And what is a snare but a hidden trap that is sprung only when the one to be entrapped is right into it.
Thus, ... this "7" year peace "covenant with RABin/MANY", with the NOW famous HANDSHAKE, which SO LOOKS TO BE the VERY "7 year" (deceitful) covenant of Daniel 9:27, is STILL seemingly HIDDEN to many.
AND SO, ... we NOW approach the SPRINGING of the SNARE, and suddenly THEN, the PRESENTLY lurking anti-Messiah will unveil himself and demand worship; and shortly thereafter, he will receive almost total dominion via his co-hort's (the false prophet) compulsory world wide 666 system of buying and selling.
If one has a strong bias of what scripture says before one reads it, that one may NEVER be forewarned by what it really says. So, let's encourage one another to be like Daniel, who one day read a scripture that he possibly had read many times before, and it jumped right off the page for him. This was regarding a prophecy that Jeremiah had written about 70 years earlier. Daniel then began to pray and chasten himself and confess his sins and those of his people, and God's righteous judgements. He then received amazing further revelation, which is for this very generation.
It appears from what the angel told Daniel, that Daniel had thought Messiah was about to come, but because of his humility before God and his fellow men, he was graciously corrected. He was informed that after 483 years from the time of a specific, (at that time still future), command to rebuild the city and walls of Jerusalem, Messiah would come but be rejected and killed.
This has already happened, even to the very day. So the timing of the first coming of Messiah was precisely given.
Whereas the second coming is not so precisely given, perhaps because the Saviour was largely rejected at His first coming.
But the coming of the deceitful prince, the anti-Messiah, IS PRECISELY GIVEN to us through Daniel. This prince is BEHIND the CAUSING of a 7 year (deceitful peace) treaty "WITH RABIN" and it's "STRENGTHening for 7" (years) -- AS IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW IN FRONT OF OUR EYES!!!
Scripture does NOT say that this (deceitful) prince signs the covenant, NOR that he openly makes it, ONLY that he "CONFIRMS" it, i.e. "CAUSES the COVENANT WITH RAB(IN) to be STRENGTHENED, for 7" -- JUST AS HE HAS NOW, FOR MORE THAN 5 YEARS!!!
Yeshua said, when you SEE!!! what Daniel wrote about!!!
Doesn't that mean we should be watching and expecting to be able to SEE something?
And we know from many scriptures that this event occurs IN THE CONTEXT of a DECEITFUL 7 year PEACE treaty, that instead, leads to "sudden destruction" -- AND WE CAN SEE preparations for this, right in front of us, NOW!
This unveiling of anti-Messiah will be "abominable / astonishing / overwhelming / numbing / stupefying / deceitful". The anti-Messiah will thus be readily welcomed by everyone except for those whose names are written in the Lamb's -- PRAISE HIS WONDERFUL NAME! -- book of life.
Speaking of DECEIT: (three terrible DECEITFUL errors grip God's people today)
The eternal good news of creation elicits worship to Elohim, (Elohim is Hebrew for God), who made the heavens and the earth and all that is in them in 6 days, and blessed it and described it as very good, and rested on the 7th day. The evolutionary bias has permeated and gripped the hearts, minds and lives of even most of the Bible Schools of today. If the foundations be destroyed, ... ?
Divorce and remarriage is rampant, even among elders and pastors. Rather than protect our brethren's spouses, we now steal them and delight in this false teaching; and the people like to have it so. So just as at Messiah's 1st coming, this also is a "wicked ADULTEROUS generation".
Rev. 20:4-6 instructs us that the first resurrection does not take place until AFTER all the saints who are to be martyred, INCLUDING those martyred for not taking the 666 mark, have been martyred.
Clearly there can be NO (general) resurrection BEFORE the FIRST (general) RESURRECTION!
And THE REST of the dead lived NOT again UNTIL the thousand years were finished!
Note! We are not explicitly told by scripture just how much AFTER this FIRST resurrection that the rapture occures ... only that it is AFTER!!!
Yes, the Lord is first judging His house; and as warned in scripture, such ones, like the fornicator in 1 Cor. 5:5, are being given over to the devil for the destruction of the flesh that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. And this seems to be (increasingly?) taking place during these last years, as also the following scriptures seem to indicate: Dan. 7:25; 8:23-26; 11:35-36; 12:9-13.
It was announced on a Toronto radio station and in a Toronto paper just the first week of June 1996, right after the Bilderbergers meeting, that the city of Guelph Ontario was to go cashless by that fall in preparation for all of Canada to be cashless by early 1998. The system used is called Mondex, (MONetary DEXterity), and is a card with a memory chip in it to carry electronic cash and work as a debit card too. NOW, in early 1999, the "infrastructure" looks to be WELL IN PLACE!One of the often expressed concerns of the many New World Order groups, such as the Bilderbergers, is to DOWNSIZE the world's population to only 1 to 2 billion. Sadly, at the same time the Bilderbergers were plotting their cabal, (i.e. their conspiracy), at the opposite side of Toronto, Hal Lindsay and Grant Jefferies were, (unintentionally I believe), misleading God's people into parroting that STRONG DELUSION that they will be raptured before the tribulation. Very sadly, this precise lie would seem to be pivotal to the murderous snare that anti-Messiah has set to spring on God's people when they stumble into it, thinking that the mark system is still off in the future, since they haven't been raptured yet.
Please!!! Read and re-read Rev. 20:4-6 and like Daniel, humbly seek God's face, NOT any man's, regarding the full revelation of what this implies. Then, please, plead with your loved ones to do the same and urgently warn them to quite their adulteries and wicked unbelief and start to faithfully and lovingly obey the Lord, laying up treasures in heaven while there is still opportunity.
In Proverbs 1:23 the LORD pleads with us to turn at His reproof, so that He might pour out His Spirit upon us, and make KNOWN His Words to us. In Psalms 25:14, we discover that the secret of the LORD is with those who fear Him; He makes His covenant KNOWN to THEM. And the apostle John records Yeshua saying that if we really want to DO God's will, we will THEN KNOW the doctrine. If you earnestly ask the Lord, He will make KNOWN His words, covenant, and will to you, and He will also help you to help your loved ones not be overpowered by their traditions in preference to the plain words of God. Since ALL scripture is given for ... reproof, correction, doctrine ... Yeshua said, that if we err, it is because we really do not know the scriptures, or the power of God.
Just as the blind cannot see until God heals their eyes, so neither can the proud receive grace until God humbles them. So God pleads with us to humble ourselves ... and pray, and seek His Face, and TURN from any and every wicked way; since if we persistently won't, we become open to deception and will then BELIEVE A LIE AS THE TRUTH and then be judged of God through crisis.
God delights in broken, contrite hearts that love to obey His Word, but takes NO pleasure in the death of the wicked. Thus He waits and is long suffering, that by His goodness we might come to Him and be saved.
(*) (Revelation 1:7; Zechariah 12:9-14; Matthew 24:29-31)
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