68 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 2 - Part 4 - Book 6 - First Fruits

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com LESSON 2 * PART 4 * BOOK 6 FIRST FRUITS: GLEANINGS: OLD TESTAMENT SAINTS: RESURRECTION Daniel 12 & 9 The seven years of Tribulation, the return of Christ and the setting up of His kingdom. Let's go back to Daniel Chapter 9 where in our last lesson we saw 490 years in this complete prophecy concerning Israel. Now, let's look at Daniel 9:27: Daniel 9:27 I think they'll go back into the sacrifices and the whole nine yards and if you'll just read a little bit about the mentality in Israel today, you'll read how more and more, the orthodox are gaining momentum over the secular. So, this man will sign a seven-year treaty with the Jews, but let's read on: "In the midst of the week,..." Now, if you don't read that verse casually, but read it carefully, in order for something to cease, it has to start. So, what this verse is telling us is that, by the mid-point of the seven years, Israel will have been enjoying sacrificial Temple worship. And with the blessings of the man Anti-christ. Now, you know what abominations in Scripture are. Those are various human acts that God hates with no ifs, ands, or buts, about it. The Temple! This Temple that Israel will have built and will have been using for worship, he is going to make that Temple desolate. How? Now, Antiochus was not a great man as far as world history was concerned, but he was a great man in Scripture because he, like the man Anti-christ (when he over-ran the little Nation of Israel back there in about 200 or 300 B.C.) also decimated and defiled the Temple by sacrificing a sow (a hog) on the altar. Now, remember, for the first three and one half years, after signing the seven-year treaty, Israel is going to have a relative amount of freedom to worship. The man Anti-christ will, I think, still be up in his headquarters in Europe. The only thing that Israel is going to have happen, that is really going to put them in a bind for awhile, will be, what I think is the great Russian invasion of Israel. We won't have time in this lesson to touch on it, except to say that I think the Red Horse of Revelation 6, will be that great Russian invasion. Prophecy deals only with Western Europe, Russia, the Orient and Africa. God will destroy the Russian armies, but Chapter 39 says a fire shall fall on their homeland, and will annihilate the Russian homeland. If Russia unloads and destroys our North American continent, what have we got out there that can still retaliate? If you knock out the great agriculture areas of Russia and the great food production areas of our middle west, how much has the world got left? You've got runaway prices and nobody can afford what little there is. That tells me that this invasion could take place 10 or 11 months after the Anti-christ signs the treaty, and Israel, according to the Scriptural reckoning of time, would still have the full seven years to fulfill the cleaning up of the mess, and have it all done before Christ returns and sets up the Kingdom. And so, that time frame doesn't scare me. Go back to Matthew 24 and we'll see what happens when the Anti-christ moves into the Temple in Jerusalem at the mid-point of the seven years: Matthew 24:15,16 "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:) I maintain that all of Chapter 24 is Tribulation ground. You remember what Daniel called it? The abomination of desolation! "...spoken of by Daniel the prophet..." Let's look in verse 17: Matthew 24:17-20 Let's go back and examine these verses. Verse 17: When the Jews of Jerusalem suddenly realize that the Anti-christ is come into their Temple and has defiled it, and has forced them to begin to worship him instead of Jehovah, Jesus said when you see that happen, flee to the mountains. Well, your younger people. I'm going guess their ages from 25 to 45 years old; men and women both. Let's move on. Verse 19: "Woe unto them that are with child..." You've got retired people, working people, the young mothers, the mothers to be - it's a complete cross-section of society. And then verse 20: You remember I told you Israel will be back under the Law? Matthew 24:21 If I were a Jew, the last place I would go would be Israel. Zachariah 12:10 Zachariah 13:6 #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible