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Exactly on cue, the extended three and a half years following the end of the Abrhamic 'seed' covenant ran out. God tightly controlling the timing of these events now caused a non-Jew, Cornelius, to receive a vision telling him to send for the Jewish apostle Peter who was then in the town of Joppa. The next day God caused Peter to receive a vision, showing him food items that previously were ruled as unfit for Jews according to the old Law covenant: such as pork meat etc. This old law was now no longer valid these old contract rules no longer applied, non-Jews were now to be accepted by them as 'OK' and no longer unclean. God was emphatically reminding Peter of the progressively developing situation and that the exclusive Jewish contracts were now obsolete and so no longer valid.
Cornelius called
Peter in response to his vision, Peter answered visiting
Cornelius' house. Peter was now to use the second of
the keys to the Kingdom given to him by Jesus. This second key opened
up a second entrance door to Kingdom admission Matthew
16:18-19, I will give you the keys of the Kingdom
of the heavens. Peter explained the royal Kingdom
administration to the non-Jew Cornelius and his family. For the
first time special spirit power was activated towards these
first non-Jewish candidates, adopting them also as Sons and
recruits for the Kingdom. Gentiles, non covenanted Jews, could now
take up the invitation to 'sign' the Kingdom contract.
Exactly three and a half years
after Jesus' death in April 33, the recruiting
period exclusively
extended toward the Jews ended in October 36. The opportunity
now opened for all nationalities to enter the Kingdom
contract with the opportunity of receiving the 'spirit cloaking',
'adoption papers' and 'admission tickets' to this
Kingdom. Some of these disciples received additional special spirit
power tools in order to carry out specific duties on behalf of their
Kingdom assignments (Acts 10:34-48).
This opening up to non Jews followed
the time script of the Jewish program of annual festivals which were
shadows of the things to come Col 2:16-17... eating
and drinking or in respect of a festival or of an observance of
the new moon or of a sabbath; 17 for those things are a shadow of the
things to come, but the reality belongs to the Christ. He
8:5 5 [men] are rendering sacred service in a typical
representation and a shadow of the heavenly things; just as Moses, when
about to make the tent in completion, was given the divine command:
For says he: “See that you make all things after [their] pattern that
was shown to you in the mountain.”
Three and a half years after Jesus'
death on Tishri 15th (15th of October) 36 came the Festival of Booths,
which was another festival of harvest ingathering. This extended multi-national
group of disciples, now 'signing' the contract, became
further 'first fruits' harvested for the Kingdom.
Leviticus 23:39-41 However, on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, (15th Tishri) when you have gathered the produce of the land, you should celebrate the festival of Yahweh seven days. On the first day is a complete rest and on the eighth day is a complete rest. 40 And you must take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of splendid trees, the fronds of palm trees and the boughs of branchy trees and poplars of the torrent valley, and you must rejoice before Yahweh your God seven days. 41 And you must celebrate it as a festival to Yahweh seven days in the year. As a statute to time indefinite during your generations, you should celebrate it in the seventh month.
The dates on which Peter was scheduled
to implement the two keys to the Kingdom have been recorded in a Bible.
The first Key to the Kingdom door was used by Peter when he used divinely
provided knowledge in May 33 at Pentecost the festival of first ripe fruits
(Num 28:26) when the first Jews received the spirit anointing
(Acts 2:1-40).
After three and a half years in October 36 at the festival of Booths Peter used the second Key when he again used divinely provided knowledge this time on behalf of Gentiles non covenanted Jews. He was called on by God to explain to Cornelius the fist non Jew how to enter into the Kingdom. These two keys opened by stages the way of entry into the Kingdom during this privileged generation for any person regardless of nationality or background..
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October 36 marked the end of this special favour extended to the Jewish nation, after this the Jewish system was 'abandoned' by God, Matthew 23:37-38,“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the killer of the prophets and stoner of those sent forth to her,—how often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks together under her wings! But you people did not want it. 38 Look! your house is abandoned to you. It only remained now for it to be completely destroyed as Jesus had predicted, according to the script, within that same 'generation' of time. On the time cue 5th of October 36 the old Jewish system was abandoned by God in favour of the new Kingdom structure now opened to international recruits.
Jesus in Matthew 23:38 described
the first abandoning. He warned the Jewish
nation as represented by Jerusalem "Your house
is abandoned to you". In Daniel 11:17, Jerusalem or
the Jewish system is described as a 'woman' who is to
be brought to ruin. God abandoned this 'woman' the Jewish
religion and system once the extension period for the Abrahamic
covenant has ran out in October 36 at the end of the seventy
weeks of years.
At Revelation 17:3-6 it describes twentieth
century Christendom also as a 'woman'
with a name written on her forehead 'Babylon the Great'. In Revelation
18:2 it says 'Babylon the Great has fallen'. From October
2036 Christendom or Babylon the Great falls from favour and is
abandoned by God, the Christendom covenant claimers are now defunct
their contract torn up.
Rev 17 3-6,
.. I caught sight of a woman sitting upon a scarlet-colored wild beast
that was full of blasphemous names and that had seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and was adorned with gold
and precious stone and pearls and had in her hand a golden cup that was full
of disgusting things and the unclean things of her fornication. 5 And upon
her forehead was written a name, a mystery: “Babylon the Great, the
mother of the harlots and of the disgusting things of the earth.” 6 And I
saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the holy ones and
with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. Well, on catching sight of
her I wondered with great wonderment.
As when the
2,000 year term of the Abrahamic covenant matured in 33 there was an additional three and a half
year period from 33 to 36 by way of dividend pay outs exclusively to these Jews party
to the old contract. It was a time exclusively
available to Jews who could individually take
up the opportunity of signing into the new contract
for the coming new Kingdom.
These former members of Christendom selected
become the last fruits of the Kingdom making up the number to 144,000. During
this period they are made war on by opposers to the Kingdom and by the end
of this three and a half year period they are killed off.
From October 2036 on under the oversight
of a preserved remnant of Kingdom heirs on earth, a new opportunity
will be offered to peoples or all religions nationalities and
backgrounds to become citizens of this now ruling Kingdom government.
These 'Cornelius like' individuals form
a new flock of other sheep that will be gathered together.
Under the education and and oversight of these remaining anointed
Kingdom heirs they become a great crowd of other sheep that
no one can number, they come out of a time of great tribulations
or troubles on the earth and will present themselves as clean before
God by washing their cloths clean in the blood of the Lamb. The door of opportunity
is now open for all to become earthly Kingdom citizens from
October 2036.
John 10:7, 11, 14-16/ 7 Therefore Jesus
said again: “Most truly I say to you, I am the door of the Sheep.
11 am the fine shepherd; the fine shepherd surrenders his soul in behalf
of the sheep. 14 I am the fine shepherd, and I know my sheep and
my sheep know me, 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father;
and I surrender my soul in behalf of the sheep. 16 “And I have other
sheep, which are not of this fold; those also I must bring, and they will
listen to my voice, and they will become one flock, one shepherd.
Rev 7:9-17, 9 After these things I saw, and, look! a great crowd, which no man was able to number, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes; and there were palm branches in their hands. 13 And in response one of the elders said to me: “These who are dressed in the white robes, who are they and where did they come from?” 14 So right away I said to him: “My lord, you are the one that knows.” And he said to me: “These are the ones that come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 15 That is why they are before the throne of God; and they are rendering him sacred service day and night in his temple; and the One seated on the throne will spread his tent over them. 16 They will hunger no more nor thirst anymore, neither will the sun beat down upon them nor any scorching heat, 17 because the Lamb, who is in the midst of the throne, will shepherd them, and will guide them to fountains of waters of life. And God will wipe out every tear from their eyes.”
BABYLON THE GREAT, CHRISTENDOM FALLS
In October 2036 Christendom will 'fall' from its tolerated position, (Rev 18:2) 34 years later it will suffer its complete removal and destruction. Following the pattern when Jerusalem's inhabitants ignored the warning to flee the city before it was destroyed, likewise few of Christendom's one billion members will take advantage of this special period of escape to get out of this condemned religious web.
Rev
18:2 And he cried out with a strong voice, saying: “She has fallen!
Babylon the Great has fallen, and she has become a dwelling place
of demons and a lurking place of every unclean exhalation and a lurking
place of every unclean and hated bird! 3 For because of the wine of the
anger of her fornication all the nations have fallen [victim], and the
kings of the earth committed fornication with her, and the travelling
merchants of the earth became rich due to the power of her shameless luxury.”
4 And I heard another voice out of heaven say: “Get out of her, my people,
if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want
to receive part of her plagues. 5 For her sins have massed together
clear up to heaven, and God has called her acts of injustice to mind.
Christendom, like Judaism with its numerous religious divisions, claims to be in a privileged covenant with God. They, like Judaism, have allowed themselves to become unprepared for the events scheduled and so will also miss the opportunities these bring. As Jesus said to the Jewish religious leaders "The Kingdom of the heavens has drawn near" (Matthew 4:17) and then a little later, that it had "overtaken them and left them behind" (Luke 11:20).
So too, Christendom with its followers making up one quarter of the earth's inhabitants, will be equally complacent. They similarly will not appreciate that the time for the Kingdom opportunity has drawn close for them. The opportunity will also pass them by without them realising it, just as with the Jews in Jesus' day. In fact, just as Judaism was the main source of opposition and pressure against the first century Kingdom representatives, it should be of no surprise to find Christendom opposing and pressurising the twenty first century earthly Kingdom representatives and its great crowd of earthly citizens.
The majority of the religious divisions of Christendom have blown a long way off course from any fundamental Kingdom understanding, some may be a little closer than others, Jesus however did not take the least erroneous division in the confusing Jewish religious system, single that one out and work with it. No! The 'lesser of evils' philosophy was never adopted. A completely new organisational structure was moulded specifically for developing the progressing plans of God.
This new structure was to be
temporary, existing for a short time while it objectives
were accomplished, like the scaffolding around
a building while it is being constructed, once the
building is completed the scaffolding is removed.
Unfortunately religious denominations
and organizations become their own worst enemies;
they are unable to disconnect themselves
from their self created traditions and become enshrined
in their various doctrines and capsulate themselves
in time. Their thinking becomes cemented in time with
various 'established' ideas and practices, making them
inflexible and so un-usable by the 'foreman' with
the task of developing and moulding God's progressive restoration
plan. It requires flexible, co-operative individuals for educating
with new refined information, drawing them together into a
new organisation. This new wine containing clear understanding
on the Revelation information is then able to ferment growing
in strength into a new organisational wine skin.
Through this first century 30 year period
many of the time signs Jesus gave in Matthew chapter 24 were being positively
identified; one of which was the advertising of the Kingdom
and the opportunity of sharing in its construction Matthew
24:14 And this good news of the kingdom
will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations;
and then the end will come. People of
all nationalities came to take hold of this unique opportunity,
tens of thousands were harvested in as further first fruits to the
Kingdom.
Jesus warned that his brothers on Earth would be hated and killed. Individually and collectively they could expect pressures and problems from the Jewish and Pagan religious and the Roman world power. Strangely the Greek scriptures are extremely un-informative on this opposition, seeing as how most of their numbers were killed off, not so much as a 'whiff' of complaint is recorded. Or, perhaps it is not so strange when one realises this was no more than they were expecting and contracted to.
Having been warned by Jesus to anticipate this treatment, they did just that. They were willing to put up with it without moaning, knowing that they would very probably lose their lives to this opposition during their 'generation period'. Even the last surviving apostle in his writings makes no references to the murders and executions of his other apostle brothers. Their attitude was to uphold their side of the contract to death, looking forward to the rewards to come later. The furthest thing from their minds was building up any central world Church organisation, their structure was transitional and limited in its allotted time of existence.
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By the year 56 Paul wrote to his fellow Kingdom contractors expressing concern that the limited period they had left was by then greatly reduced 1 Corinthians 7:29 "Moreover, this I say, brothers, the time left is reduced". Since 33 some 23 years had passed leaving only 14 years remaining. By the mid sixties this special Christian structure was coming to its end, the effects of the antichrist had started to eat in as Acts 20:29 says: "Oppressive wolves will come among you and will not treat the group with care and some among you will start speaking deceptive things to get the disciples following after themselves".. Later in 2 Peter 2:1 written about the year 64 it says: "There will be false teachers among you, quietly bringing in destructive sects and will disown even the owner, many follow their acts of loose conduct".
The first century recruitment work was drawing to its close, the allotted time was running out, God's special provision for giving out the power assistance of the spirit was coming to its end, the period was ending, the 'recruiting office' was closing down, the year 66 was fast approaching. As the days drew towards their finish a determined resolve was needed to hang on in until their lives ended. False non 'anointed' teachers were doing their best to draw away many, operating inside or on the fringe of their structure. These did not carry the spirit power, although possibly claiming they did, in order to gain credibility.
Not all among the congregations were 'adopted Sons'. As this deteriorating situation continued to develop some fell foul to the antichrist teachings, throwing away their lives and their tickets to the Kingdom. By the year 98 the very last ones who had held firmly onto their tickets were now old and close to dying.
The last apostle remaining alive, said
at 1 John 2:18 "There are now many Christ opposing deceivers,
from this situation we know it is the last hour."
The last hour of the original unique first century Christian structure
had arrived, that generation of anointed had all but died off.
Following this there would be a very long period when there would
be no spirit anointed Kingdom representatives alive on the Earth.
The exact number of 'ticketed' original Christians keeping their
side of the contract remaining faithful to death we do not know. But
whatever the number was, we do know it fell far short and this shortfall
will need to be calculated and made up at a later date.
At the end of the first century
generation period the provision of the 'spirit helper' faded
away with the deaths of its carriers. Jesus' active involvement
with them through this generation leading up to the end of the
Jewish system came to its finish Mat 28:20
teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you. And, look!
I am with you all the days until the conclusion of the system of things." Since then and for the last 1,900 years the spirit helper has not been operative.
It becomes active again when God at his appointed time reintroduces
its distribution through Jesus' renewed activities for new Kingdom recruits.
This time marker is highlighted by Jesus in Matthew 24:15-16 where he informed his disciples; "When you see the 'desolating thing' that causes destruction standing in a holy place, as referred to by Daniel, the reader should figure it out, then those in Judea should escape to the mountains". To understand this unusual sign, Jesus refers us back to the book of Daniel. At Daniel 12:11 the angel tells us that "From the time that the 'constant feature' or continual sacrifice is removed, and the 'desolating thing' that causes destruction appears, there will be 1,290 days until it all comes to its end".
What is this 'desolating thing' that causes destruction? The disciple Luke in his account of the same dialogue of Jesus, at Luke 21:20-21 written between 56 and 58, this time quotes Jesus as saying "When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near. Then those in Judea must flee to the mountains". These two references to the same event, the 'desolating thing' that causes destruction proves to be the armies that encamped around Jerusalem. This history confirms as the Roman armies who came against Jerusalem in 66, withdrew and returned again in 70 to destroy it.
The reason Jesus gave this warning to his disciples was so that when they identified the arrival of these destroying armies they could make a quick life saving exit. But, if the army is surrounding Jerusalem how could they escape the city? To get answers we need to take Jesus' advise and go back for the information in Daniel.
An angel is explaining to Daniel when the 'final things' would occur (Dan 12: 6-7), Daniel asks specifically: "What would be the last part of the final situation?" (vs 8) The answer came back "From the time that the regular burnt offering is taken away and the abomination that desolates is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days" (3 years 7 months). Verse twelve adds: "Happy is the one who survives and reaches the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days" three years eight and a half months, or one and a half months longer.
The call for the time to flee would be after three things had been witnessed.
1st, after the regular burnt sacrifice had been stopped.
2nd, when the 'desolating thing' had appeared marking the time to flee.
3rd, following these two events an opportunity should present itself making it possible for those responding to escape Jerusalem.
During the first performance the Jews were initially willing subjects to the Roman world power, offering religious sacrificial ceremonies on its behalf at their temple in Jerusalem. However, the appointed Roman governor Gessius Florus had inflamed the hatred of the Jews against him through his oppressive and corrupt management of their affairs.
In August 66 some factions of the Jewish nation took affairs into their own hands, withheld their taxes and stopped the sacrifices at the temple on behalf of the Romans. According to Josephus's record, in the summer of the year 66 a captain of the temple guard, Eleazar, persuaded some of the working shifts of priests officiating the sacrifices to occasionally reject the twice daily sacrifice made by the Jews on behalf of the Emperor and the people of Rome. Civil war had broken out in Jerusalem between a pro Roman division and a rebel alliance. About the 2nd of August 66, (15th Louis/Ab) Eleazar and his rebels besieged the fortress used by the Romans as their garrison. The removing of this daily sacrifice to Rome coupled with outright attack on the Roman troops stationed in Jerusalem constituted a full declaration of war on Rome. Eleazar's nationally fanatic rebels held control of the temple, they made sure the daily sacrifices to Rome were no longer carried out. These acts of revolt were followed by a massacre of the Roman guard in Jerusalem on the 26th of August 66. The city of Jerusalem then became dominated by Jewish rebels bringing the entire nation into a state of war with the Roman world power.
Burnt
Sacrifices stopped August 66
2. When does the 'desolating
thing' 'Jerusalem surrounded
by armies', appear?
The Jewish rebellion roused Rome to action.
By early October 66, Cestius Gallus, with the 12th legion and auxiliaries,
about 18,000 men, marched into Israel on the 18th
of October 66 (30th Hyperberetus, Tishri) and camped
around Jerusalem.
Desolating thing appears October 66 get ready to flee!
3. How did an opportunity present
itself to flee Jerusalem.
Cestius, after lengthy negotiations
with various Jewish parties
struck at Jerusalem with a full assault. The Jews fought back;
for five days the Romans attacked the walls and on the sixth
day they tried to break into the temple but the Jews fought
them off. The Romans resorted to undermining the wall and setting
fire to the gates. The Jews were panicking and close to capitulation
when suddenly, Gallus, for no seeming reason, suspends the assault,
abandons the siege and contrary to all expectation retreats by
the end of December 66.
Roman army withdraws December 66;
Opportunity to flee Jerusalem before the Roman
armies return.
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Once the disgusting thing, the Roman armies, had withdrawn from the city, the opportunity to flee Jerusalem came. Many thousands of people who had heeded Jesus and his disciples' warnings, fled and did not return. This separating of themselves from the inhabitants of Jerusalem, resulted in saving their lives. When the Romans did return to finish the task they killed almost a quarter of a million inhabitants of Jerusalem, no wonder Jesus wept when he predicted it (Luke 19:41-44).
The end of December of the year 66 marks our time cue, all three markers of Jesus and Daniel's prophecies were by then in place.
1. The daily sacrifices for the Romans ceased August 66.
2. The Roman armies, the 'disgusting thing', appeared and withdrew by the end of December 66.
3. The way was opened to get out of this doomed city.
TIME TEMPLATE 66 PLUS 2,000 YEARS OVER LAYS 2066
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THE SIGNS OF JESUS & DANIEL 2033 to 2066
In chapter 8 are listed 12 prophecies
and events recorded in the book of Daniel, signs to occur through
this same 'generation' period as the signs of Jesus. Of these
12 signs 6 were not in evidence during the first application period.
We can anticipate all 12 signs having their major application
marking this final 'generation' along with the second application of the 3 time prophecies in Daniel's
template during the period 2033
to 2070.
The important time cue, December
66, is marked by the appearance of the 'detestable desolating
thing' as prophesied by Daniel and also by
Jesus in Matthew 24:15. This desolating thing
can be anticipated to reappear on the world stage.
In the first century the
desolating thing proved to be the Roman armies encamped around
Jerusalem. So what in the final application
period is the 'desolating thing' assuming the role of the Roman
armies? What is the corresponding modern day 'wrongful daily
sacrifice' made to the Romans that was stopped? Once again when
they have been identified, the warning to 'flee' goes out in order
to avoid a similar destruction that came to Jerusalem and will
come on Christendom. The date the 31st of December 66 when the Roman armies
unexpectedly withdrew aligns with a template plotted date to December
2066.
It has previously been suggested the head could possibly identify the recovery of the Russian world power. This eighth world power beast, after recovering, over the next 30 years draws to itself a large contingency of supporting nations (Rev 17:12,16), suggesting that it builds a confederacy of national allies. It is this fully recovered eighth world power that takes on the mantle of the original Roman power.
The events involving the Jewish
nation and the destructive Roman world power can be re-run by examining
developments within this second application.
At some stage representatives of these national powers may, like Florus, deal oppressively with sections of Christendom, inciting hatred and rebellion from within certain denominations. Retaliation could lead to the withdrawal of Christendom's political support and religious intercessions on behalf of these national powers. According to the pattern this could well be followed by some outrageous rebellious acts around August 2066, bringing Christendom into a state of major conflict with the leading world power.
By October 2066 Christendom may have stopped performing religious services on behalf of the world power, causing this 'constant feature' to be removed, removing their services of support, ceremonies, prayers and blessings, instructing their members not to co-operate with the political powers. These acts lead to its eventual destruction. From then on the 'King of the South', the modern Jerusalem Christendom, enters a period of 'pushing' against the 'King of the North', the prevailing world political power (Dan 12:11, 8:13, 11:40).
The Jewish revolt brought the Roman
armies under Cestius Gallus and the laying siege to Jerusalem. Following
protracted negotiating, the army attacked. After only six days of fighting,
with Jerusalem on the brink of defeat, Gallus inexplicably withdrew and
retreated by the end of December 66. This brought a short period of time
when people could heed Jesus' warning and those of his Kingdom representatives
to flee Jerusalem and avoid its coming destruction.
In the second performance the Eighth world power may attack Christendom by the end of December 2066 just when it looks like destroying Christendom, for some unexplained reason withdraws. This allows many in Christendom's religions to respond to the warning and escape destruction along with it (Daniel 11:41).
Christendom, like the Jews,
may presumptuously assume the withdrawal is because God
is protecting her. According to the prophecy pattern, the
king of the north returns, but not before the people are warned
by the remaining representatives of the anointed group on earth
to get out from these doomed religious denominations and join themselves
to God's Kingdom representatives (Luke 21:20-22).
At this point in time Revelation 18:4 says: "'Get out' of
the city Babylon the Great, if you do not want to be judged as
sharers in her sins, and receive the same punishment". These words
are strikingly similar to Jesus' warning to get out of Jerusalem at
Matthew 24:15-22. Just as in the first century many
people although not anointed Sons, took notice of their warning. So
a great crowd of people, other sheep (John 10:16) heed
the warning given by the remaining anointed members of the Kingdom still
serving on earth to get out of Christendom before it is destroyed and
them along with it (Rev 7:9).
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