We would ask you to take your Bibles and fill in the blanks to the following passages given throughout this page.
This is going to be a study of the word of God and as such using our Bibles is very necessary. We don't want you to take our word for things, we don't want you to simply read what we have written, we desire that you read them for yourselves straight from the Word of God. May the Lord help us all as we open our Bibles and seek out His truths and understanding.
Please Look Up Jude 14, 15 - "And _____ also, the seventh from Adam, _____________ of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are _______ among them, of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their ____ speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him."
This is a prophecy given of the end times way back to the seventh from Adam. How awesome is our God. While time in our finite existence isn’t as time in God’s infinite existence, we can truly witness the amazing love he has for us in yet another way. He’s not bringing the end about, he’s not coming to execute his judgment upon all without plenty of warning. He uses prophecies to give us sign of his return and he’s made it so that every generation has seen something in the signs that keeps them knowing He will return, allowing each generation to prepare if they’re able to discern the signs.
Some scoff and say ever since Jesus died each generation has thought they were the last one. I say, praise the Lord! Is there a better way to live that than to believe in your Lord’s return and being ready for him?
One thing about the Lord’s word, it is sure-- Read (1 Pet 1:25) "The ____ of the Lord endureth _________."
How long?
Think on it a little bit more, contemplate this if you will. In God’s amazing wisdom he allows us in the year 2007 going fast into 2008, to understand prophecy through history. We can look at these wonderful prophecies that have made little sense to many for years and see how his unfolding plan has played out over time. It is this more than many frivolous, yet well-intentioned meetings to get me to understand the Bible, that has truly opened my eyes. If God’s prophecies have unfolded in the past and I can see that in history, there is nothing, and I mean nothing to stop the rest of his prophecies from unfolding, nothing that will keep the unfilled prophecies from taking place if all the others have come true over the hundreds and thousands of years they were predicted beforehand.
Let me interject for a moment here, please, not for one moment think I’m belittling the power of conversion and the love of God, accepted in his Son Jesus. We can have all the knowledge in the world and it would avail us nothing if we don’t have the love of Christ within us first. It’s with this amazing love and all-powerful forgiveness through Jesus’ sacrifice that we are even able to take into our hearts the understanding He offers through his Holy Spirit’s guidance. Heart knowledge is powerful, knowledge without the heart’s conversion it is powerless. In the previous web pages on our site we hope that we’ve revealed that love and that you’ve been able to give your heart to Jesus, accepting the gift of his sacrifice before you continue on with this prophecy study.
Back to our prelude to the study.
There are two prophetic books in the Bible which go hand in hand and as such we’ll really be studying them together to let God’s marvelous prophetic ability to shine brilliantly in our understanding. Those two books are Daniel and Revelation. Just how are we going to undertake this study? We’re going to use a literal interpretation which simply means were going to let the Bible speak for itself taking things literally except where the literal interpretation instructs us through symbolic language to do otherwise, and even then it will be literal in giving us the keys to any symbols used. We’re not going to create any strange mystical interpretations adding fanciful imagination to fill in places that are seemingly void of understanding otherwise. No, we’re adopting the literal method here as it is been tried and has proved to be the most precise and truly lets the Bible interpret itself as intended.
Please READ Psalms 119: 105 ‘Thy ___ is a lamp unto my feet, and a _____ unto my path.’
Also READ 2 Peter 1: 19 ‘We have also a more ____ word of _________; whereunto ye do well that ye take ____, as unto a light that shineth in a ____ place, until the day ____, and the day ____ arise in your hearts’
It is important that we study prophecy, very important remember from previous webpages this verse –
READ Revelation 1:3 ‘Blessed is he that _______, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and ____ those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.’
We all want to be blessed by God don’t we? I know I sure do. I’m promised a blessing if I read and hear these words of Revelation, if I keep what is within this book. Is it important to study prophecy? I have to say that God’s word say that it is and therefore lets us endeavor to do so. God sees from when time began and He looked down through all of time and through His men and women inspired by Him, gifted with the Holy Spirit’s guidance we have an outline for His plan for all of mankind. How amazing…how awesome it that?
Prophecy itself tells us that after a long time without full understanding we would be able to understand, READ Daniel 12:4 ‘But thou, O _____, shut up the ____, and ____ the book, even to the time of the ___: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be ________;’
Knowledge has increased biblically and in our every day lives and continues to increase at an unbelievable rate. To think that as short a time as a hundred years ago mankind was still being drawn about by horse and buggy as the slow emergence of cars came into being, it is mind boggling. How many thousands of years has man used the horse for transportation? And then in the last hundred to two hundred years we’ve gone from horses to rockets into outer space, to jets in the skies that take us from one place to another in such a short time that it was fanciful science fiction to those people a mere two hundred years ago and less. Knowledge, both of the Bible and understanding it’s prophecies, as well as in our every day lives has increased fantastically in a manner that can’t be ignored, or fully explained except to know that divine intervention has made things so. The increase in knowledge wasn’t so gradual over thousands of years, but almost instantaneously. Just look at the knowledge involved in computers. There seems to be no end to making them better and improving them, one year what cost thousands of dollars to possess the next year is all but obsolete, the advances in technology are that amazing. Bringing this to a Biblical point of view, was the book of Daniel suddenly opened as the time of the end approaches and knowledge of that word increased? Yes. It was around the same time as amazing never before seen technological advances in our history began that the book of Daniel and Revelation were suddenly being seen in a light, in an understanding that they hadn’t been ever before. Event by event, link by link no other books in the Bible hold such prophecies that take us right down to the very end of time. These books reveal the life of mankind in each aspect showing us the state of humanity right at the end of days. Much is understood now that has been overlooked for centuries upon centuries. These books are opened and there is no closing them.
Do these prophecies really take us to the end times?
READ Dan. 12:1, 2 ‘And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of _______, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time ___ people shall be _________, every one that shall be found written in the book. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall _____, some to everlasting ____, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Time of trouble such as was never before it’s saying and truly you can look at our political situations in the world today and know beyond a doubt that things are bad and only growing worse.
Please READ- John 16:7 - ‘Nevertheless I tell you the _____; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will ____ him unto you. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of _____, is come, he will guide you into ___ truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to _____. All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto ___.
Let us pray that God opens are hearts and understanding as we study, that the Holy Spirit comes to us and shows us all we need to know as promised by Jesus Himself. The next page will begin our study into the book of Daniel click on the link below Daniel Chapter One. Thank you.