As He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?” Matthew 24:3.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
I have sworn that the knowledge of My glory will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. Habakkuk 2:14.
And just as I swore to Moses, “Indeed, as I live, all the earth will be filled with the glory of the LORD.” Numbers 14:21. All mankind will see My glory and My glory shines forth in the face of Christ, the risen Christ, whose face is brighter than the sun in full force.
In His right hand He held seven stars, and out of His mouth came a sharp two-edged sword; and His face was like the sun shines in its strength. Revelation 1:16.
I draw you into My banquet hall and My banner over you is love.
“He has brought me to his banquet hall (house of wine), and his banner over me is love. Sustain me with raisin cakes, refresh me with apples, because I am lovesick. Let his left hand be under my head and his right hand embrace me.” Song of Songs 2:4-6.
When you abide in My love as My love abides in you, your life becomes so very sweet, a place of delight no matter what come against you that banner is covering you and in love there is abundant life and abundant joy. I draw you to Jesus and in Him is the banquet. And in Him you are under the banner of My love, the wedding canopy of Mt. Zion’s assemblies, where the body of Christ, the Church, His bride gathers.
Then the LORD will create over the whole area of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, even smoke, and the brightness of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy. There will be a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and refuge and protection from the storm and the rain. Isaiah 4:5-6.
It is a feast of My Word. I speak of the wedding feast of the Lamb to which you are invited and I set a table before you in the sight of your enemies and invite you to feast on the abundance of My house for length of days, which is forever.
How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God! And the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings. They drink their fill of the abundance of Your house; and You give them to drink of the river of Your delights. For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light. Psalm 36:7-9.
Jesus stands knocking at the door of your heart and if you hear His voice (and if today you hear My voice harden not your heart) and open to Him, He will enter and dine with you and you with Him. Revelation 3:20. A banquet of every good thing given and every perfect gift, for in Him are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge and in Him I have blessed you with every spiritual blessing in Heaven.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. Ephesians 1:3-4.
I gather you together as a Shepherd does His flock and I bring you to My Holy Mountain of prayer where I send down showers, and they are showers of blessing.
I will make them and the places around My mountain a blessing. And I will cause showers to come down in their season; they will be showers of blessing. . . “As for you, My sheep, the sheep of My pasture, you are men, and I am your God,” declares the Lord (Adonai) LORD (Yahavah).” Ezekiel 34:26, 31.
The time of the ingathering is near. How I long to have you forever dwelling in My house with Me in the ever-flowing overflowing of glory where there are no hindrances or limits to the exercise of My power in love for each of you who are Mine.
And that is the conversation I want to bring you into today, Jesus speaks of His return for His bride the Church, but also of the things that will come first.
I spoke of the Kingdom and the things to come to many of My prophets of old in various ways but in My Son I share with you clearly the things to come. And I say to you, as He said to His disciples, be prepared, for you know not the exact day or hour but you can discern the signs of the times. It takes wisdom here.
Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for the number is that of a man; and his number is 666. Revelation 13:18.
What does that mean? Six is the number that denotes man, for I created mankind on the sixth day. And I am three Persons in One God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, a unique 3 but One. 666 means you are living as all man and no God. It is the denial of My existence, replacing the Godhead of Father, Son, and Spirit with man, man, and more man as your source, it is hedonistic humanism that glorifies man as his own source and makes the pursuit of pleasure and sensual self-indulgence its driving focus. It breeds such theories as evolution and ultimately the denial of My existence, My amazingly designed and highly developed creation from the beginning, and of eternal life.
And let us go back to that day when Jesus came out from the temple and was going away when His disciples came up to point out the wonderful temple buildings and beautiful stones and votive gifts to Him. And He said to them, “Do you not see all these things? Truly I say to you, not one stone here will be left upon another, which will not be torn down.” Luke 21:5-6; Mark 13:1-2; Matthew 24:1-2. Here He was talking about the destruction of the Temple that took place exactly as My prophet Daniel had foretold in the year 70 AD when Rome conquered Jerusalem and tore the Temple down and took all is treasures back to Rome.
Seventy sevens (shabua (שְׁבוּעַ): a period of seven (can be days or years), heptad, week) have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place. So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress. Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined. And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate.” Daniel 9:24-27.
This prophecy by My servant Daniel tells you everything you need to know about what will take place in the endtimes and Jesus refers to Daniel’s prophecy in the conversations He had about His death and resurrection, the destruction of Jerusalem and the tribulation period and His return. It is a very accurate prophecy setting out the timeline and the events.
Exactly what is meant by “seventy sevens”? Daniel’s prayer in verses just before this prophecy was given him by My messenger Gabriel refers to the fulfillment of the specific seventy-year period of the Babylonian captivity as prophesied by My prophet, Jeremiah. Daniel received this seventy sevens prophecy in response to his prayer. The prophecy foretold a period of seven times seventy yet to come, or seventy seven-year periods. Seventy seven-year periods equals 490 years. The prophecy goes on to say that “from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven sevens (49 years) and sixty-two sevens (434 years). Then after the sixty-two sevens the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing.”
Nebuchadnezzar conquered and dismantled Jerusalem (the first temple) and at the time this prophecy of Daniel was given, Jerusalem still lay in ruins and the people were in exile. According to the prophecy, from the decree to rebuild Jerusalem there would be seven seven-year periods and sixty-two more seven-year periods—or 483 years—until the Messiah would come upon the earth. After the culmination of the 62 seven-year periods, or after 483rd year, the Messiah would be cut off.
The first decrees when I sent My people back were to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem, without which My presence was not there, so like the tabernacle of Moses began with the ark of the testimony and the holy place in the plans I gave Moses, so the return to Jerusalem began with the funding by Cyrus of the rebuilding of the Temple and the institution of the sacrifices and offerings.
It was the Persian Emperor Artaxerxes, for whom Nehemiah was the cupbearer, that issued the edict to rebuild the walls and the city of Jerusalem during the Hebrew month of Nisan in the 20th year of his reign, which was in 444 BC (Nehemiah 2:1-8). Nisan falls between February 27 (Nisan 1) and March 28 (Nisan 30), calculating this using 30 day months and 360 day years, which both the Israelites and the Babylonians used, this prophecy then puts the coming of the Messiah and His death on the Cross, not for Himself but for your sins he suffered, in the year generally known as 33 A.D. and the destruction of Jerusalem in the year 70 A.D. by the Romans (“the people of the leader who is to come”). Calculating the time I specified to Daniel and making the accommodation from lunar to solar years, the 69 sevens (weeks) from the decree to rebuild Jerusalem the coming of the Messiah to Jerusalem on Palm Sunday and His death on the Cross on the exact days these events occurred.
So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two sevens; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress. Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary.
The destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple in 70 AD occurred after the 62 weeks mentioned in the prophecy and the destruction came like a flood, with war and desolation, as predicted. Also it was carried out by the Romans who were “the people of the prince who is to come.” The prince to come was the leader of the Roman forces named Titus, who was the son of Vespasian, the Roman Emperor at that time. After conquering Jerusalem and dismantling the Temple in 70 CE, Titus was recognized as the heir to his father’s imperial throne. Before becoming sole emperor, Titus served as co-ruler with his father Vespasian, sharing the title of Caesar. Upon Vespasian’s death in 79 AD (CE), Titus succeeded him as Emperor.
The people had declared to Pilate they had no king but Caesar when they rejected My Son in the judgment of His crucifixion and asked for Barabbas instead. They failed to recognize their time of visitation by the Messiah Himself and lost all. They found out what a cruel king they had submitted to when they rejected the King of kings and Lord of lords for Caesar. It was a very bad choice. He besieged, ransacked and tore down their city and My temple and exiled them from their country that I had given them. But they would not listen to My warnings. In fact, just before this conversation with the disciples took place, My Son had stated the following:
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling. Behold, your house is being left to you desolate! For I say to you, from now on you will not see Me until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’” Matthew 23:37-39.
And there is the key to all the horrors that are yet to come, receive Jesus as your Messiah and stay under My wings and you will be safe in My secret place, for I am the Most High, above all the tumult of the nations.
And remember this, upon Daniel’s inquiry I answered him and gave him the answer by which he even predicted the VERY day of Christ’s death over four hundred ears before it occurred. He set things in motion as he spoke what I revealed to him into the earth. And you have the Holy Spirit IN you and I have promised you that He will tell you of the things to come and His information is from Me for He reveals My deepest thoughts to you. Do not be unaware of the signs of the times. Be watching. Be busy about My business so I may give you your full reward when My Son returns to catch you up in the clouds with Him to avoid the great tribulation that is yet to come.
But let us continue with the conversation that took place facing the Temple as Jesus sat with His disciples on the Mount of Olives. The disciples had a lot more questions since He had told them everything would be torn down. So they came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?” And Jesus answered and said to them, “See to it that no one misleads you. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the anointed one,’ and will mislead many. Do not be taken in by them.”
There is a movement today that many are buying into because it allegedly gets them results that can only come through Me without Me. Does this sound familiar? It should, it is the lie that took down Adam and Eve.
This teaching is that people have the power to heal themselves, change their reality, and create a new state of mind WITHOUT ME, all on their own by harnessing the power in them by their thoughts to create new realities in their lives that produce the signs, wonders, and miracles that only follow My Word. Does it sound like the magicians in the court of Pharaoh? They could only go so far in imitating the signs Moses performed and then they ran dry. Without the source you cannot make yourself a new creation, that only happens in Christ. Be discerning and let the reader understand.
“Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains.” Matthew 24:15.
We will talk more about this in our next Life Lesson. There is much to say here. And there is more I shared not only with Daniel, but also with Joel, Zechariah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Hosea, Ezekiel, and others, not to mention John My beloved disciple to whom I gave a whole book of revelation on the endtimes and the second coming of Christ and beyond to the descent of My heavenly city, the New Jerusalem.
I love you. Get ready! You do not want to miss any of these great last days, they will be filled with wonders as have never been seen before as My glory and love flood the world in one final call to all to be saved for My Kingdom forever. It is for such an awesome time as this that you were born. Do not miss your visitation, not even one miracle of it. Come be a laborer in the endtime harvest, or should I say, come be more than a conqueror with Jesus your coming King!