What…Why…When
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Three issues threaten
the survival of mankind:
1. Nuclear
proliferation will lead to nuclear
war
2. Population
of 7 billion is straining
Earth’s resources – One
billion people hungry
3. Global
epidemic of decadence, terrorism,
dishonesty, violence and sexual
immorality
Look at Paul’s
words to Timothy:
2 Timothy 3:1
“But mark this: There will be
terrible times in the last days.
2 Timothy 3:2
People will be lovers of themselves,
lovers of money, boastful, proud,
abusive, disobedient to their
parents, ungrateful, unholy,
2 Timothy 3:3
without love, unforgiving,
slanderous, without self-control,
brutal, not lovers of the good,
2 Timothy 3:4
treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers
of pleasure rather than lovers of
God-
2 Timothy 3:5 having
a form of godliness but denying its
power. Have nothing to do with
them.”
Does this describe the
world you live in?
Do you think these
kinds of people could bring on
nuclear war?
Do you think these
kinds of people will use predatory
violence in order to survive?
Do you think these
kinds of people will arouse the wrath
of God?
Yes! Yes! Yes!
The point here is that
mankind has become decadent and as a
result, Earth is sliding into chaos.
The current economic
crisis in the world was caused by
greed and dishonesty and the nations
of Earth will not recover.
There is no way for
the United States to repay its
national debt and our situation is
dire, but not as dire as other
nations bankrupt nations.
The sword of
“payday” hangs over the
nations by a thread.
Every person
acquainted with research knows that
digging the truth out of God’s
hand is hard work.
Thomas Edison spent
four years working on the light bulb.
He was interviewed one
day by a young reporter who asked the
inventor if he felt like a failure.
Edison replied,
“Young man, why would I fell
like a failure? And why would I ever
give up? I now know definitively over
9,000 ways that an electric light
bulb will not work. Success is almost
in my grasp.”
And shortly after
that, Edison invented the light bulb.
It took more than 10,000 tries, but
he didn’t quit!
I have used
Edison’s story to help you
understand that my understanding of
God’s clues remains a work in
progress.
So, here are three
clues showing why I believe the Lord
will come prior to 2017:
1. Book of
Daniel unsealed
2. Bible
history / Prophecy
3. The
Great / Grand Week
1. Book of
Daniel unsealed. Chart of
17 prophecies.
Daniel 12:9
He replied, “Go your way,
Daniel, because the words are closed
up and sealed until the time of the
end.
I believe the book of
Daniel has been unsealed. In
other words, the keys that govern the
interpretation of prophecy have been
discovered.
2. Bible
history / Prophecy 7,000
years
When all the
genealogical records and all the
historical events recorded in the
Bible are combined with the 18
prophetic time periods defined in
Daniel and revelation, it appears to
me the end of the Friday Millennium
could occur on or before 2017.
For a number of
reasons beyond our study today,
August 24, 2011 may be “a date
of interest” for the nuclear war
and the commencement of the seven
trumpets, but I am not sure.
(If August 24, 2011
proves significant, the end of the
world would occur 1,335 days later on
April 18, 2015.)
3. God’s
Great Clocks
Finally, there is
perfect harmony between the Great
Week and the Grand Week.
Truth is proven true
by the harmony that comes from the
sum of all its parts.
The Bible tells us
what is coming in considerable
detail.
The Bible tells us why
God’s wrath is coming. It tells
us why a God of love has to do what
He doesn’t want to do.
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