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Revelation and the End Times by Norman B. Willis. Does you like puzzles? Mom bought us puzzles every winter. Also logic games. Prophecy is like a puzzle: 1. Find four corners (anchor points) 2. Complete the border (framework) 3. Check the picture a lot 4. Fill in the middle.
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Does you like puzzles?Mom bought us puzzles every winter. Also logic games
Prophecy is like a puzzle:1. Find four corners (anchor points)2. Complete the border(framework)3. Check the picture a lot4. Fill in the middle
What if someone gives you the wrong picture to check?Does it make the puzzle harder?
- I got saved in the summer of 1999, - Taught about Y2K, black helicopters- Thought world was going to endmidnight, December 31st, 1999
I was taught a “Pre-Tribulation Rapture” in the year 2000,so that we escaped thetribulation
- I was taught: 1. Yeshua will take us back to the land of Israel supernaturally,2. We will rule withHim for 1,000 earth years,sitting on thrones.
Revelation:- A prophetic vision- Interwoven themes- Symbolic language- Difficult to sort out
My questions:When is the Rapture?-Pre-Tribulation?-Post-Tribulation?-Mid-Tribulation?-(When is it?)
I started to see some things that did not fit with what I had been taught.
As a Methodist child,I was told,“The propheciesare done away with…”
Yeshuasaysnot to thinkHe came to do away withthe Torah, or any of the prophecies over Israel.
Mattityahu (Matthew) 5:1717 "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law (Torah) or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy, but (only) to fulfill.”
Mattityahu (Matthew) 5:1818 For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the Torah till all is fulfilled.[All prophetic events must come to pass.]
Yochanan (John) 10:3535 “If He called them elohim (g-ds), to whom the word of Elohim (G-d) came (and the Scriptures cannot be broken)….”
Can we throw aprophecy out,if it does not fitwith what wewere taught?
I was taught- Yeshua will return in the clouds- Scoop us up in a “rapture”- Carry us back to Jerusalem supernaturally
I was taught-Yeshua would rule physically on earth for 1000 years, during the “millennium”
Ezekiel 40-46 speaks of a coming temple, in which a “prince” will serve all Israel
I was taught- Yeshua will build that temple- Yeshua will be the “prince” of that temple.
Yehezqel (Ezekiel) 45:2222 And on that day the prince (נשיא) shall prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering.
So if:1. The prince of Ezekiel 46 is not Yeshua, 2. Yet he rules over Israel in the Millennium3. How can Yeshua be present at the same time?(Earthly price co-ruling with Yeshua?)
Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 42:88 I am Yahweh, that is My name; And My glory I will not give to another, Nor My praise to carved images.
Will the Conquering King (Yeshua)(the Lion of the Tribe of Judah)share His power and glorywith a human prince?
Yehezqel (Ezekiel) 46:1616 'Thus says Yahweh Elohim: "If the prince gives a gift of some of his inheritance to any of his sons, it shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance.”
And if Yeshua is physically here in person for 1,000 years,then how is there roomfor this prince?
Is Yeshua a Levitical Priest?If not, how can He presidein the renewed Levitical temple?
Who was taught this:-Yeshua will catch us all up in a “rapture,”- and take us all back to the land of Israel in a cloud
Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 66:2020 Then they shall bring all your brethren for an offering to YHWH out of all nations, on horses and in chariots and in litters, on mules and on camels, to My Set-Apart Mountain Jerusalem," says YHWH.
Maybe thehorses, chariots, litters, mules and camels are thetrains, planes and automobilesof the modern era?
What part of that says “Yeshua will take us back to the land of Israel in a cloud”?
Things were not adding up,But let’s do a quick review of “Two House” theoryto explain the next prophecies.
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (Israel)Israel had 12 sons (12 tribes)Joseph went into Egypt
After 430 Years, Moshe (Moses) brought the Israelites out of Egypt
Then came 480 years of Judges.Then Kings David & Solomon.After that, the kingdom split.- SPLIT -1 Kings 11-12
10 10 “Two House Theory”Twelve tribes of Israel“House of Israel” (North)“House of Judah” (South) 2 2
10 10 House of Israel (Ephraim) Taken to the dispersion(Assyrian Diaspora)House of Judah (Jacob) -Babylonian Exile- Jews of first century-Roman Exile-Also “the Jews” of today 2 2
10 Mattityahu (Matthew) 15:2224 But [Yeshua] answered and said, "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel (ten tribes)."
Kepha Aleph (1 Peter) 1:11 Kepha, an apostle of Yeshua Messiah, To the pilgrims of the (Assyrian) Dispersion(Lost Ten Tribes) in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia….