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The Lord | Jesus said – | |||
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Matthew 24:21-22. (The interruption of Armageddon) |
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PREAMBLE |
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Mark 13:19-20 [3½-years Daniel 12:7; Revelation 11:3] |
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Jesus said | there is a time coming that is incomparably horrific – a time so bad that the human race would be annihilated if that time were not interrupted!
But He promised that He would do just that – for the sake of His people! |
Matthew 24:21 |
This means then that – of this worst of all times past, of the very darkest of all days, in any place – this future horror is even greater. No Nazi holocaust, no Rwandan genocide, no atrocity or vile and ungodly event that has ever occurred in all history can compare to this coming time. What is still ahead of us is the worst of all! Is this the sound of despair? No, certainly not – |
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This is the night of the brightest stars! |
So, please | read on... | See: Chronology of Confusion |
• | There is an increasing awareness among many Christians that this much feared future (which has given rise to some alarmist interpretations of Scripture) is in reality the hour of – the greatest spiritual triumph of the People-of-God in this world! |
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• | In other words, for the believer, this time ahead is going to be the crowning climax of what began in the Holy Spirit's anointing of the despised Galilean disciples of Jesus at Pentecost, within just two months after that devastating public execution of their leader on Calvary. |
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• | Their boldness then shook Jerusalem (a city not unused to new 'messiahs') into a radical new view of this young church. A view that even brought the sick into the streets to be healed by the passing of their spokesman's shadow – the like of which had not occurred, even in the ministry of Jesus their Founder. |
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• | This young energy, that later became dissipated into controversies in the centuries that followed, is now growing again, growing toward this worst of times for the world around us. |
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• | It is of this completing future time that this study is concerned – from its coming commencement until its completing in the Kingdom of God – as the Bible gives us perspective. |
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• | This overview is also given with the prayer that a more biblical view will encourage a greater confidence in God, a confidence that gives a joy and wisdom which frees us from anxiety about the future. |
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