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September 02, 2008
Revival
Hello and thank you for being with us again. I want to welcome all new members and there are people who write asking for prayer. I would like to ask you to pray with me for those who need help, Just Pray God will meet their needs.
I would like to show you something today that many don't realize the Lord did. He proclaimed the acceptable year of the Lord. Let me show you how those few verses He read in Isaiah are over 2,000 years between one sentence and the next.
The Lord had just finished his temptation by the devil in the wilderness:
Luke 2:13 And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season. 14. And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. 15. And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all. 16. And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. 17. And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, (Isaiah 61:1-2 1/2) 18. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering the sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, 19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
20. And he closed the book, and gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them were in the synagogue were fastened on him. 21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.
Ok, what's amazing about this was he proclaimed the acceptable year of the Lord. He didn't finish the verse, He stopped in the middle of it.
Why? Read the rest of the verse with me Isaiah 61:2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, And the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all that mourn;
The last half of the verse is the Day of Vengeance of our God. I don't think there is any mistake in what he did; he purposely stopped before the end of the verse. The Lord did not come seeking vengeance, but would have all that would be saved to come to know the Lord, He came to take away the ministry of the Pharisees and Sadducees and give it to the 12. That was Christ's earthly ministry, and it was to the Jew only.
I say to you today, now is the acceptable year of the Lord, God is not willing that any should perish, that's why he called an Apostle named Saul, whom the Lord changed His name From Jewish to Gentile. He sent Paul to provoke the Jews to jealousy but they didn't receive it, so the Lord gave the message of Grace to Paul that all could be saved no matter who. Exactly the opposite of what had done in Israel's case whose name was Jacob, and there are many more. Paul's gospel is Romans through Philemon; It is not the same gospel as Peter and the 12 nor is it the same salvation. He wrote more books than anyone in the bible. The salvation that the apostle Paul has taught will endure about 2,000 years and then when the Body of Christ is full, the Church will be taken out of here and that's a fact.
Let me give you a few examples of the two thousand year period.
In the book of Daniel there are 70 weeks determined upon Israel.
Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Stay with me here.
Daniel 9:25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. 26. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
The above verses added up are 69 weeks of years, and they have been fulfilled but the end is not yet and it fits the same gap as in Isaiah. There is one more week of years that has to be fulfilled to make an end to all the things listed above, it will be the time of Jacob's trouble and it will be a week of years; 7 years called the tribulation as prophesied by Daniel and later by John in the whole book of Revelation.
We are living in a "Gap" of time know as Loammi in the book of Hosea where God has turned away from Israel and they are not exalted among the nations spiritually or politically in this time. Israel will know "their" time when the tribulation starts and they will be instructed by the two witnesses (probably Elijah and Moses). But until the time the anti-christ makes a covenant (confirms one already in place, maybe the roadmap to peace) Israel's time clock will start again. Until then it is Grace by faith and not of works. 1Corinthians 15:3 Roman 10:9, and the prison epistles.
The last few months Israel and the U.S. have been pushing hard to have peace in Israel and one day they will have it and it will last 3 1/2 years, then the antichrist will break his covenant with them and when he stands in the Holy place the Israelis are to run for their life, it is the only warning they will get. That is why they were told to watch.
May God have mercy on the U.S. for pushing this peace plan to Israel. The Lord will surely destroy this country outright for dividing (HIS) the Lord's Land. With all the negotiations that have been going on lately it could very well be that the anti-christ has already signed that document and it is just not known who he is yet. The other thing that could happen is a war break out in Israel and after Israel has wasted a few million or so, then the man of sin will be willing to make peace with Israel and give them anything they want including the temple mount. There is yet another scenario; When Moses and Elijah show up they will be able to kill with fire from their mouths, I`m serious and that alone could run away every person that is in opposition to the ownership of the mount, but then there would be a war because of that anyway. I can't see the opposition as giving up without war or divine intervention. I would say it will be both.
Conclusion: Last week of years, 2 parts, 3 1/2 on one half on one side and 3 1/2 on the other.
Daniel 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured out on the desolate.
If you will read in Luke 2:41-46 you will see that Jesus as a boy had stayed behind in Jerusalem and His family(the Jews) were without him for two days on the 3rd day they found him again,(In the Temple). Each day is a thousand years.
I pray for the Peace of our Country and of Jerusalem, the antichrist could have very well already signed that peace accord, as much as it has been circulated getting everyone's approval, the end is truly near.
love to you all,
michael
Posted by michael at September 2, 2008 07:57 PM