Monday, December 30, 2013

13.0- Additional notes.

13.1- General note

This "Revelation to Daniel" we should read together with the "Revelation to John."
Together they give us a more clear understanding of the time we live in namely: “the End Times”, in which we now find ourselves.

After Daniel, - and especially during the last centuries -, many people (including Pablo, already in the first century) have thought that the "time of the end of the world", and / or the return of Christ was near. Until 1948 all of them had made their calculations and predictions without realizing that the Bible clearly says that Jesus will return amongst his people and He will descend on the Mount of Olives.. See Zechariah 14: 1-4: “The day when the Lord will sit in judgment is near. Then Jerusalem will be looted, (This indicates that the people of Israel must have returned to Jerusalem) and the loot will be divided up before your eyes. The Lord will bring all the nations together to make war on Jerusalem. The city will be taken, the houses looted, and the women raped. Half of the people will go into exile, but the rest of them will not be taken away from the city. Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations, as he has fought in times past. At that time he will stand on the Mount of Olives, to the east of Jerusalem. Then the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west by a large valley. Half of the mountain will move northward and half of it southward”…. We know that, - since the siege of Jerusalem in the year 70 AD -, the Israelites possessed their country again for the first time in 1948, when the state of Israel was officially recognized internationally. By not having returned the Israelites in their promised land before this date, the time of the second coming of Jesus Christ could not be until after 1948. And more precisely after 1967, when the Israelites conquered Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives became part of its territory.