A
special thanks to Dave Hasselbeck for his encouragement on my website.
I am blessed to know that the information on the website has helped you
and that you have studied it and even printed it out. I made most of
the pages on a jpg format so that it would be easy to copy and paste to
Word or to Power Point if anyone wants to take any of the information
and use it to share with friends or in churches. One note, in David's
email he left out the "s" in the word "web" so if you click on the link
he wrote, it will not open. Here is the correct link and I've copied
the first page of the website that he was also referring to for
everyone to read.
We study history because we want to learn from
the past. History often repeats itself and we want to learn from past mistakes
so as not to make the same mistakes again.
The Biblical scholars of Jesus’ day were anxiously awaiting the appearance of
their Messiah. They had studied so intently the prophecies about this Messiah
and were certain that they would recognize him when he came. They knew where he
would be born and the approximate time when he would come. They had so many
prophecies about the kind of person he would be and the things that he would
fulfill when he came. Their mistake was that they became too certain of their
own interpretations about the Messiah and they completely missed him when he
came. Could the same be true today? So many Biblical scholars are studying
prophecy, and yet could so many of these prophecies about the end times and
second coming of Christ have already been fulfilled over the last 2 years with
hardly anyone noticing???
As we look back, it seems amazing to us that the
people of Jesus’ day who were waiting for the Messiah actually missed it
because of all the Scriptures that Jesus fulfilled. Even the disciples did not
see many of the prophecies that Jesus fulfilled until after His resurrection
and then their eyes were opened. Perhaps God actually blinds us so that we
cannot see that what is happening is the fulfillment of prophecies until years
after the events take place so that He can get all the glory for fulfilling
prophecy to the letter without anyone even noticing that it has been fulfilled.
It does seem that God has scattered prophecies of Jesus’ first and second
comings throughout the Old and New Testaments like hidden jewels of treasure.
Just a verse here and there, waiting for their fulfillments when one day we
will all look back and be amazed at how they were all fulfilled right in front
of us and no one even saw it, just like at His first coming!
As we read through the Gospels, we can see the writers pointing out so many
prophecies that Jesus fulfilled from the Old Testament. But most of these
prophecies were not recognized as being fulfilled until years later, after
Jesus had resurrected. So today, I believe that many of the prophecies that we
are waiting fulfillment may have actually already taken place right in front of
our eyes, and the Church has missed them! Only God can do that – have
prophecies so specific written thousands of years in advance and have millions
of His people watching and awaiting their fulfillment, and then the prophecies
are fulfilled, the events are all over the news, and we all miss it! Glory to
God! He deserves all glory for doing this, and it is nothing short of
miraculous!
When
will Jesus’ Second Coming take place?
When will Jesus come back to the earth? It’s the
granddaddy of all theological questions. Most theologians will argue that Jesus
said no one would know when He will return, so they throw the question out.
However, I believe that we can know when Jesus is returning to the earth. The
Bible says that God does nothing without first revealing it to His servants the
prophets. There were many prophecies regarding Jesus’ first coming; even the
time of His coming was announced hundreds of years before it took place (see
Daniel 9). But unfortunately the vast majority of people in His day, even those
who were looking for Him and studying the prophecies, completely missed Him
when He came. It did not happen in the way they thought it was going to happen.
It was their preconceived ideas of how the Scriptures would be fulfilled that
kept them blind to what was happening and they simply could not see that Jesus
was fulfilling every prophecy because it wasn’t in the way that they were
expecting the prophecies to be fulfilled.
And so it is again. History repeats itself. The Bible gives us so much evidence
as to when Jesus will come back, and yet few people know when He is coming. May
God open our blind eyes and deaf ears to see and to hear His Word and the truth
about His Second Coming to the earth so that we can “number our days” and use
them wisely because the time is so short. May our preconceived ideas begin to
fall away as we see that the Scriptures have been and are being fulfilled IN
OUR DAY that point to the time of His return.
This website is not for those who are looking for quick and simple answers. You
will need to become like the Bereans in Acts 17 who “studied the Scriptures
every day to see if what Paul said was true.” There is so much evidence in
Scripture that points to the exact timing of Jesus’ Second Coming to earth,
that I simply cannot just write point A, B and C and then you will understand.
Only those who truly seek the truth will find it. I do hope you will seek the
truth in what I write and the Lord will illuminate your mind and heart to see
where we really are in His plan for mankind.
GENERAL
TIME PERIOD OF SECOND COMING OF CHRIST
If we look at the prophecies regarding Jesus’ first
coming, we can see that some of them take up entire chapters in the Old
Testament, while others are just a verse here and there, sort of hidden between
other texts. With Jesus’ Second Coming, some of the prophecies are also
somewhat scattered and hidden with other texts, while there are other
prophecies that are more obvious like portions of Daniel and Revelation.
The first thing we need to look at is the GENERAL time period when Jesus will
return (yes it is in the Scriptures!). The epistle of Barnabas (not part of the
Scriptures, but taught to the early Christians) teaches us that God has a
7000-year plan for mankind. For more understanding of this teaching, please go
to the section entitled “7000 year plan of God”.
If you study the material presented there, you will see that we are right at
the end of the 6000 years since Adam, as well as 2000 years after Christ. We
are certainly in the time period when Jesus will come back to the earth. Daniel
12 talks about the words or prophecies about the Second Coming being closed or
“sealed” until the time of the end. It says that many will go here and there to
increase in knowledge. We can see over the last century how so much has changed
in the world with the modern-day inventions. There is so much knowledge in the
world today. Jesus rebuked those people in His day that could interpret the
weather, but could not interpret the signs of the times. Let us open our minds
to what God has to say in His Word about His return and not be ignorant as were
the people of His day.