Fascinating how it's 2,000 years

In Luke 19, Jesus Christ says, [43] For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,

[44] And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

“That’s saying, ‘You didn’t recognize Messiah the prince was here; you’re going to kill Him and destruction is coming.’ That’s the destruction that Daniel 9:26 is talking about, in which it says ‘and the end thereof.’

[26] 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.
[27] And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

“In Daniel 9 he skips all the way from the crucifixion of Christ and the destruction of Jerusalem and the destruction of the temple to 'the last days'. That interval is going to extend that whole period of time," explains Richard Jordan.

“We know now that in that interval, not only is there this time of persecution and destruction of Israel, but we also know God has interrupted prophecy and interposed the dispensation of grace.

“When Christ interrupted prophecy and introduced the preaching of Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began but now is made manifest, that’s a different program and that’s the dispensation of grace in which we live today. It’s lasted almost 2,000 years. Daniel would have never thought about that.

“Think about it like this. Genesis 1-11, when God just dealt with the nations, was about 2,000 years. From Genesis 12, the calling out of Abraham, to Luke 19 is about 2,000 years. Now He’s had the dispensation of grace for about 2,000 years. It’s fascinating that that keeps coming up that way.

“After the dispensation of grace comes the 70^th Week of Daniel. The stage-setting for that will take place where we are before we leave.

“The point is the world’s not going to get any better; it’s headed for the wreck. It’s headed for the Titanic, the Lusitania. The wreckage is going to be this last week in Daniel 9:27.

“What Daniel does is he lays out a template, a timeline on which you then can go through the Book of Daniel, through the Book of Revelation, through the Prophets, and lay onto that timeline all these different events.

“The covenant’s going to be for seven years but it’s going to be divided into two parts. It’s going to have a specific beginning and then in the midst . . . I point out to you, he doesn’t say the middle; he says the midst.

“The reason for that is terminology means things. The midst of something isn’t exactly the middle. There’s 3 ½ years on each side; it’s divided into two parts. But what we’ll see is there’s a period of time in the midst of that week where a whole bunch of things are going to take place and are going to change.

“The man of sin’s going to be revealed as the son of perdition. But it doesn’t take place like that. It takes about a 30-day period of time. You’re looking for the time period, not on a particular day, and the second part is going to be worse than the first part, because it’s in the second part that he’s revealed as 'the son of perdition'.

“He’s not simply going to be ‘the man of sin,’ but now he’s going to be the son of Satan and there’s going to be a tremendous persecution. That’s when ‘the mark of the beast’ takes place. That’s when all the heavy stuff happens. And then it’s going to have an end when Jesus Christ comes and just destroys it.”

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