Posted on 11/12/2021 4:04:53 AM PST by The Ignorant Fisherman
The tribulation altar and the Holy of Holies will be Satan's primary target for destruction and desolation in the seven-year tribulation period (Dan. 9:27; 12:7; Rev. 11:1-3). However, when we look at Daniel 9:26; we see that some 2000 years earlier that; Messiah would be cut off (crucified, but not for Himself (Isa. 53, John 3:16-17; 1 John 4:10); and after that; the city and sanctuary were to be destroyed which took place in 70 A.D. The ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS propitiation and finished work of the Messiah put out of business the Temple and Altar; for Messiah fulfilled it perfectly (Matt.26:28; Luke 22:20; Mark 14:24; Rom. 10:2-4; 1 Cor. 11:25; Hebrew 5-10).
In the rejection of Messiah and His Kingdom offer, Almighty God stopped Israel's prophetic clock at 69 weeks or 483 years and then established His Divine mystery of the Church Age made up of Jewish and Gentile believers in Yeshua!
In the rejection of Messiah and His Kingdom offer, Almighty God stopped Israel's prophetic clock at 69 weeks or 483 years and then established His Divine mystery of the Church Age made up of Jewish and Gentile believers in Yeshua (Dan. 9:24-27; Matt. 16:17-18; John 1:10-12; Acts 2; Rom. 7-8; Eph. 5:30-32, Col. 1:27). It will be after the Rapture of the Church, that Almighty God will again begin to move in the nation of Israel (His chosen people) via the Two Witnesses of Revelation, and will fulfill the 70th week of Daniel while seeking to call Israel and the entire world to Divine repentance (Rev. 11:3-7); for the risen Messiah's and ETERNAL King of Israel's return is very nigh and His Kingdom at hand! During this time Almighty God will then go back to the Levitical sacrificial system to communicate and point to the finished work of the Messiah. This is why for the very reason that we see and read much information about the altar, the Temple, sacrifices, and oblations at this time (Isa. 53; Dan. 9:27;12:7;11; Joel 1:15-16; Zech. 2:10-14; Matt. 24:15; John 19:30; Rom. 10:2-4; Hebrews 5-10; 1 John 4:10; Rev. 11:1-3). The tribulation period is all about bringing Israel to repentance and being made ready to receive their Messiah and King at His coming (Matt. 6:10-13; 24; 25; Zech. 12:10-14; 14).
During this time Almighty God will then go back to the Levitical sacrificial system to communicate and point to the finished work of the Messiah!
Why the Altar Attack?
My beloved; This is absolutely why the tribulation altar and the Holy of Holies will be Satan the Dragon's primary target for destruction and desolation in the seven-year tribulation period (Dan. 9:27; 12:7; Rev. 11:1-3). Firstly, the altar points to Messiah's finished work and propitiation which offers ETERNAL salvation to all by faith in Him; not ETERNAL desolation (Lev. 17:11-14; Isa. 53; John 19:30; Rom. 10:2-4; 1 John 4:10)! Secondly; Satan was ETERNALLY crushed and ETERNALLY defeated on Almighty God's altar and cross (Gen. 3:15; Heb. 2:14-15; Rev. 1:17-18; 20:10)! Thirdly; Satan absolutely despises any work and promise of Almighty God and will with all his remaining rage and demonic being through his tangible host the antichrist with great fury seek to prevent Israel (and all nations) from coming to faith in Messiah; and will also seek to derail all of Almighty God's remaining promises for them in their ETERNAL Lamb and King (Dan. 9:24-27; 12:1-13; Zech. 13:8-9; 14:1-4; Rev. 12:7-17)! Lastly; Satan is on a total self-preservation mission and bent; knowing that his ETERNAL doom is very nigh and at hand (Rev. 12:7-17). All are expendable and all is on Satan's altar to preserve his demonic delusional dreams of ETERNAL rebellion against His ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS Creator (Isa 14:12-17; Ezek. 28:12-19; John 8:44; Rev. 12:12; 20:1-3; 20:10)! With the ETERNAL resurrection of Messiah, Satan was ETERNALLY defeated and nothing in all of ETERNITY can ever override and overturn that established ETERNAL ABSOLUTE and TRUTH (Isa. 45:23; Rom. 14:11; Phil. 2:5-11; Heb. 13:8)!
Beloved; in the end, King Jesus wins BIG, EVERY single time; and we who are in Christ Jesus should rejoice continually and always!
Beloved; at the end of Satan and man's vain little tiny rebellion, King Jesus ETERNALLY WINS and we who are in Christ Jesus should rejoice continually and always in that ETERNAL GLORIOUS TRUTH (Phil. 4:4)! In closing; do you personally know the Lord Jesus as your Lord and Savior? O, my dear friend, it is ALL about Jesus and His RIGHTEOUSNESS; Be sure that you personally know Jesus as the Scriptures so simply and clearly teach.
The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!
Tell me, before Paul was chosen, how many times did Christ meet with Gentiles before his crucifiction. Did he not tell his apostles to go not unto the way of the Gentiles? I submit during his life, death, burial, crucifiction and ascendence, he was the Jewish Messiah, which was rejected by them. With Paul, a new and entirely different chapter is opened, and now, finally, the Christian outreach is to the world.
I agree that “He came unto His own, and His own received Him not.” and that Jesus went *first* to the Jews, as God’s promises had declared. BUT - BIG BUT - God in no way was ignorant of opportunity, such as Man would be, until Paul the greatest human came along. No. God is omniscient and knew that the Jews, His chosen people SOLELY because of the promise to Abraham, His friend, He would keep - BUT, as we know through Paul’s epistles, that God’s promise to Abraham to increase his offspring as the stars of Heaven and the sands of the shores was NOT just the Jews but Gentiles too. God knew all along. So, Jesus’ work was *first* to the Jews as a fulfillment of promise, but, Jesus, being 100% God while ALSO being 100% Human also knew of His Father’s plan to also proclaim the Gospel of FREE salvation to the WHOLE world, Jews first, then Gentiles. Unconditionally. A fool’s game, but let’s play it - IF the Jews accepted Christ as Messiah - would God have stopped there? NO. Because, again, Jesus’ own words, God sent His Son to save the WHOLE world - not JUST the Jews.
Therefore, God, in His amazing wisdom that Man counts as foolishness, used Paul, a strong antagonist against the young Christian body, in his righteous zeal (SELF-righteous), in that God would teach Paul (Saul) a profound lesson about works of Man, cloaked in piety and zeal, they are worthless. ALL Saul’s ‘wisdom’ was worthless. All Saul’s religious training was worthless. All Saul’s standing in the community and with the elders was worthless. THIS was the lesson God taught Paul(Saul) - as Paul so gladly admits. All his works were like dung. Point being - God brings low the proud and exalts the humble. Saul was a classic case of Religious Superiority. Not until he met Jesus King of Kings and Lord of Lords, the Alpha and Omega, Beginning and End, Ancient of Days, Creator of all things, did Paul now know that he was nothing - just another flawed proud human being that needed Christ. He learned to die to self. Thus was why Paul’s ministry great. Because he devoided himself daily of Self as God.
amen.
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