The Last Day: Some Main Points To Consider

The name of this Web-Log should explain what I think is important. It is all about the time of the end of the world. It is about that very last day. These are some of the main points that come up when I consider the Last Day:

* the falling away first (see II Thessalonians 2:3)

* the coming of the abomination of desolation to stand in the holy place to show himself god (see II Thessalonians 2:4, Matthew 24:15, Mark 13:14)

* the strong delusion, that they would believe a lie, that everything is "peace and safety", and that, when they shall say that, then sudden destruction will come upon them -- as a thief in the night (see II Thessalonians 2:11, I Thessalonians 5:2-3)

* The true believers will not be in darkness that that day should come upon them as a thief. (see I Thessalonians 5:4)

* The time has come that judgment must begin at the house of God. (see 1 Peter 4:17)

* the call from Heaven "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues" (see Revelation 18:4)

* the candlestick being taken away from the church (see Revelation 2:5)

* the two witnesses being killed, then 3 1/2 days later standing on their feet, and then ascending into Heaven at God's invitation (see Revelation 11:7, 11-12)

* Jesus spoke to the multitude in parables, and without a parable he did not speak to them. (see Matthew 13:34)

* Jerusalem being surrounded by armies (see Luke 21:20)

* We are to get out of Judea and flee to the mountains. (see Matthew 24:16, Mark 13:14, Luke 21:21)

* Jerusalem is called Babylon and the mother of harlots by God. (see Revelation 17:5)

* The nation of Judah, also referred to by her capital city Jerusalem, is metaphorically called a woman, to whom God was married, and that she had parents, her father being an Amorite and her mother a Hittite. (see Ezekiel 16:3, 45)

* Jerusalem, Samaria (Israel, referred to by her capital city, to whom God was also married) and Sodom are all spiritually referred to as sisters. (see Ezekiel 16:46)

* Jerusalem is called Sodom and Egypt by God. (see Revelation 11:18)

* Jesus is the Word of God made flesh. (see John 1:14)

* Jesus spoke to the multitude in parables and and without a parable he did not speak to them. (see Matthew 13:34)

* Jesus therefore came speaking parables, as the Word of God, throughout the *words* of the whole Bible, including the Old Testament.

* Every word, every letter (every jot), every stroke of every letter that differentiates one letter from another (every tittle) is God-breathed and trustworthy, in the original languages (which we still have!), including the numbers of the Bible, which are all written-out words, not groups of numerals, in the text. (see II Timothy 3:16, Matthew 5:18, Luke 16:17)

* God first divorced the nation of Israel, then, later, her sister Judah (Jesus said that this fig tree shall never again grow fruit).

* The Living God, not the church, is the pillar and ground of truth. (see I Timothy 3:15)

* The 7-year famine in the land of Canaan in Jacob's time was called his great tribulation.

* Israel, then Judah were punished by God. Judah's punishment, a 70-year period, was called great tribulation by God.

* In both cases, the people of God, whom God calls the house of God and the church, were required to leave the Promised Land to remain in covenant with God (and to survive at all), trusting that He would take care of them and bring them back again one day.

* In both cases God sent a messenger to call them out of the Promised Land.

* The New Testament church is called the bride of Christ.

* True believers in Christ are called the "Israel of God", the children of Abraham. (see Galatians 6:16, Galatians 3:7, 3:29, Romans 2:29)

* Noah was informed by God that the world would be destroyed by water in 120 years.

* Noah was warned by God when there were yet 7 days before all flesh that breathed would be killed, and was told to get all his charges, which were all the paired animals plus his family, into the ark during that time.

* Noah was called a preacher of righteousness in the Bible, and therefore told everyone he could find about the coming calamity, but no one believed him.

* 7 days later, God shut the door of the ark, and that very day the flood came.

* Peter, in the midst of comparing the great flood to the final destruction of the world by fire, was motivated to passionately press one point to his listeners, that a day is, with the Lord, as a thousand years and a thousand years as a day.

* The Bible demonstrates by example that the word "begat" does not always refer to a direct father-to-son relationship but sometimes a many-generations-removed antecedent-to-descendant relationship.

* The Bible gives the life-span in years of many of the prehistoric patriarchs, but only one per generation, in a single unbroken line, from Adam, to Seth, to Noah, to Shem, to the Hebrew patriarchs, to Jesus Christ the messiah.

* God gave great life-spans to the prehistoric patriarchs, up to nearly 1,000 years.

* None of the life-spans of the men of the line of Cain are given, so that for all we know, they may have lived about as long a life as does a man today.

* God points out that He gives the special blessing of extra years of life to those of His choosing, using the accounts of the lives of Job, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, King Solomon and King Hezekiah.

* The Bible demonstrates that it refers to the various eras of the Earth's history by a single patriarch and that when one patriarch dies a new patriarch is born, unless the Bible specifically gives another name-and-life-span reference to designate the new patriarchal era.

* One can therefore construct an actual time-line of history that shows the exact time in the past of each of these time references.

* Using these patriarchs and their ages, one can determine that the flood of Noah's day occurred almost 7,000 years ago, with the anniversary being 2011.

* God says that He will do nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets. (see Amos 3:7)

* God says that all of His people in the Last Days will prophesy, which He also defines as declaring the Word of God. (see Acts 2:17-18)

* God says that a wise (i.e. saved) man’s heart discerns both time and judgment. (see Ecclesiastes 8:5)

Quite literally, you do the math.