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The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1925 edition, Vol. 5, page 41, states, "Edom

is in modern Jewry."

The Bible says, that there is neither Jew nor Greek, bond nor free, male nor female, but that we are all one in Christ Jesus

The Bible says, If you believe in Christ Jesus, you are of Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise To God it doesn't matter what your race is. There is no one special race. The Bible says, that he tore down the middle wall of partition. Gods people are anyone that gets saved. The Bible says, that you are not a Jew that is born outwardly, but inwardly and circumcision is of the heart. Below is many articles and encyclopedias almanac ect...proving the people who call themselves Jews today are admitted Gentiles that converted to Judaism in the 7th century. During the Jewish Roman war the Jews except the church and some slaves were all murdered. No one knows what became of the few survivors. The implications are that Jesus is not returning for people who are a special Jewish race. It would mean that Dispensationalists is false. It would also mean that if Jesus was truly who he claimed to be. That he returned in the clouds of judgment in 70 A.D. Only the church made it out safely with the exception of unbelieving Jews that were not destroyed but made slaves. These slaves were sold throughout the world. No one knows what became of the once biblical Jews.

"EDOM IS IN MODERN JEWRY." The Jewish Ency. 1925 Ed., Vol. 5, Pg. 41.

The Jews admit that they are not the descendants of the Ancient Israelites in their writings. Under the heading of “A brief History of the Terms for Jew” in the 1980 Jewish Almanac is the following:

“Strictly speaking it is incorrect to call an ancient Israelite a ‘Jew’ or to call a contemporary Jew an Israelite or a Hebrew.” (1980 Jewish Almanac, p. 3).

“from then on [Edomites] constituted a part of the jewish people, Herod being one of their descendants”, The Standard Jewish Encyclopedia, 1966 Doubleday & Company, Inc , Garden City, New York, Pg. 592.

· why does the jewish encyclopedia mention that "edom is in modern jewry"? that is their own writings - EDOM IS IN MODERN JEWRY." The Jewish Ency. 1925 Ed., Vol. 5, Pg. 41.

· the [non-Israelite] Edomites became a section of the Jewish people. "EDOM," Encyclopaedia Judaica (Jerusalem, Israel: Encyclopaedia Judaica Company, 1971) Vol. 6, p. 378

· They [the non-Israelite Edomites] were then incorporated with the Jewish nation…. "EDOM, IDUMEA," The Jewish Encyclopedia (New York & London: Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1904) Vol. V, p. 41

· …from then on they [the non-Israelite Edomites] constituted a part of the Jewish people, Herod [King of Judea] being one of their descendants. "EDOM (Idumea)," The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1977) p. 589

· …they [the Edomites] were hereafter no other than [non-Israelite] Jews. Flavius Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews (Grand Rapids, MI: Dregel Publications, 1960) Book XIII, Chapter IX, Verse 1, p. 279

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Encyclopedia Americana (1985):

“Khazar, an ancient Turkic speaking people who ruled a large and powerful state in the steppes North of the Caucasus Mountains from the 7th century to their demise in the mid 11th century A.D… In the 8th Century it’s political and religious head… as well as the greater part of the Khazar nobility, abandoned paganism and converted to Judaism… (The Khazars are believed to be the ancestors of most Russian and Eastern European Jews).”

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Encyclopedia Britannica (15th edition):

“Khazars, confederation of Turkic and Iranian tribes that established a major commercial empire in the second half of the 6th century, covering the southeastern section of modern European Russia… In the middle of the 8th century the ruling classes adopted Judaism as their religion.”

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Academic American Encyclopedia (1985):

“Ashkenazim, the Ashkenazim are one of the two major divisions of the Jews, the other being the Shephardim.”

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Encyclopedia Americana (1985):

“Ashkenazim, the Ashkenazim are the Jews whose ancestors lived in German lands…it was among Ashkenazi Jews that the idea of political Zionism emerged, leading ultimately to the establishment of the state of Israel… In the late 1960s, Ashkenazi Jews numbered some 11 million, about 84 percent of the world Jewish population.”

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The Jewish Encyclopedia:

“Khazars, a non-Semitic, Asiatic, Mongolian tribal nation who emigrated into Eastern Europe about the first century, who were converted as an entire nation to Judaism in the seventh century by the expanding Russian nation which absorbed the entire Khazar population, and who account for the presence in Eastern Europe of the great numbers of Yiddish-speaking Jews in Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Galatia, Besserabia and Rumania.”

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The Encyclopedia Judaica (1972):

“Khazars, a national group of general Turkic type, independent and sovereign in Eastern Europe between the seventh and tenth centuries C.E. During part of this time the leading Khazars professed Judaism… In spite of the negligible information of an archaeological nature, the presence of Jewish groups and the impact of Jewish ideas in Eastern Europe are considerable during the Middle Ages. Groups have been mentioned as migrating to Central Europe from the East often have been referred to as Khazars, thus making it impossible to overlook the possibility that they originated from within the former Khazar Empire.”

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The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia:

“The primary meaning of Ashkenaz and Ashkenazim in Hebrew is Germany and Germans. This may be due to the fact that the home of the ancient ancestors of the Germans is Media, which is the Biblical Ashkenaz… Krauss is of the opinion that in the early medieval ages the Khazars were sometimes referred to as Ashkenazim… About 92 percent of all Jews or approximately 14,500,000 are Ashkenazim.”

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New Grolier Encyclopedia:

Khazars {kah’z-ars} The Khazars, a Turkic people, created a commercial and political empire that dominated substantial parts of South Russia during much of the 7th through 10th centuries. During the 8th century the Khazar aristocracy and the kagan (king) were converted to Judaism. The Khazars established their capital at Itil (or Atil), in the Volga delta, and for four centuries thereafter this Jewish empire held the balance of power between the Christian Byzantine Empire and the Muslim Caliphate. The fortified Khazar city of Sarkil on the lower Don River was built with Byzantine help and served as a crossroads to central Asia. The Khazars controlled many of the trade routes to the Orient; some of the Radhanites (Jewish merchants from Gaul), for example, were accustomed to crossing the Khazar empire while traveling to and from China and India. During the late 10th and early 11th centuries an alliance of Byzantines and Russians broke the power of the Khazars in the Crimea. In 965, Svyatoslav I, duke of Kiev, decisively defeated the Khazar army. Further to the east new waves of Turkic invaders overran the remains of the Khazar state.

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The Bible:

Relates that the Khazar (Ashkenaz) Jews were/are the sons of Japheth not Shem:

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“Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood. The sons of Japheth;…the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz…” (Genesis 10:1-3)

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Therefore, the Bible proves that the Ashkenaz Jews [Khazars] are not the descendants of Shem and cannot be Semite.

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Kimyarite King Adopts Judaism and Converts His Army and People: Kimyarite (Himyarite) see Sabeans (Jewish Encyclopedia, p. 403)

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Sabeans: The inhabitants of the ancient kingdom of Sheba in southeastern Arabia, known from the Bible, classical writers, and native inscriptions. The genealogies of Genesis give three pedigrees for Sheba, the eponymous ancestor of the Sabeans, who is variously termed

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1. the son of Raamah and the grandson of Cush, (Genesis 10:7; 1 Chronicles 1:9; comp. Ezekiel 27:22; 38:13)

2. the son of Joktan and a great-great-grandson of Shem, (Genesis 10:28; 1 Chronicles 1:22) and

3. the son of Jokshan and a grandson of Abraham by Keturah. (Genesis 25:3; 1 Chronicles 1:32)

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There seem, therefore, to have been three stocks of Sabeans: one in Africa, (comp. the Ethiopian city of Saga mentioned by Strabo, ‘Geography,’ p. 77) and the other two in Arabia.

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The Outline of History by H. G. Wells:

“It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew’s ancestors ‘never’ lived in Palestine ‘at all,’ which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.”

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Facts Are Facts, by Benjamin Freedman:

Following is the story of the conversion of a tribe of people in Russia to Judaism and is the origin of more than 95% of the Jews of Eastern Europe.

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“Without a complete and accurate knowledge of the origin and history of the ‘Jews’ in Eastern Europe… it is quite impossible for [Christians] to intelligently understand the harmful influence the Jews have exerted for ten centuries…’

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You will probably be astonished as many Christians were years ago when I electrified the nation with the first publication by me of the facts disclosed by my many years of research into the origin and the history of the ‘Jews’ in Eastern Europe. My many years of intensive research established beyond the question of any doubt, contrary to the generally accepted belief held by Christians, that the ‘Jews’ in Eastern Europe at any time in their history in Eastern Europe were never the legendary ‘lost ten tribes’ of Bible lore. That historic fact is incontrovertible.

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Relentless research established as equally true that the ‘Jews’ in Eastern Europe at no time in their history could be correctly regarded as the direct lineal descendants of the legendary ‘lost ten tribes’ of Bible lore. The ‘Jews’ in Eastern Europe in modern history cannot legitimately point to a single ancient ancestor who ever set even a foot on the soil of Palestine in the era of Bible history.

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Research also revealed that the ‘Jews’ in Eastern Europe were never ‘Semites,’ are not ‘Semites’ now, nor can they ever be regarded as ‘Semites’ at any future time by any stretch of the imagination. Exhaustive research also irrevocably rejects as a fantastic fabrication the generally accepted belief by Christians that the ‘Jews’ in Eastern Europe are the legendary ‘Chosen People’ so very vocally publicized by the Christian clergy from their pulpits…”

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The American Peoples Encyclopedia for 1954 at 15-292 records the following in reference to the Khazars:

“In the year 740 A.D. the Khazars were officially converted to Judaism. A century later they were crushed by the incoming Slavic-speaking people and were scattered over central Europe where they were known as Jews.

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From the above, we can clearly see that the Jews fully understand their Khazarian heritage as the third edition of the Jewish Encyclopedia for 1925 records:

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“Chazars [Khazars]: A people of Turkish origin whose life and history are interwoven with the very beginnings of the history of the Jews of Russia. The kingdom of the Chazars was firmly established in most of South Russia long before the foundation of the Russian monarchy by the Varangians (855).

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Jews have lived on the shores of the Black and Caspian seas since the first centuries of the common era [after the death of Christ]. Historical evidence points to the region of the Ural as the home of the Chazars. Among the classical writers of the Middle Ages they were known as the ‘Chozars,’ ‘Khazirs,’ ‘Akatzirs,’ and ‘Akatirs,’ and in the Russian chronicles as ‘Khwalisses’ and ‘Ugry Byelyye.’…”

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The Encyclopedia Judaica, Vol. 10, (1971) relates the following about the Khazars (Chazars):

“Khazars, a national group of general Turkic type, independent and sovereign in Eastern Europe between the seventh and tenth centuries A.D. During part of this time the leading Khazars professed Judaism.”

(Encyclopedia Judicia, Vol. 10, (1971))

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The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia:

“Khazars, a medieval people, probably related to the Volga Bulgars, whose ruling class adopted Judaism during the 8th cent. The Khazars seem to have emerged during the 6th cent., from the vast nomadic Hun (Turki) empire which stretched from the steppes of Eastern Europe and the Volga basin to the Chinese frontier. Although it is often claimed that allusions to the Khazars are found as early as 200 C.E., actually they are not mentioned until 627…Most Jewish Historians date the conversion of the Khazar King to Judaism during the first half of this century {A.D.}…”

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Academic American Encyclopedia, Deluxe Library Edition, Volume 12, page 66 states:

“The Khazars, a Turkic people, created a commercial and political empire that dominated substantial parts of South Russia during much of the 7th through 10th centuries. during the 8th century the Khazar aristocracy and the Kagan (King) were converted to Judaism.”

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The New Encyclopedia Britannica, Volume 6, page 836 relates:

“Khazar, member of a confederation of Turkic-speaking tribes that in the late 6th century A.D. established a major commercial empire covering the southeastern section of modern European Russia…but the most striking characteristic of the Khazars was the apparent adoption of Judaism by the Kagan and the greater part of the ruling class in about 740…The fact itself, however, is undisputed and unparalleled in the history of Central Eurasia. A few scholars have asserted that the Judaized Khazars were the remote ancestors of many of the Jews of Eastern Europe and Russia.”

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Collier’ s Encyclopedia, Volume 14, page 65 states:

“Khazars [kaza’rz], a semi-nomadic tribe of Turkish or Tatar origin who first appeared north of the Caucasus in the early part of the third century…in the Eighth Century Khaghan Bulan decided in favor of the Jews and accepted Judaism for himself and for his people…”

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New Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume VIII, page 173 relates:

“The Khazars were an ethnic group, belonging to the Turkish peoples, who, toward the end of the 2d century of the Christian Era, had settled in the region between the Caucasus and the lower Volga and Don Rivers…At the beginning of the 8th century, dynastic ties bound the Khazars more closely to Constantinople, which led to a limited spread of Christianity among them. They also became acquainted with Judaism from the numerous Jews who lived in the Crimea and along the Bosphorus. When the Byzantine Emperor, Leo the Isaurian, persecuted the Jews in A.D. 723, many Jews found refuge in the Khazar kingdom, and their influence was so great that, around the middle of the 8th Century, the King of the Khazars and many of the Khazar nobility accepted the Jewish faith.

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The Cadillac Modern Encyclopedia, page 822, states:

“Khazars (khah’-zahrz), a S Russian people of Turkic origin, who at the height of their power (during the 8th-10th cent., A.D.) controlled an empire which included Crimea, and extended along the lower Volga, as far E as the Caspian Sea. The Khazar Royal Family and aristocracy converted to Judaism during the reign of King Bulan (768-809 A.D.) and Judaism was thereafter regarded as the State Religion…”

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The Jewish author, Arthur Koestler, relates the following concerning Jewish history: In his 1976 bestseller The Thirteenth Tribe, the Author of Darkness at Noon, Promise and Fulfillment, and The Roots of Coincidence dropped another bombshell by proving that today’s Jews were, for the most part, descendants of Khazars, who converted to Judaism seven centuries after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D.

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“This, of course, is inspired by the story of the Covenant in Genesis; and it implies that the Khazars too claimed the status of a Chosen Race, who made their own Covenant with the Lord, even though they [Khazars] were not descended from Abraham’s seed … He cannot, and does not, claim for them [the Khazars] Semitic descent, he traces their [Khazars] ancestry not to Shem, but to Noah’s third son, Japheth or more precisely to Japheth’s grandson, Togarma, the ancestor of all Turkish tribes.

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‘We have found in the family registers of our fathers,’ Joseph asserts boldly, ‘that Togarma had ten sons, and the names of their offspring are as follows: Uigur, Dursu, Avars, Huns, Basilii, Tarniakh, Khazars, Zagora, Bulgars, Sabir. We [Khazars] are the sons of Khazar, the seventh…'” (The Thirteenth Tribe, Arthur Koestler, pages 58-82)

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The Jewish author Alfred M. Lilienthal relates the following concerning Jewish history:

“…The existence of [The State of] Israel is not founded on logic. It has no ordinary legitimacy. There is neither in its establishment nor present scope any evident justice – though there may be an utter need and wondrous fulfillment.’…

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Arthur Koestler answers this question with an emphatic ‘NO!’ In his 1976 best seller The Thirteenth Tribe, he dropped another bombshell by proving that today’s Jews were, for the most part, descendants of Khazars, who converted to Judaism seven centuries after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D… Therefore, the great majority of Eastern European Jews are not Semitic Jews at all, and as most Western European Jews came from East Europe, most of them also are not Semitic Jews. Thus, maintains Koestler, the veins of 45 percent of Israelis (save only the Arab and the Sephardic Jews), plus a big majority of Jews around the world, are utterly vacant of corpuscular links to the tribe of Moses and Solomon…

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The Koestler thesis, however startling, is in no wise a new one. The genetic Khazar derivation of most Jews, only the Sephardic may be accounted Hebrews by blood, has been long if not widely known…The home to which Weismann, Silver, Ben-Gurion and so many other Ashkenazim Zionists have long yearned to return has most likely never been theirs… [it is an] anthropological fact, many Christians may have much more Hebrew-Israelite blood in their veins than most of their Jewish neighbors!

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Ironically enough, too, Volume IV of the Jewish Encyclopedia (as of the time of research, 1952), because this publication spelled Khazars with a ‘C’ instead of a ‘K,’ is titled ‘Chazars to Dreyfus.’ And it was the famed trial of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, as interpreted by Theodore Herzl, that made the modern Jewish Khazars of Russia…forget their descent from converts to Judaism…to establish the State of Israel… and with out the hue and cry, ‘Anti-Semitism,’ pray what happens to the Zionist movement?

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Khazar conversion was not unique…who can say for sure that many Christian readers of this book might not in fact have a better claim, which they do not choose to exercise, to go back ‘home’ to Palestine than Hannah Semer, Menachem Begin, or Golda Meir? Queen Victoria herself belonged to an Israelite society that traced the ancestry of its membership back to the lost tribes of Israel.

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When the word ‘Judaism’ was born, there was no longer a Hebrew-Israelite State. The people who embraced the creed of Judaism were already a mixture of many nations, races, and strains, and this diversification was rapidly growing…” (The Zionist Connection II, Alfred M. Lilienthal, pp. 759-768)

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Anti-Semitism: The word anti-Semitism was an invention; H.H. Beamish, in a New York address, October 30 – November 1, 1937:

“In 1848 the word ‘anti-Semitic’ was invented by the Jews to prevent the use of the word ‘Jew.’ The right word for them is ‘Jew’.”https://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2012/12/03/ashkenazis-self-styled-jews-are-not-the-descendants-of-the-ancient-israelites/

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Most people in the United States and some even abroad are looking forward to a future rapture of the church. I was one of those people. I loved trying to find out who the anti-Christ was and trying to figure out Revelation. Then a friend of mine who is also my aunt brought some tapes over that changed my life. At first, I thought it was crazy and did not want to believe it, but the proof was overwhelming. The rapture doctrine has only been around since the 1830's. Every generation since then claim to be the last generation of Matthew 24. They also preach from the pulpits that God is coming any minute and then it doesn't happen. The truth is that Jesus said in Matthew 23:29-39 to the Pharisees and Sadducees to fill ye up the measure of your fathers. Here Jesus is talking about filling up the cup of blood that had been shed on the prophets. Then he says-” That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Brachia’s, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. It was the great whore of Rev who was guilty of all the blood shed on the earth. Verily I say unto you, all these things shall come upon this generation.” He proceeds to tell the disciples in Matthew 24 what they were going to go through. Then he tells them that when ye (you) see the abomination of desolation. “spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place” He then tells those who are in Judea to flee, which they did when they saw Roman Soldiers surrounding Jerusalem. They remembered Luke's warning when he told them- when ye see Jerusalem surrounded by soldiers flee for the desolation to come. Only the people who believed on Christ escaped while the non-believers were judged. They made it to in nearby city called Pella. The whole scripture in Matthew 24 constantly says “ye” talking about the disciples and people standing there. What they would be going through. He also told them that not one stone would be left upon another (talking about the temple) The problem is we have been taught that bible prophecy is for us. We look over all the “ye's” and make it be for us in the 21st century. Jesus said maybe and his disciples said more often than I can count that he was coming quickly. Christians usually have never heard of the Jewish Roman war that took place exactly 40 years which was one generation from when Jesus ministry started in 30 A.D. If you want to know what one generation is then look in the O T when the bible says that the Israelites wondered in the wilderness for one generation. When Jesus said in Matthew 24 this generation shall not pass away until all these things be fulfilled. Either he kept his word and came in their lifetime or he lied (and we know Jesus did not lie) When he said some of you will not taste of death until you see the son of man coming in the Kingdom of Heaven and when he told the High Priest they would see him coming in the clouds of Heaven he meant it. . Read all the scriptures below and it will become obvious Jesus was coming in their lifetime. The problem is people do not know what coming in the clouds meant in bible prophecy. God came in the clouds many times in the old testament, but it wasn't literal. Read the article “coming in the clouds” on the left-hand side for more examples. Clouds were symbolic for his presence and was always used for judgment. God said many a times that the stars and moon would turn dark or fall. Read the article I wrote on the left about it. Every time he came in the clouds it was for judgment against backslidden Israel or another nation. Read what Moses said. He taught them that there would be one generation that would be destroyed, that generation was the generation that killed Jesus, most of his disciples and lots of his saints. Jesus gave them from 30 A.D to 70 A.D one generation to repent. When they didn't repent he stirred up the Romans and others to destroy Jerusalem. This is how he came in the clouds in the old testament by stirring up another nations army to destroy and enslave others. He also came to rescue his saints from their persecutors by destroying their persecutors, ending the law by fulfilling it, so that he could establish the new covenant. He said in Matthew that not one jot or one tittle of the law would pass away until heaven and earth (the law) had passed away and all things be fulfilled. This was speaking of all the old covenant prophecies. Heaven and earth in bible prophecy was symbolic for covenant. If that scripture was speaking of the literal heavens and earth that would mean we are still under the law, because the literal heaven and earth are still here.The great tribulation took place between 66 ½ and 70 A.D. The bible never talks about a 7 year tribulation. They get this from Daniel chapter 9. Most people teach that's a future covenant with the anti-Christ. Since when did messiah become anti-Christ in the bible? Jesus confirmed the new covenant message for 3 ½ years from when he was 30 to 33 ½ then he was cut off in the mist of Daniels 70th week. Then he gave them on generation to repent. The other 3 ½ years was the great tribulation then the 70th week of Daniel was fulfilled which said- “and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolation’s are determined.” If you want to understand more about Daniels 70th week look to the left and read the article on Daniels 70th week.

Lets focus on the imminent time frame that are in the scriptures. In the greek the word coming in these scriptures means coming to punish Jerusalem and finally the wicked.

• Matt. 10:23 - "Truly I say to you, you will not finish going through the cities of

Israel until the Son of Man comes. "

• Matt. 16:28 - "Truly I say to you, there are some who are standing here who will

not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom."

• Matt. 24:34 - "Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these

things take place." (Jesus' use of "this generation" throughout the gospels always

refers to his contemporaries: 26:36; 11:16; 12:39,41,42 and 45; Luke 11:50-51;

17:25; Mk 8:38)

• Matt. 26:64 - "You [the high priest] will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds

of heaven. "

Mark 8:38 (NASB) "For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels." 9:1 And He was saying to them, "Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who shall not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power."

Matthew 16:27-28 (NKJV) "For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward each according to his works. 28 "Assuredly, I say to you, there are some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom."

When you read mark 8:38 and 9:1 it is obvious that he is talking to the current group of contemporaries, which is what generation means. Notice in Mark it says “when he comes in the glory of his father with his angels.” Then read Matthew 16:27-28 and this says when he comes in the glory of his father...then it says he will reward each according to his works. Lots of people who are futurists try to say that Mark 8:38 is not talking about the 2nd coming, but when you compare it to Matthews exact scripture it says “when he comes to reward each” This does not heppen until the 2nd coming, proving that both Mark and Matthew are both saying that those that were standing there would not die until they saw God coming in the 2nd coming.

Matthew 24:34 (NKJV) "Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place.

Jesus said to Peter:

John 21:21-22 (NKJV) Peter, seeing him, said to Jesus, "But Lord, what about this man

(John)?" 22 Jesus said to him, "If I will that he remain till I come, what is that to you? You follow Me."

Paul said to the Roman Christians:

Romans 13:11-12 (NKJV) And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. 12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

Romans 16:20 (NKJV) And the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

Paul said to the Corinthian Christians:

1 Corinthians 1:7-8 (NKJV) so that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, 8 who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2

1 Corinthians 7:29-31 (NKJV) But this I say, brethren, the time is short, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they had none, 30 those who weep as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, those who buy as though they did not possess, 31 and those who use this world as not misusing it. For the form of this world is passing away.

1 Corinthians 10:11 (NKJV) Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

Time references in the book of Revelation -

• 'tax-st, tachos and en tachei means "quickly, all at once, with all speed, without

delay."

o Revelation 1:1 - "...things which must shortly take place"

o Revelation 2: 16 - "Repent, or else I will come to you quickly"

o Revelation 3: 11 - "Behold, I come quickly!"

o Revelation 22:6 - "...things which must shortly take place."

o Revelation 22:7 - "Behold, I am coming quickly!"

o Revelation 22:12 - "Behold, I am coming quickly."

o Revelation 22:20 - "Surely I am coming quickly."

• eyyuc;, engus means "at hand, near"

o Revelation 1:3 - "The time is near."

o Revelation 22:10 - "The time is at hand."

• JlelJ...et, mello, mellei means "about to, on the point or verge of'

o Revelation 1:19 - "Write ... the things that are about to take place."

o Revelation 3: 10 - "... the hour of trial ... is about to come upon the whole

world."

There are other New Testament indications of a first-century return of Jesus:

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• Rom. 13: 11-12 - "You know what hour it is, how it is full time now for you to

wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed;

the night is far gone, the day is at hand. "

• 1 Cor. 7:29-31 - "Brethren, the appointed time has grown very short; from now

on, let those who have wives live as though they had none, and those who mourn

as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not

rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had no goods, and those who deal

with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the form of this world (the age of law keeping)

is passing away."

• 1 Cor. 10:11 - "On [us] the ends of the ages have come."

• Phil. 4:5 - "The Lord is at hand."

• James 5:8-9 - "The coming of the Lord is at hand .... Behold, the Judge is standing

at the door."

• 1 Pet. 4:7 - "The end of all things is at hand."

• 1 Jn. 2: 18 - "It is the last hour ... we know that it is the last hour."

It was also crystal clear that his coming was imminent and that Christ coming was going to be in that generation Matt 24:34. He gave the Jews one generation to repent of their sins. He gave them from the time he was crucified in 30 A.D until 70 A.D.

Read the parable the following parable, it's obvious that Jesus is referring to what was going to happen to him and his saints. And then at the end Jesus makes it clear it is referring to what was going to happened at the end in 70 A.D.

Matthew 22:1-3 And Jesus answered and spoke unto them again by parables, and said, 2The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, (God) which made a marriage for his son(Jesus), 3And sent forth his servants (apostles) to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. Matthew 22:4-10 Again, he sent fourth other servants (apostles), saying, tell them which are bidden, behold, I have prepared my dinner: Oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all the things are ready: Come unto the marriage. But they made light of it, and went there ways, one to his farm another to his merchandise and the remnant took his servants (apostles), and in treated them spitefully, and slew them, but when the king (God) heard there off, He was wroth: and he sent fourth his armies (Roman armies 70 A.D) and destroyed those murderers, and burned up there city (70 A.D destruction of Jerusalem and the temple because there was no need for the Temple because no longer did they need the blood of bulls and goats but they had Jesus blood wash away their sins when God established the New Covenant of Grace). Then saith he to his servants (apostles) the wedding is ready, they (Jewish people who rejected Christ) which were bidden were not worthy go ye therefore unto the highways, and as many as ye shall find bid to the marriage. (Anyone who accepted Christ and repented and was baptized and filled with the holy ghost entered into a marriage relationship with Christ and was saved)

The marriage supper was already prepared before the destruction of Jerusalem, so the invitation to

the marriage feast was literally nothing more than the preaching of the gospel to the lost, which brought

a person into a marriage relationship with Jesus Christ under the New Covenant. The servants

destroyed were the apostles, so God destroyed Jerusalem.

They "gathered together" those who would come. This is the "gathering together of the elect" in

Matthew 24 Once Jerusalem and it's people who God was married to at Mt Sinai were destroyed in 70 A.D he was able to marry his new bride the church Jew and Gentile in one body. Those that accepted his new covenant and were saved. If you read in Revelation 19:17 God invites the birds to the great supper of the Lord, then in verse 18 he says that ye may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of captains and the flesh of mighty men. This proves the marriage supper was not a literal supper for the saints, but a parable. We know this supper for the birds took place in 70 A.D

Wheat and Tares

Matthew 13:23-30 & 36-40

23But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

24Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man (Jesus) which sowed good seed (the gospel) in his field:

25But while men slept, his enemy (the devil) came and sowed tars(weeds which represent the wicked)among the wheat(represents Gods saints), and went his way.

26But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.

27So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?

28He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?

29But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares(the wicked), ye root up also the wheat(saints) with them.

30Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares(the wicked), and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.

36Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.

37He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;

38The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;

39The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world (Greek word age); and the reapers are the angels.

40As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world (Greek word age)

Notice that like the story of the wedding feast the story of the wheat and the tares ends with the wicked being burned with fire. That is because at the end of their age in 70 A.D the wicked were burned and totally destroyed along with their city.

Notice also that the tares are taken (which represent the wicked) and are destroyed first which is the opposite teaching of a future rapture, where the church is supposedly taken first.

Last notice that God has the wheat(saints) and the tares(the wicked) grow up together until the harvest. This also is in contradiction to what futurists teach will happen in the future. They teach that the saints(wheat) are taken and then the wicked(tares) destroyed.

Most people say that the abomination of desolation is a future anti-Christ setting himself up in a future rebuilt temple as God. I challenge futurists to give me one scripture that says anything close to that. Here is what Lukes account of what the abomination of desolation was goig to be-

Luke 21:20-24 And when ye (you) shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. (this was a warning to Gods people that when they would see the Roman armies to flee the city)

21Then let them which are in Judea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter there into. (This was also a warning for the people during that time who were gong to be in Judea and in the field who were Christians to get out of there)

22For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.

23But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. ( Notice it says this land and not the whole world,and also notice it says this people not all people)

24And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. (this happened in 70A.D the time of the gentiles was the time God gave the gentiles to destroy Jerusalem.) Knowing that bible prophecy has been fulfilled takes the fear of a future anti-Christ and future revelation type doom away. What I really love is that Jesus invites any one who wants to come and drink from waters of spiritual life and become spiritually alive in Rev 22. Then when you physically die you don't really die because you are spiritually alive and live with christ for eternity.

Read the article to the left by Pastor Smith- the abomination of desolation. I found a video that is totally, Not boring. that explains end

tines better than any one I have ever heard! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpnQSfyUknw&feature=youtu.be