[Jim W N]

Sends chills down my spine. We are REALLY close to the end - the rebuilding of the temple and the re-instituting the temple sacrifice as foretold in Daniel.

The Jews will try to re-institute the Mosaic Law which has been supplanted by the Covenant of the Grace of Christ which is what the Book of Hebrews is all about. Regardless, in the Daniel’s Seventieth Week - the unimaginablely horrific seven-year tribulation - the whole Nation of Israel will be saved. However, except for the 1/3 remnant who will be hiding in the mountains of Petra, all will be slaughtered by the “man of sin” - the “beast”. But hallelujah they will be saved.

So this and many other things surround the imminent rebuilding of the temple and the resumption of the sacrifice are clear signs the end is near - in a few decades IMO. IMO, this, the 21st Century which is also the beginning of the Seventh Millennium, will be the most astonishing century ever seen with
- Jesus catching up his Church to Heaven,
- Daniel’s horrific seventieth week (Revelation Chapt 4-19), and
- Jesus triumphant return to earth as King of Kings and Lord of Lords to reign from Jerusalem of 1000 years with his Church .

I believe the century will end with Jesus, the Price of Peace ruling the world from Jerusalem with us his Church as kings and priests. Wow. What a time we are living in..

[SaveFerris]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PcpexpefVzE

Blow the trumpet in Zion

[Cronos]

Daniel wrote of the rebuilding of the temple in 500 bc. Daniel’s vision ends with a rock, hewn by no hand becoming a mountain that encompasses the earth. That is Jesus and the mountain is the Christian church that arose on the pentecost.

Daniel’s visions were fulfilled with the resurrection of the Christ

[AFB-XYZ]

the end is near - in a few decades IMO

Great post, and I agree with everything except the one phrase quoted above. I personally don't think we have anywhere near a few decades left. More likely, a few -- VERY few -- years at most. Humanity as a whole has fallen so far, so fast. There's nowhere left to fall. The wholesale embrace of every conceivable evil thought, word and deed is exponentially increasing. I'd think the vast majority of humanity would be exterminated before a few more decades have passed.

[damper99]

This hiding of the Jews in Petra has always puzzled me. This statement and the location of Petra is well known. Why wouldn’t the anti-christ be aware of Petra’s location?

[Cronos]

Daniel’s horrific “week” happened and concluded with the destruction of the 2nd temple in 70 AD

[Cronos]

hiding in the mountains of Petra

That's biblically false - Jesus told the Christians to hide in the mountains and that's what they did - have you never heared fo the flight of Christians from the Jerusalem seige to Pellas?

Do you not realize that this prophecy of jesus' was seen as further proof of his deity and a further impetus for Christianity to stop being just another sect of 2nd temple Judaism - in fact 2nd temple judaism ended in 70 AD and it's daughter religions - Christianity and Pharisee-ism (what we call Judaism today) remained.

[Cronos]

Then the entire Petra nonsense - you don't seem to know how far Petra is from Jerusalem

And you don't seem to realize that there are other mountains before that

Furthermore Petra is built along a gully - while to the north there are plenty of caves -w here Christians fled to during the seige

Jim The Bible says that for whatever reason, the “beast” can’t get to them there in Petra. - the Bible says nothing of that sort. you, Jim, are adding to the words of John in the book of revelations and sinning as John wrote about in 22:18 For I testify to every one that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book: If any man shall add to these things, God shall add unto him the plagues written in this book

- Then you quote Daniel 11:41 - without having read what comes before with the prediction of Khorush, the King of Kings of Persia - And he shall enter into the glorious land, and many shall fall: and these only shall be saved out of his hand, Edom, and Moab, and the principality of the children of Ammon - this is about the King of the north, of Fars