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Prophetic events is one of the most intriguing revelation when it comes to biblical prophecy. There are volumes of books written about it, with different views to chose from. Concerning Daniels' seventy weeks prophecy, as far as we know it from the Bible, 0ne week or seven years have yet to be fulfilled.

In Daniel 9:24 it says, ''Seventy weeks are determined upon 'thy people'' and upon they ''holy city'' to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.''

Seventy weeks is of course 490 years if the computation would be like this 70 x 7= 490 years. Now many theologians in both camps, liberals, and conservatives concurr that 69 weeks were already fulfilled, and the remaining one week or 7 years have yet to be fulfilled. How did they come up with this notion that 69 weeks had already been fulfilled. The remaining one week or 7 years is known as the Tribulation period, or Jacob's trouble. In Daniel 9:25,26 says, ''Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. (v26) And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.''

The seventy weeks of Daniel prophetic events start from the commandment of rebuilding of Jerusalem, and it will stop momentarily at the death of the Messiah (The Lord Jesus Christ) which consist altogether 69 weeks. The remaining one week or seven years will continue as soon as the anti-christ will come to the scene. So from the time Jesus Christ was crucified the seventy weeks stop, and a new era was introduced known to be the grace period or the Church age. It's been two thousand years had passed till then, but the anti-christ had yet to come into our world. We are still at the moment in the grace period which is great, but as time goes on it seem that the anti-christ would come into our world any moment.

Right now as we speak the world is converging into One World Government, Religion, and Economy. It sound like the three legs stool Rick Warren is trying to promote. The World in the future would become One Socialist State, Open borders, and One Eartly race. Now of course there are few setback that the world have to fix, and overcome before the One World Order should be successful. They have to get rid of Israel once and for all, or they can get some peace treaty going between the Islamic world and Israel. Fact is, the Bible said that the Anti-Christ himself will get that done temporarily. So mostlikely, there will be a brilliant man out in this world that can make that happen in the near future.

Well in Daniel 9:26 it says, ''And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations ar determined.''

Now in 70 AD the temple (Herod temple) was destroyed by the Roman army. Not a single stone was left behind, and since then there is no temple that had been erected in Israel till now. However, in Daniel 9:36 it says that the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Therefore, in the future a temple will be rebuilt in Israel, and animal sacrifice will again be reinstituted. Now there are many pastors that went to Israel in recent years, and they have witness young men being trained to become priests to serve in the temple. As time goes by, and the way our world is converging to one world order, I believed that the coming of the anti-christ into our world is in the horizon. yes, we don't know the time and the hour, but this prophetic events are unfolding as we speak.

In Matthew chapter 24 Jesus Christ stated those events that would take place before the end of the world. Matthew 24:1-2 says, ''And jesus went out, and departed from the temple; and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? Verily I say unto you, there shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be trown down.'' Of course Jesus Christ is speaking concerning the destruction of the Herod Temple which eventually took placed in 70 A. D. Now at present time Israel have no temple to continue the animal blood sacrificed as they did during the time of Moses that lasted when the temple was destroyed by the Roman Army.

Of course the disciples want to know the rest of the story, the future of the world as they know it. They asked Jesus, ''and as he sat upon the mount Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? So Jesus disciples asked three things, When shall these things be, second, what shall be the sign of your coming, and third, and the end of the world.?

Jesus answered and said, ''take heed (beware) that no man deceive you, for many shall come in my name, saying I am Christ, and shall deceive many. (Matthew 24:4-5) First sign would be deception from religious leaders claiming to be the the Lord Jesus Christ. Many pretenders came and gone as history came along. In our present day we have in the Philippines one prominent religious leader that claimed to be the the appointed son of God. His name is no other than Quiboloy, and if you want to know more about this false teacher from the Philippines, you can find him in the World Wide internet. Jesus Christ says, beware that no one will deceive you to those persons who claim to be Christ.

Jesus Christ continue on ans said, ''And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars; see that ye be not troubled for all thses things must come to pass, but the end in not yet. For nation shall rise against nations, and kingdom against kingdom and there shall be famines, and pestilense, and earthquake, in divers places, all thses are the beginning of sorrows.'' (Matthew 24:6-8 KJV).

Jesus Christ said, wars, earthquakes, pestilence, famines are only the beginning of sorrows. Well we are up against earthquakes after eartquakes, wars in all sides of the world, pestilence famines were almost in every part of the world, but Jesus Christ these are only the beginning of sorrows. However, these wars, earthquakes, pestilence, famines that were happening in our world today will not going to end the world as we know it. It is only the beginning of sorrows. How long are we going to be in denial that God does not exist, Salvation is not true, Jesus Christ is only a myth, and heaven and hell does not exist. If the world will not going to wake up to all these sorrows and come to God in repentance, what would be the future when God unleashed the finality of the prophecy. Yes, we asked prayers when calamity hits, we cry, sometimes we curse God why all these calamities are going on. But we don't want to look unto Jesus Christ as our Savior. We want to be comforted in time of earthquakes, famines, wars, but we reject the one who said, ''Come unto me and I'll give you rest. You see, Jesus Christ is the Prince of Peace, and have the power to give peace to all that recieved Him as the Savior and Lord. ''Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you; not as the world giveth, give I unto you, let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.'' (John 14:27 kjv). ''For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.'' (Isaiah 9:6 kjv).

Jesus Christ continue and said, ''Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye hsall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended (caused to stumble) and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another; and many false properties shall rise, and shall deceive many.'' (Matthew 24:9-11 kjv).

Now under the umbrella of Christianity we know that there are so many disagreement between doctrinal teachings, musics, religious practices, but they are not going around killing each other because of disagreements. We know also that their are false religion in particular the Islam going around killing people who don't agree with them. Again, not all in Islamic community are participant in the killings of Christians, and some other religions that do't agree with them. In Communist countries like China, they do execute Christians, under thier rule most Christians were in hiding, and they cannot openly worship their God without the Chinese government. Bibles were consfiscated, and the perpertrators were put in prisons.

Since Christians were mandated by God to spread the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to the uttermost part of the world, in general they are being mock, malign, bitten up, and worst killed in the line of duty. As Israel were hated by Iran, and most nations around the world, so with the Christians bearing the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. In United State alone where you can freely practice your religious preference, in public schools Bible were not allowed, the name Jesus Christ is forbidden to talked about, spreading the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ in public schools were forbidden, worst praying in the name of Jesus Christ is an abomination to public shools, but glory sexual pervertions. Yes, time is coming around the world that being a Christians would be the trash of the world. If they hated the Lord Jesus Christ, Christians will be hated also by the world. In First John 2:15 says, ''Love not the world, neither the things (that are) in the world. If any man Love the world, the love of the Fathe is not in him. Apostle John also wrote, ''If ye were of the world, the world would love his own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.'' (John 15:19 kjv). Again, those who hated the Lord Jesus Christ, also hated all Christians the follower of Christ. Christians indeed are different from the world, because they have the Holy Spirit in them, while the world was being powered by the spirit of darkness, the Devil himself. The Devil is at war with God, and his people from the beginning of the creation. The Devil have an agenda, to destroy the people of God. Is it any wonder why the Islamic religion want to irradicate Israel in the face of the earth, and kill Christians wherever, whenever they find them. That is why Jihad is a religious war between God and the Devil and of course the God of the Universe will be the victor according to the Bible.

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