We saw in Part 1 that this Messiah, this Christ who was to come, was to actually be “God.”
The the question comes up, well what sort of “God” is this who was to come to Judea and in the wilderness. The answer in Isaiah 40 is that this is the God who created heaven and earth, stretching out the heaven all by Himself, and measuring dust for the mountains and hills, and on and on.
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Astonishingly, Isaiah chapter 40 tells us very clearly that the Messiah, the Christ, The One Who Wast To Come, was to be God Himself. And It tells where He was to come, that is in the wilderness (unpopulated places) and in, of all places, Judea! And that this would be “good news.”
Further Isaiah 40 tells us that the way would be prepared for God, by one crying in the wilderness!
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Before the end of this present world, even though most miss it, the entire world will turn to the worship of Satan, and his special man, who also called “the beast” and “the man of lawlessness” and “the corpse” and “the abomination of desolation.” IT WILL BAD TIMES FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD, with the surviving Christians who will not worship the beast being protected in “the wilderness.”
But then Jesus will finally come to rescue His own, and bring Judgment on the universe.
So there is also joy among the Christians because they know their deliverance is near.
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My book Jewish Chronicles, is about things well before the end of this world.
Both Prophecy Principles and Revealing the Christian Age give more details on the end of this present universe, and the beginnings of the New Heavens and the New Earth. All are available from your bookseller.
God has many ways to make our sins come down on our own ears. One those, which is prominently addressed in Isaiah 24 is the land, the earth, being cursed because of our sins, which of course has been the case from the first.
Of course another way that God sometimes uses to bring the fruits of our sins down on us is of war. Both the gospels of Matthew and Luke make it clear that Jerusalem will be destroyed because of the sins of the Jewish nation in rejecting their own Messiah, Jesus the Christ.
But the gospel discussions of the Destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD also kind of slides into a discussion of the end of the world. Many seem to miss the point, but it seems that the Destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD is also symbolic of the way it will be at the end of this present world.
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Of course these are terrible things that have happened to the Jews, even though significant numbers have been converted to Christ down through the Christian age.
In the end there will be a complete turnaround of the Jews. Jeremiah pictures a day when,
“At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of ALL the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.” Jer 31:1
Of course, that day has not happened YET! It will only happen after a time of severe stress for both Christians and Jews, and of that day it says.
“Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.” Jer 31:2.
This is not about a so-called millennial kingdom, but rather of the time when a very stubborn people at last turn to their own Messiah, and bring about a complete world turnaround for the church of Jesus of Nazareth the Christ of God. Then will be fulfilled what it says in Dan 2:35, that the church/kingdom will “fill the whole earth.”
The full story, of both how the Jews got side tracked, and how at last they will be turned around, is told in my third book, Jewish Chronicles. Available from your book seller.
Many view carbon or carbon dioxide, or “fossil fuels” as the greatest threats to our environment, things demanding immediate action, and a complete turnaround in how mankind thinks and works.
In truth, the greatest threats to our environment are spiritual, not chemical.
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In truth the outlines of our age are much different than what is presented in our propaganda mills.
My second book, Revealing the Christian Age, gives an overview of the book of Revelation, and the tools you need for further study. It is available from your book seller.
The true church of our Lord is NOT a human entity at all. It has no earthly headquarters. It has no earthly head. Jesus is its head, and He is in heaven.
It is an eternal temple made without hands.
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We often misunderstand the nature of God’s holy temple, His holy church. We are living stones in this temple 1Pe 2:5 , which will one day fill the whole earth, Dan 2:35.
Some think that if we do not know the date and hour of Jesus Coming (which we don’t!), that means there will be no signs of Jesus Second Coming.
This is a Fallacy.
There are many things of which we may not know the day or hour, yet there will be signs of these things being about to happen. You may not know the day or the hour that snow will next fall where you live, HOWEVER, there will signs of snow approaching. Freezing temperatures. Snowy looking clouds.
There are many things we do not or cannot know, but there will be signs of Jesus approaching coming (Lk 21:25-28), and we are to be “Watching,” Mk 13:37 KJV.
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To try to unravel the book of Revelation without the Old Testament prophets, is something which I do not think can be done. The book Revealing the Christian Age, tries to tie together many of the main links. Available from your bookseller.
An uproar, a tumult, of the nations against God and His Christ and His followere here on earth, and is a subject of the both the Old Testament and the New Testament, and is talked about in many passages, including Revelation, and in Isaiah 17.
A key question is: Who will be protected during those times? And Scripture gives some answers.
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God does look after His own!
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