157 Answers
RE: Thought I might take a stab at answering the 157 questions; from an investigative point of view.
Question 1, 20-26, 65, 66, 82, 119, 139, 141, 150
Question 1. John was told to give the Revelation to yielded servants who knew the code. The Romans did not know the code. To those who knew the words and signs of the code it revealed, to others it concealed; there were no yield servants at the time of the writing of Daniel; they would not come until the birth death and resurrection of the Christ. Christ taught the disciples the code by His own words and by the words of every prophet who is referenced in the Bible from Enoch to Malachi . The context of Daniel is consummating the Time of the Gentiles and unsealing the book in the 21st century. The Revelation, is unveiling the glorified Christ, and guiding human history to its’ destined end in the Messianic Stone Kingdom.
Questions 20-26. The 2000 year gap was mentioned by many prophets in general terms and in specific text; briefly Slavonic Enoch Chapters xxxviii-lxvi informs regarding the duration of the world; 7000 years. Hosea talks about 2 days (Hosea 6:2); while drawing attention to the fact that both Ephraim and Judah are the subjects of the two days ( 2 thousand years); as put into practical understanding by Ezekiel 37 the two sticks joined together during the end of days (Gentile Days), end of Gentile age; i.e. the time of the Gentiles will be fulfilled. Further, Gabriel tells Daniel 1335 days will consummate, the end of days. Also, the kingdoms are consecutive when properly traced through the annals of world history. The lineage of people, nations. Kings, kingdoms and situations provide vivid evidence of consecutive kingdoms. The Wall Chart Of World History… FROM EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT PUBLISHED BY DORSET PRESS (1988) gives an expanded graphic view of human history.
Questions 150, 141, 139, 119, 82, 65, 66
The 70th week is still future because.
The bible never says you can and will not know the end of the age. What is stated is that no one will know the day or hour when the Son of Man will come ; Second Coming). We are looking at two (2) different events. The short version of this is proven by chapter 12 of the book of Daniel verse 5; the Daniel event is about the end of the age not the Second Coming, “then I Daniel looked and behold there stood two, the one the bank of the river on this side, and the other on the bank of the river on that side. And one said to the man clothed in linen (from chapter 10 verse 5); who was above the waters of the river. To the question; how long?, the man in linen replies a definite time …”it shall be for a time, times and a half; and he gives a description of the circumstances that identify the end of the age not world…it does not state the Son of Man is coming at that time. It states with regard to the event that “when they have made an end of breaking in pieces the power of the holy people, all these things will be finished. Gabriel gave Daniel an outline in detail of what would transpire between 605/606 bc and the day when the time of the Gentiles would be full; Daniel was told it would be extended to 1335 days. The 1335 days ends in 2012; it is not a matter of counting days it is a matter of securing the event the days are based on; hence 1335 from the Abomination standing where it ought not = 2012 ad.
The Lord was not present at the destruction of Jerusalem . Jerusalem was destroyed by the Roman soldiers none of the major things that are to happen at the Second Coming happened at the destruction of Jerusalem, such as final resurrection of the dead, final translation of the living, physical changes in the structure of Jerusalem, etc. Zech 14:4-11 Ezek 47:1-12. Christ purpose in coming back the first and the second time is not to destroy Jerusalem , but to restore it and then renew it.
The time of the gentiles must be fulfilled Luke 21:24 ; just as the time of the Amorites had to be fulfilled. Genesis 15:16 (Amorite Time = NOT FULFILLED); Amos 2:9 (Amorite Time = FULFILLED), also TCR x131.
Again, Revelation is speaking to yielded servants that understood the code. Revelation 18 resounds with Heaven shouting Hallelujah; then speaks of the Second Coming well into Revelation 19. The view of the book of Daniel Chapters 1 thru 12, ends at Revelation 18; Revelation Chapter 1 runs parallel to the Book of Daniel Beginning at 30 ad. thru Revelation 18. John then picks up the rest of the storyline and presents the Second Coming in vivid detail. The book of Daniel does not detail the Second Coming of Christ.
Revelation chapters 6 (which has always been unsealed, but coded) to 19 have not happened yet; some may say we are looking at the seals of Revelation 6; we will know for sure if the price of wheat and barley go up, based on Hurricane Katrina. The climax of Daniel Chapters 2 & 12 are yet future. The King described in Daniel 11:36-44; has not to this present moment, (has not) completed the time of wrath. We are presently in the midst of, “911”, Asian Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, future Earthquakes, Wars, Pestilence and Famines. The only not debatable citation in the list in the preceding sentence is…”911”, when that struck it stopped the entire globe for three (3) days. Men wept, children cried, women gnashed their teeth. Biblical wrath? I think so. This event has enough of the aspects of the Nebuchadnezzar statue crumbling as to be a fulfillment of the Stone which smites the feet of iron and clay.
You cannot have a previous second advent of Christ while events are still unfolding; playing out before our eyes. We still have multiple religions, this could not be so if we were currently in any part of the Second Coming.
The times of the Gentiles runs from the sojourn to Egypt and subsequent captivity, to the end of the Gentile Age, not world. The kingdoms involved with Hebrew captivity would outline as follow: 5 have fallen, 1 is, 1 is yet to come. Egypt , Assyria , Babylon , Persia , Greece (5 Fallen ), Rome ( 1 is ), and The Caliphate/ The Islamic Republic ( an eighth belonging to the 7th ) (1 yet to come ); now here, since 632 ad. These are the 7 Mountain Kingdoms of the Times of the Gentiles. Revelation 17:9-14
Other relevant data
A lot of Biblical prophecy was fulfilled between 30 ad and 70 ad; however much is still to come; I pray your heart doesn’t fail you when it does. As can be seen in the news media we are having a storm and pestilence event right now. Obviously it will take more then this for some to understand, perhaps the body count from Hurricane Katrina will revise some thought on this progressive Biblical storyline.
Prophecy is past and future all at the same time; looking forward and backward, in terms of people, principles and historic situations. So the fact that 70 ad fulfilled many prophetic events is certain; i.e. Antiochus EPIHPHANES of the Daniel outline.
Preterist and Historicist views both are correct; it did all happen then just as text and history declares. However, I wonder does this mean we are living in the age of the New Jerusalem and New Heavens. I don’t think I cannot even justify that thought since Matthew 24:30, states … “they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory”. This is referring to the mourners on earth after the end of the Gentile age; seeing POWER & GREAT GLORY. Adam saw Glory and he knew the difference by sight of being enrobed in Glory and being Naked. It was a tangible visible substance.
What we are looking at is time converging on time. This is where something that happened before in time repeats itself, to close out the current era, as well as to fulfill the prophesied words which speak both of the past and the future at the same time.
The simplest way to look at it is through the Prophets that had the longest view of time, mankind and Prophecy.
Isaiah , in the pre-exilic group saw to the New Jerusalem/New Heaven; Isaiah 60:18-22, Isaiah 63:17, Isaiah 65, Isaiah 65:22 is playing out today; meaning; THEY BUILT AND ANOTHER IS TRYING TO INHABIT, when my site is up it will show pics of Israel at the time of Mark twain; it was barren; nothing was built up and even the trees had been destroyed by the Ottoman Empire. There are many travelers like Benjamin of Tudela (1169-1171 ad), who document this data in their personal journals. Men who merely wrote/journalized what they saw during their travels in the land. None of the journals including Arab journals have a record of a Palestinian State ; only scattered Syrian bedowins living on the land. Had the bedowins been a state they would have had to pay tribute to the Syrians and there is absolutely no record of this occurring at that time. Also Isaiah 66:22; I am not sure what you will do with verses 23 & 24.
YOU KNOW I AM NOT SURE WHAT YOU THINK OF THE SCOFFIED BIBLE & IT REALLY DOESN’T MATTER WHAT WE THINK, BUT HE HAS THE BEST CROSS REFERENCE ON THE PLANET; AND HIS PEER SCHOLARS THOUGHT SO TOO , EVEN THOUGH THEY DISAGREED WITH HIM ON SOME DOCTRINE STUFF. I JUST CAN’T CITE ALL THE CROSS-REFERENCES SO MAY I SUGGEST YOU USE SCOFFIELD FOR THAT.
Ezekiel , in the exilic group saw to Millennium; Ezekiel 40:1-45 & Ezekiel 35, Ezekiel 44:1 Reference to East Gate is shut. East Gate, known also as the Golden Gate was walled up by the Arabs in the year 810 ad. The gate was not shut in 70 ad, Ezekiel’s envisions the New Jerusalem with 12 gates named after 12 tribes Ezekiel 48:30-35, also a temple with various gates Ezekiel chapters 40-44, the same as in Revelation chapters 21 & 22. People are not walking in the light of this city now.
John of Patmos saw to the New Jerusalem/New Heaven and The Millennium; Rev 21:1 to 22:15 . In revelation 21 & 22 there are 7 new things. The most prominent is the water of life, a pure river; that comes from the throne of God and the Lamb. Check out 22:2 … the leaves of the tree for the healing of the nations.
Of course Daniel saw to the End of the Gentile Age
We have much too much compelling source evidence to even not think much of history is repeating itself.
THE LAST OF THE NAOMI’S 157 QUESTIONS
This last portion covers ,#’s 3-14;18;19;32;34-41;43-47;50-63;67-69;71-78;83-86;88-102;105-107;109;111-114;116-118;120-135;140;142-149;151-156.
After reviewing the material suggested below, as of October 25, 2005 ; you will be with out excuse; you will never be able to tell GOD you thought your opinion was right; HIS is the only right, perfect and correct opinion. Trust me, GOD did not send HIS Prophets out there for nothing. Collected properly the data only draws one conclusion and one opinion. Paul writes … “even the mystery which has been hid from ages (aions) and from generations, but is now revealed to the saints” Col 1:26 . There are 11 Biblical Text Mysteries , which was designed to take ages (YEARS, MONTHS, DAYS, CENTURIES to accomplish, to solve; or understand, have knowledge of and be wise about.
The Mysteries are as follows but not in order so that you can easily observe what is still pending.
Mystery 1 …The Kingdom of Heaven - Matthew 13:1-52
Mystery 2 … Israel ‘s Blindness - Romans 11:25
Mystery 3 …The Translation (Resurrection not Rapture) of the Saints - 1 Cor 15:51 & 1 Thess 4:16-17
Mystery 4 …The Union of Jews And Gentiles Ephesians 3:3-6
Mystery 5 …The Church-The Bride of Christ Eph 5:25-32 & Rev 19:7-9 & Rev 21:9-10
Mystery 6 …The Devine Indwelling Col 1:26-27 & Gal 2:20
Mystery 7 …The Restoration of all things Genesis to Revelation…more specifically Acts 3:21 “Whom heaven must receive and retain until the time for the complete restoration of all that GOD spoke by the mouth of all HIS Holy Prophets for ages past from the most ancient time in the memory of man” . (Amplified Bible)
Mystery 8 …The Incarnation 1 Tim 3:16 & John 1:1,14
Mystery 9 …The Mystery of Iniquity 2 Thess 2:7-9
Mystery 10 …The 7 CandleSticks Rev 1:12 - Rev 3:22
REVELATION 4:1 DISTINCTLY STATES …@ the last sentence “I will show you what must take place in the future”. By all guesses and interpretations this would have had to of been written between 70 ad and 96ad. At the very least the future would have to start at 70ad and move forward. The 7th Kingdom of Revelation 12:3 & 17:9-10 ( which was yet to come) had not come yet since Rome was in still in authority up to possibly 400ad. Nor had the time slots on Daniel and Revelation expired. Rev 11:2-3 Daniel 12:11-13
This is a combination of questions #2, 48, 49,110,136,137,138,157.
To keep everything in perspective with regard to the 157-Questions, you always must rely on; and respect the data from the Fall and the Curse. God’s corrective action to the Fall was to curse and chastise, along with providing relentless love and grace and redemption for the humans he had created in His image. Father put enmity between the serpent’s Seed and the woman’s Seed. See Matthew 13:37-38, etc.
So, looking at question #2, we have to look at the “chronos” (succession of events) of when Adam & Eve lived. The evidence declares they lived around 4004 b.c.; Daniel speaking in his own time was around 606-605 b.c.; the Apostles living in their own time were 30 a.d. Initially the Apostles didn’t have a clue; many times Christ wanted to answer them He did not; they did not have enough information to understand the answer. We know Christ referred them to Daniel’s Book in Matthew 24:15 (very few if any direct referrals by name are given to a particular Prophet in the NT by Christ). We know Christ told the disciples he would be handed over to be crucified: and just as he said, all the things occurred which Christ had predicted. So now you have the appearance of Christ to the disciples Luke 24:36-49 (*in these verses it talks about the resurrected Christ asking for food to feed a resurrected body*); He tells them to stay in the city until they have been clothed with power from on High. Ya, think maybe Peter got out the old study manual on Joel; Yea. He preached Joel on the Day of Pentecost. Certainly, if he looked at Joel he certainly looked at Daniel in that 120 Day “kairos” (an organized event); as Christ had suggested in Matthew 24:15.
So now you have an obvious window of time that even the disciples understood, at this point. They knew they had to look backward as far as Daniel, then further backward as far as Adam. The math is 4000 to 0 b.c ; then 1 a.d. to 30 a.d. with all the poetic language of scripture; you still need quite a few years to bring the “chronos” to 6000 days of labor and a 1000 initially day of rest, prior to Eternity. At the very least, they were aware of the 1290 days and the 1335 days. The evidence the Apostles understand “chronos” is found in 2 Peter 3:8 NT and Psalm 90:4 (this verse is a Hebraism compared to the other); after resurrection they studied and understood a whole lot of stuff; the ancient pieces began to fit together; the ancient dots began to connect; we need to be connecting the obvious ancient dots, too. The disciples obviously understood Sabbaths and Jubilee’s; the rest is just plain math. To the disciples it became about the big picture, the storyline; not just the sound bite.
The Epistles are written from a stance of being a “given”; to wit Paul speaking “, “First I thank God for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.” Of course the Epistles are instructional and corrective as well, but the point is, “I already told you, you already knew”.
Acts 1 is the answer to a question regarding when the kingdom would be restored to Israel. The answer was the Father has put the times and seasons “WHEN THE KINGDOM WILL BE RESTORED TO ISRAEL”; in His own authority; referring to the knowing of when a Davidic-Israeli Kingdom would be RESTORED. Even after the times of the Gentiles is Full – which will happen in our life time; we still have no idea when the kingdom of Israel will be restored, and there is no text by which we can make speculation. Biblical hint: [Times] noted within Daniel are two years. [Seasons] are of course seed-time spring; summer; harvest-time autumn and winter; these are the times and season we are not privy to, biblically. We really have no idea, none of the scholars so far have a real-conclusive clue and we will not.
While we are here in Acts let’s look at chapter 2. The reference is to Jews from every nation; devout Jews who came to celebrate Pentecost. The Jews from every nation said, “we hear each in our own language”… The 157 Questions is the result of all of us giving and taking in sound bites; the plan of Christ is that His Gospel (storyline) will be preached to all nations. THEN HE TELLS US WHAT HE WANTS PREACHED; WHAT HIS STORYLINE LOOKS LIKE. Christ quotes Himself in Luke 24:44; ” This is what I told you while I was still with you: EVERYTHING - EVERYTHING - EVERYTHING must be fulfilled that is written about me in THE LAW, THE PROPHETS AND THE PSALMS. So according to this; proper STORYLINE Gospel OF WHAT HE COMMANDED US TO PREACH; HAS NOT BEEN PREACHED, YET. It has not yet been preached; ergo, many of us have read Daniel & by doing so understand much of Revelation, but most have not read Enoch ( the first prophet in history) or studied Enoch, Daniel or Revelation; which means the second fulfillment that of reading, studying, knowing, understanding and preaching THE PROPHETS has not been met; and opps!; we are in the 2005th year of this thing. Simply stated we have not preached Daniel, Revelation, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Joel, or Enoch to the nations as was commanded. In addition the given is that we should all be on the same page, at the same time…this has nothing to do with ministry gifts, it has to do with preaching the same storyline, at the same time, on the same page. THE LAW, THE PROPHETS and THE PSALMS are what they all had in common. Oh, for those with the ?; Yes, Enoch will ask why didn’t you read my book.
If you haven’t noticed the 4004 + the 2000 = 6000 years, perhaps more or less accurate 6009 years …the short version is once you have a 6th you come up on a 7th rather quickly; adjusted more or less for; “ if I had not shortened the time not even the elect would survive”.
What we are looking at here is Sabbath Rest on the seventh day (i.e. the 7000th year), neither temporal nor ceremonial; the Sabbath God gave to all mankind in Genesis 1 & 2; as The Beginning & The Blessing; “and God blessed the Seventh day”. God is about to go into His Rest period and we still need to have a go at teaching ENOCH THE PROPHET TO ALL NATIONS. This Sabbath-Rest is the one thing Satan couldn’t mess with - man messed it up not Satan. Sabbath and Jubilees are eternally joined together; meaning we will enjoy them into the millennial eternity. God intends to enjoy His in a few minutes.
Had Adam and Eve not fallen they would have remained in a state of perpetual and eternal rest, Sabbath; (HOLY REST), in Hebrew.
Holy Rest – Father God’s Favorite past time.
God has continued to reserve a seventh day for himself; He rests from His labors with mankind. The seventh thousandth year of mankind is, without any doubt is a rest for God.
All of the above points toward the end of the age, not world. It is the end of the age, as in the “Time of the Gentiles being Full”; “a kairos”. Matthew 13:39 says the harvest is at the end of the age. Ok, it could not have been 30 years because much of what is spoken of in Daniel had not happened yet. Remember Daniels stuff was to be unsealed at the end of the age which was still 2000 years future. Daniel 12 was still future including Daniel 7 in the context of the Seventieth Week. Also, that part of Daniel is crossed with “The Things that shall be Hereafter”, in Revelation. Many times prophecy looks both forward and backward at the same time.
The question Matthew 24:3, points to the answer (commanded) to be found in the Book of Daniel; while the rest of the chapter gives need to know info.
Hebrews 9: 26…but He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself. Again, within the frame work of the 2000 years. When it says ages it is telling us the other ages (dispensations) had already passed. There are various ways of viewing what encompassed a Dispensation, more or less all the writers who attempted a breakdown are more or less correct. Their analysis is the characteristics of that time period and most are accurate.
The answer can be found in:
The Clarence Larkin Charts copyright 1916
www.larkinestate.com/
Revelation Expounded by Finis Jennings Dake copyright 1950,1977,1987
And at: www.hebrewheritage.com copyright 1994-2012
No one has all the pieces, but we all have parts