Re: Arlene’s post to Brandon

Amen sister! You bless me so!!  I also believe "but of that day and hour knoweth no man..." is a reference to the passing away of heaven and earth, which truly is an unknown day and hour.

Jesus placed the passing away of heaven and earth within the same generation which sees the fig tree shoot forth (IMO June 7, 1967). If a generation is forty years (and I do believe it is), the final forty years will end with the passing away of heaven and earth, which should happen in May 2007. How can it be?

We know that there is yet to come seven years of tribulation followed by one thousand years of millennium. But after that is an undefined period of time simply called "a little season" (Rev. 20:3, 7-9) during which Satan will be released from the abyss to go out and do his evil work one last time. He will actually go out and raise an army to come against the Lord Jesus in Jerusalem (I’m almost, but not quite, tempted to feel sorry for him). At that point, fire comes down from God out of heaven and destroys them. The next thing that happens is the white throne judgment, followed by the creation of a new heaven and a new earth (Rev. 21:1). I believe that fire in Rev. 20:9 is the same fire that Peter mentioned, and it is the destruction of this present creation, and it happens at the end of a period of time simply called "a little season".

The phrase is used one other time in the Bible: Rev. 6:9-11 regarding the souls under the alter. They cry out for vengeance and are told to "rest yet a little season until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled." If these souls are slain during the last half of the tribulation, after the mark of the beast is required, that would indicate "a little season" is a period of three and one-half years or less. The next comment out of the altar occurs at the third bowl judgment. The third angel pours out his bowl on the rivers and fountains of waters and they become blood. The angel of the waters makes a statement, and then (Rev. 16:7) "I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments." At that point, the prayer of the souls under the altar is answered to their satisfaction. Glory!

So then, what to do with a period of time that is part of the final generation but does not end for at least one thousand and seven years from now? Seems pretty simple to me: there is going to be a gap in the final generation similar to the gap between the sixty-ninth and seventieth weeks. It is God’s clock and he can start it and stop it at will.

All that to say this: if a generation is forty years and if the final generation began on June 7, 1967, then that little season right now is a period of about eighteen months, and part of that has to be saved for the end of the millennium.

Anybody else looking up?

Deborah Fenech
...then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air...