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Now, coming to Jesus' answer to the disciples' second question, "What
shall
be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?"
Jesus answered this question in verse 14: "And this gospel of the
KINGDOM shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and
then shall the end [of this world] come."
Brethren, YOU are helping me proclaim that Message!
WHAT is happening today--right now--that is fulfilling prophecy? YOU
are helping fulfill that prophecy--accomplish that very prophesied event! God
has called YOU, with me, as His instruments, by and through whom HE, the living
CHRIST, is fulfilling that prophecy! It is the very BEGINNING of God's
intervention in this world's ways and troubles evils!
It means CHRIST IS COMING SOON! The GOOD NEWS of the WORLD
TOMORROW--ruled by Christ--and by you and me--is now NEAR!
Now what NEXT?
The very next verse: "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:) Then...shall be great tribulation, such as was not
since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except
those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved [alive]: but for
the
elect's sake those days shall be shortened" (verses 15-16, 21-22).
Now UNDERSTAND! Luke 21 is Luke's account of this same prophecy of
Jesus. There, the abomination of desolation is spoken of as "Jerusalem compassed
with armies" (verse 20).
This is spoken of in Daniel 11:31. Speaking of Antiochus Epiphanes in 167
B.C., the King James translation has, "And arms shall stand on his part...and
they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate." But more modern
translations render this as armed forces coming into Jerusalem and setting up
this
abomination. Tradition says Antiochus placed a statue or idol of Jupiter Olympus
there. But it was accomplished by military invasion of Jerusalem.
Now beginning verse 40 in Daniel 11 it speaks of coming to the time of
the
end--our time NOW! The Roman power shall "enter also into the glorious land"
(verse 41). See also verse 45.
Then, continuing into chapter 12, the time of trouble greater than any
before or after on earth--the "Great Tribulation."
But after the Great Tribulation, Christ's coming (Dan. 12:2, Matt. 24:29-
30).
Then, of course, the thousand years of PEACE and salvation for all with CHRIST
RULING and Satan banished.
That tells you what's happening NOW and what shall happen next.
YOUR job and mine, as co-workers with Christ, is a million times the most