the going forth of the
decree to the Messiah would be
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69 weeks or 69 X 7 which equals
483 years. Now, the word
Messiah, like its Greek
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equivalent Christos, means the
anointed one. The book of Daniel
is here announcing that
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the Messiah would be anointed
exactly 483 years after the
commandment to restore and build
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Jerusalem! When we add 483 years
to 457 BC, which is like a
negative number.because the year
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after 457 BC would be 456 BC of
course, we come to 27 AD, now
some of you say. Wait, Wait. I
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get 26 AD when I do my math.
Well that would be right under
normal math circumstances.
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However we have a problem. In
normal math, zero is included in
the number scale. When measuring
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years, there is no year zero. So
years went from 1 BC to 1 AD.
There was no year zero, so
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therefore we skip year zero by
adding 1 year and that brings us
to 27 AD. Did anything
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remarkable happen in 27 AD?
Interestingly enough in the
Gospel of Luke, Dr. Luke records
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an interesting fact
in Luke 3:1, hes says,
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Why do I find that interesting?
Well it just so happens, that
the 15th year of Tiberius Caesar
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is 27 AD. But why is that
interesting? Well just a few
verses later the Bible records
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in Luke 3:21-22,
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Jesus was baptized in 27 AD or
the 15th year of Tiberius
Caesar. This is critical,
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because Acts 10:38
speaks of Jesus being anointed,
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Jesus was anointed at His
baptism in 27 AD. He was
anointed as the Messiah right on
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time.Jesus Himself referred to
this time period in the book of
Daniel when in Mark 1:15 He
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stated these
words after His baptism,
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Right on time. Yet this prophecy
is 70 weeks of years of 490
years, this only takes us 483 of
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those years. What happens
with those final 7 years?
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Daniel informs us that the
Messiah's ministry would only
last about half of that final
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week.approximately three and
half years. The prophecy states
that in the middle of this last
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week, the Messiah would bring to
an end the sacrificial system by
the sacrifice of Himself thereby
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confirming the covenant. In
other words, He would be cut
off, but His voluntary sacrifice
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would not be for Himself.
Instead, as Daniel informs us in
Dan 9:24, He would finish the
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transgression, make an end of
sins, make reconciliation for
iniquity, bring in everlasting
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righteousness, seal up the
vision and prophecy, and anoint
the heavenly sanctuary. In other
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words, He would make this great
sacrifice in order to provide
salvation and righteousness to
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you and to me. Three and a half
years after the baptism of
Jesus, in 31 AD, Jesus was
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crucified, fulfilling all that
the Bible predicted. All of it,
right on time. Those final three
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and a half years bring us to the
end of the 70 week prophecy in
34 AD. In 34 AD the Sanhedrin
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executed Stephen for his belief
that Jesus was the promised
Messiah. Daniel stated that the
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70 weeks or 490 years were
allotted for Daniel's people and
for the city of Jerusalem. In
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other words, with the stoning of
Stephen in 34 AD aprobationary
time had ended for Daniel's
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people because they rejected the
Messiah. In the parable of the
vineyard found in Matt 21:33-46
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Jesus informed the religious
leaders that on account of the
great sin they were about to
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commit by putting Him to death
the kingdom of God would be
taken from them and given to a
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nation bearing the fruits of it.
And with it, Israel as a nation
was no longer God's chosen
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people. All of it happening on
time. In addition, Daniel tells
us that the city and the
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sanctuary would be destroyed by
the abomination of desolation.
In AD 70, the Roman armies under
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Titus destroyed both city and
sanctuary. Jesus Himself
predicted in Matt 24:2 that
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there would not be left one
stone upon another in the Temple
that would not be thrown down.
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Friends, Daniel revealed almost
half a millennium before the
events occurred: The arrival of
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the anointed one, the Messiah,
the great I AM The exact year of
Christ's anointing at His
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baptismin 27 AD That Jesus'
ministry would only last about 3
and a half years That He would
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be cut off for our sins, and
that this would bring to an end
the sacrificial system. That the
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sanctuary and the city would be
destroyed. Dear friends we don't
have to wonder how in the world
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all of these specific
predictions ever come about by
chance! They never could have,
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the were fulfilled by the
divinely orchestrated plan of
God.This means thatBuddha,
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Krishna, Mohammad, Jesus, and
others who would claim to be
great religious leaders are not
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just manifestations of the One
God! No my friends, Jesus' claim
to be the Eternal One is
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verified by one of the most
amazing prophecies of the entire
Bible. This amazing book has
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connected the claims of Christ
with the prophecies of the
Bible. Friend, there is no
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other book on the face of the
earth that can do this! Jesus
himself said, in John 14:29:
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You can believe that Jesus is
the One. The prophecy of Daniel
9:24-27 sets the seal on
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Christ's claim to divinity.
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But what about this heavenly
sanctuary? How is it possible to
affirm the reality of heavenly
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things without having the
capability to examine them?
Remember, when we studied the
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dream of Nebuchadnezzar in
Daniel 2, we noted that this one
prophecy connected events that
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began with Babylon, Medo-Persia,
Greece, Rome, the 10 divisions
of Rome and finally ended with
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the 2nd Coming of Christ as the
Rock that struck the image on
its feet. All of those events,
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with the exception of the second
coming of Christ are completely
verifiable from history. But
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because the second coming is
connected to the rest of the
prophecy, but has not yet
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occurred, we can believe that it
will happen on the basis of the
other pieces being fulfilled To
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deny the reality of the 2nd
Coming of Christ, we would also
have to deny the rise and fall
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of the nations and events that
are based on the same prophecy.
That would not be logical. Logic
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that is based on the laws of
probability says that we can
know with certainty that Christ
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will come based on fulfillment
of the other events of Daniel 2.
And it is in a similar way, that
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the 70 week prophecy that points
to the baptism and crucifixion
of Christ which was cut off from
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the 2300 day prophecy about the
cleansing of the sanctuary that
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began in 1844. Since this is one
prophecy running through Daniel
8 and 9 demonstrating the
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reality of Jesus Christ as the
Eternal One with the reality of
Christ as the real presence in
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the heavenly sanctuary, we can
with assurance believe that
there is a sanctuary in heaven
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where Jesus is. To declare that
the heavenly sanctuary is not
real would be tantamount to
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declaring that Christ himself is
not real. It is interesting that
on one hand atheism declares
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that there is no heaven and thus
no sanctuary. Yet, on the other
hand many Christians beginning
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with the early and medieval
church declare that God and
heaven should be interpreted on
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the basis of Greek philosophy,
which means that material
structures in heaven like the
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sanctuary are mere meaningless
metaphors and illustrations.
That idea comes from the Little
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Horn and declares that God
cannot act within the sequence
of past, present and future, and
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that He is incompatible with
space and time. The consequences
of this philosophy for
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spirituality, salvation, and
worship are immense. Two world
views that come essentially to
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the same conclusion. However,
the Bible says that all of that
is not so. The Little Horn's
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attempt at trivializing the
reality of God would be
overthrown by a real Christ, who
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came to this earth, became real
flesh, really died for our sins,
really resurrected after the
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third day and really ascended to
heaven to dwell in a real
sanctuary working on our behalf.
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My dear friend,
let us therefore,
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He will forgive you, He will
cleanse you. He wants to write
His word in your heart and mine.
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What will you do? Let's pray.
Heavenly Father, thank you that
Jesus is real, thank you that
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your sanctuary is real and thank
you that you want to have a real
relationship with each one of
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us. We pray in Jesus name, amen.
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