Circumstances
and Consequences
Seminar 216-04
June 3-6, 2009
Seminar Topic:
The Two Witnesses
– Part IV
Larry Wilson
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Circumstances:
Ironic: The world is full of
knowledge and darkness
Consequences:
The world is self-destructing.
But, rejoice! The
darkness will soon be over!
The world consists of
two groups of people:
Day people
Night people
They are as different
as night and day.
Night people are
inspired by darkness.
Day people are
inspired by the light of truth.
“Just the facts, mam.”
Night people favor
night vision. Their light of truth
hurts their eyes.
Night people prefer
darkness because darkness enables a
person to ignore what he doesn’t
want to see.
Night people prefer
darkness because wrongdoing
doesn’t appear “all that
bad” in the dark.
Why are bars, taverns,
and strip clubs inherently dark?
Night people are most
comfortable and happiest in the dark.
John 3:19 This
is the verdict: Light has come into
the world, but men loved darkness
instead of the light because their
deeds were evil.
John 3:20 Everyone
who does evil hates the light, and
will not come into the light for fear
that his deeds will be exposed.
John 3:21 But
whoever lives by the truth comes into
the light, so that it may be seen
plainly that what he has done has
been done through God.”
Translation:
“Those who are sincere about
Truth and are honest in heart –
they will surrender to advancing
light and their actions will be
plainly seen as God’s Spirit
works through them.
Truth is fact.
Those who love the
light want the facts.
Facts constantly
unfold because the light of truth
constantly moves forward. Light
perpetually displaces darkness.
For 2,000 years,
Christians have been looking for the
return of Christ (some more and some
less).
What factual evidence
do we have that the return of Jesus
is near?
1. Daniel
12:4 “But you,
Daniel, close up and seal the words
of the scroll until the time of the
end…”
This is huge. The
unsealing of Daniel produces the key
to understanding our chronological
position within God’s plans.
The unsealing of
Daniel is the discovery of the four
rules that govern the interpretation
of apocalyptic prophecy.
The unsealing of
Daniel enables us to determine the
intended meaning of Revelation.
First fact: The book
of Daniel was sealed up until the
time of the end. The book of Daniel
has been unsealed because the rules
that govern apocalyptic
interpretation have been discovered.
The intended meaning
of Daniel and Revelation cannot be
determined without valid rules of
interpretation.
2. The
Bible only speaks of about 7,000
years.
3. The
wounding and the healing of papal
power.
4.
Earth’s resources versus
Earth’s population.
5.
Hardness of heart.
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.
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