T
he Final Question in Daniel 12!
What shall be the end of these Things?
Iranian Double Motivation to Destroy Israel
Messianic Shiite Madhi and Caliphate Expansionism
So as to revive the once huge Islamic Empire of Muhammad
Greater Than the Magnificent Persian Empire of Cyrus and Darius!
July 17, 2008
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
The doctrines of the Word, after the completion of the New Testament, were quite sufficient to understand the truth concerning salvation of the soul, security of the believer, baptism, the church, the Lord’s Supper, and other elements of the faith. Of course, everything in the Bible is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, and certainly that is also true with prophecy, but the truth of it consists of an unveiling of what it means with the passage of time, and the unfulfilled portions of it become clearer as the first parts are actually fulfilled. The statement, “Jesus is coming back one
day in the future” is doctrinal truth. But the statement, “Jesus is likely to return before 2020 is opinion.”
The word translated as “revelation” means “to uncover,” “to unveil,” “to expose.” When some famous icon is slowly unveiled, the surer a person will be of its identification before the last tiny bit of it is exposed to view. The same is generally true with Bible prophecy. As God exposes more of the truth by fulfilled prophetic events, the better we can understand how the other pieces of the puzzle will fit,
based on that which has just been fulfilled. So, in some cases where I goofed on what a prophecy meant when I saw it actually come to pass, I went back and put it in the right part of the puzzle, and it made me see much more clearly why I was wrong, and how some other parts would now properly fit.
As we draw closer to the end of Daniel’s prophecies of the events of the end of the Age of the Gentiles, it is not only the time of man’s fantastic increase in scientific expertise that has expanded, but his understanding of the correct interpretation of prophetic Scriptures as his knowledge is enhanced by the fulfillment of it. I am of the opinion that the words, once “closed up and sealed till the time of the end,” are presently being opened and unsealed in the day to day activities occurring in the Middle East.
Daniel 12:4-9 – But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
[5] Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river. [6] And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders? [7] And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.
[8] And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? [9] And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
Daniel 12:7 – And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.
A time equals one year, times equals two years, and half a time equals ½ year, each year being 360 days in length, for a total of 1260 days.
The “time, times, and a half” represent the last three and one half years of the Tribulation Period when the forces of the Islamic Antichrist drive south into Israel. It ends the mystery of the Age of the Gentiles when it closes. I believe the Daniel 12 angel is the same angel in Revelation 10.
Revelation 10:5-7 – And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, [6] And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer: [7] But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 78A – July 27, 2002
HAVE YOU BEEN SHOWN THE MYSTERY? – Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. (I Corinthians 15:51)
ARE YOU READY FOR THE MYSTERY TO BE FINISHED? – But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. (Revelation 10:7)
ARE YOU READY FOR THE VOICE & TRUMP OF ANGEL 7? – For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: (I Thessalonians 4:16)
ARE YOU READY FOR HIS KINGDOMS ON THE 7TH TRUMP? – And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. (Revelation 11:15)
ARE YOU READY FOR THE LAST TRUMP IN A SERIES OF 7? – In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (I Corinthians 15:52)
ARE YOU READY TO BE JUDGED AFTER THE 7TH TRUMPET
? – And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which
destroy the earth. (Revelation 11:18)
HIS 7 VIALS OF WRATH COME ON THEM AS WE ARE JUDGED? And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
(Revelation 16:1) See Archive Prophecy Updates 73D, 74A, 123B, 124A, 144A, 144F, 147D)
Begin Excerpt from Body of Jerusalem Post Article by Moshe Sharon
We only get one strike
Jul. 16, 2008
Moshe Sharon , THE JERUSALEM POST
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IRAN HAS the motivation to destroy Israel, and if it is allowed to gain nuclear weapons it will not need an excuse to do so. That motivation is a double one: messianic Shi’ite and expansionist-imperial.
Since the late ninth century, the Shi’ites have been expecting the emergence of the hidden imam-mahdi, armed with divine power and followed by thousands of martyrdom-seeking warriors. He is expected to conquer the world and establish Shi’ism as its supreme religion and system of rule.
His appearance would involve terrible war and unusual bloodshed.
Ahmadinejad, as mayor of Teheran, built a spectacular boulevard through which the mahdi would enter into the capital. There is no question that Ahmadinejad believes he has been chosen to be the herald of the mahdi.
Shi’ite Islam differs from Sunni Islam regarding the identity of the mahdi. The Sunni mahdi is essentially an anonymous figure; the Shi’ite mahdi is a divinely inspired person with a real identity.
However both Shi’ites and Sunnis share one particular detail about “the coming of the hour” and the dawning of messianic times: The Jews must all suffer a violent death, to the last one.
Both Shi’ites and Sunnis quote the famous hadith attributed to the Prophet Muhammad: The last hour will not come unless the Muslims fight against the Jews, and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and the stone or the tree would say: “Muslim! Servant of Allah! Here is a Jew behind me; come and kill him!”
Not one Friday passes without this hadith being quoted in sermons from one side of the Islamic world to the other.
Shi’ism regards the Jews as an embodiment of filth and the contaminating source of ritual impurity – which adds another religious justification to the Muslims to rid themselves of the Jews and their state. Iran threatens that it has the ability to do so with its ballistic missiles and the readily available services of local proxies who would love to join the general effort to kill the Jews.
THE OTHER side of Iran’s motivation to destroy Israel is the imperial one.
Iran has the same virus inherent in every totalitarian power – to gain imperial dominion. Totalitarian Iran wants to recreate its empire east of the Mediterranean. The leaders of modern Iran, long before the present Islamic regime, toyed with the idea of reviving the empire of Cyrus and Darius.
The present Islamic regime has the same aspirations.
Nuclear power is necessary to achieve this desire. As fantastic as it sounds, the destruction of the State of Israel seems necessary for the expansion to the east Mediterranean (which might include the elimination of a few Sunni entities such as Saudi Arabia and some Gulf states).
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The writer is a professor emeritus of Isl
amic studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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