END TIME CONFUSION

We just received a mailing from a Jewish Christian organization today and my wife was reading some of what they now believe concerning Christ coming in 2012. A little ways into the article, it talks about the writings of Tim Lahaye and Jerry Jenkins, as if they really were writing the truth about what Jesus called the “END.” Their writings are mostly fiction, loosely based upon their understanding of what the Bible says. Most of it is way off.

Hearing about this stirred me up a bit since I have spent about thirty years trying to educate believers to the truth about the “END.” This Jewish Christian organization is growing by leaps and bounds and they are being fed the same old error that has been prevalent in most Christian churches since the 1830s.

What's the problem?

To begin with the prophecy foretelling the "end" was given by Jesus on the Mount of Olives and it was addressing the audience that was listening to Him and not us today. This is because it applied to that generation, not ours. Read Luke Chapter 21.

Jesus said when you shall see armies surrounding Jerusalem, know that the desolation thereof is nigh. Speaking of the Temple, He told his followers that not one stone would be left upon another that would not be cast down. He said “there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of man coming in His kingdom.”

Jesus predicted wars and rumors of wars, famine, earthquakes in diverse places, and then that the Gospel of the kingdom must first be preached into all the world for a witness, then the end would come. (All of these predictions came to pass in that generation.) Jesus had said: “This generation shall not pass away until all be fulfilled.”

That generation passed away long ago. If all was not fulfilled, Jesus would be a false prophet. We know that He is not, so all His predictions were fulfilled in that generation.

The prophecy of the Gospel being preached “into all the world for a witness” was fulfilled before the Bible was complete. There are at least six scriptures in the Bible that say it was done and a number of historians who stated the same. We are led by most preachers today to believe that it is yet to be accomplished before Jesus can return.

In the A. D. 70 period, the prophecy of Jesus was fulfilled by the armies of Roman under Titus surrounding the city of Jerusalem, followed by the building of a siege wall around the city so that no one could leave or enter and the siege of the city and Temple until the Temple was burned and so completely destroyed that it hasn’t been rebuilt to this day. The temple mount was ploughed by Terentius Rufus to fulfill the Old Testament prophecy that it would "be as a ploughed field." It is said that all Jewish tombstones were destroyed so that there was no evidence that a single Jew had ever lived there.

Over a million Jews died and those who were left alive were taken or sold as slaves to other nations. God dealt with them for their refusal to accept His messiah, Jesus, and instead, getting Him crucified.

Who knows more about the dealings of God than Jesus? Not Tim Lahaye or Hal Lindsay.

I have a web page with great detail on this most misunderstood subject that I invite you to visit. I don’t claim to know everything, but God has given me very good understanding of this subject from thirty years of study. There's no fiction, just Bible fact. It will be a helpful education of the truth about the "end."

Link to website: http://aftergt.homestead.com/index.html

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