RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

Notice how JEWISH this is...                                       

The Messiah is sitting on the Mount of Olives warning His disciples of grim times (Matt 24) ...but how far ahead? 

We know the marvellous new temple in front of them will be pulled down stone by stone but sometime later..... we find things will get much worse!                                  

We find birth pains begin (v8), even thlipsis (tribulation begins -v9):                

’ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake’                                                                                        
When have Israelis been hated by all nations for their Messiah?  Not yet they haven’t, but... it gets even worse: ...thlipsis megas (Great Tribulation)!                      

Then it will be time to flee Judaea and hope that you don’t have kids with you or it’s winter-time or Sabbath.   

Guys... don’t stop to pack – run for your lives!

So what is the trigger?                                                 

‘The abomination of desolation, as spoken by Daniel the prophet, stands in the holy place.’                                        

Don’t you just love Matthew’s cute comment: 

“Whoso readeth, let him understand”         

(Guys, I don’t know what this will be like but maybe you do!)

Let’s take this slowly and carefully.... 

We learn from Daniel’s ‘70-week’ prophecy that after the Messiah is cut off  there is still 1 week (7 years) to run.  

“The people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary [Roman general Titus in 70 A.D.]...and the end thereof shall be with a flood and unto the end of the war desolations are determined....[Just how long is this gap?? Then...]  He [a Roman prince] shall confirm the covenant with many [the Jews] and in the midst of the week [of 7 years] he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate...”  

We have to look elsewhere for further clues but this at least tells us that the Jews will make a 7 year pact with the revived Roman Empire (EU?) which will be broken after 3 1/2 years, sacrifices will be stopped and some sort of abomination will stand in ‘the holy place’.           

What stood in the Holy of holies since Hanukkah – the purification of the temple in 165 BC? Nothing!...as Pompey found by storming into the temple in 63BC.  In fact, no ‘holy place’ in a Jewish temple has even existed for 1948 years since 70 A.D. so nothing can happen until that 3^rd temple is built on Temple Mount - which orthodox Jews are ready for right now!

How bad will things get? Without divine intervention ‘no flesh should be saved’!                                                

Never before in world history has it been possible for all life on earth to be eliminated like it could be now by nuclear war.

Did you see any mention of the Church in all that?

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