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Luke 21

34 "But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and†cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly.
35 "For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth.
36 "Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man."

Nelson, Thomas (2009-02-18). Holy Bible, New King James Version (NKJV) (p. 1023). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.

So I watch and pray that I may be counted as worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass.

We are seeing a return to the "Book of Acts" level of Christian persecution. We are seeing the return of the Messianic Jewish believers. We are seeing a level of wickedness in the world that recalls the days of Noah and Sodom.

September 23, 2015 is exactly 49 prophetic (360 day) years from the date that the Jews recaptured Jerusalem. Sir Isaac Newton thought that God divided the first 69 weeks (sevens of years) into 7 weeks and 62 weeks for a reason. That the total identified Christ's first coming after the order to "restore and rebuild Jerusalem" and the 7 weeks after the order to "restore" would identify His second coming.

September 23, 1017 is the day that the Revelation 12:1-2 "great wonder in the heavens" appears. This particular arrangement of sun, moon, stars and planets has not occurred in the past 7000 years and won't happen in the next 2000 years.

On 17 August 2017 = 25th of Av, 5777 a total solar eclipse will slash across America from South Carolina to Oregon. On 8 April 2024 = 29th of Adar II, 5784 a total solar eclipse cuts from Mexico across Texas to Maine. Completing the "crossing off" of the United States? Commercial Babylon has fallen??

Previous Bible Prophecy has only been recognizable after it has occurred. The whole history of the Greek Empire in Daniel 11 was incomprehensible until after it happened. The end-time prophesy will probably not be any different.

However. if it turns out that we find ourselves in the Great Tribulation, remember this: DON'T TAKE THE MARK OF THE BEAST! It is better to loose ones head than to loose ones immortal soul to the Eternal Lake of Fire.

Romans 10
6 But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ down from above)
7 or, “ ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).
8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach):
9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
11 For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.”

Nelson, Thomas (2009-02-18). Holy Bible, New King James Version (NKJV) (p. 1100). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.

Thanks - The Jews of Jesus’ day thought they had it all figured out - how He would come and what He would do. So they missed it. So I try not to get too tie up in numerology.

I do, however, like to consider their long view of history - that it was composed of this (their current) age and the age to come. And that the Messiah would come to close the current age (the end of the age) and usher in the new age (a new heaven and a new earth). This, I believe, is what the New Covenant is built upon.

I also believe that when Jesus says that “this generation will see it all”, that he was answering the disciples question: “Tell us, when will this be . . “ (Jesus makes a similar claim in the first verse of Revelation). And in Matthew Jesus ties his answer to Daniel - referring, I believe, to the 70 weeks. I highly recommend the (small) book: “The Seventy Weeks” by Philip Mauro. He uses nothing but the Bible to interpret the Bible - makes a great deal of since.

We’ll all know the truth soon enough - see you then.