Dear Chance,
Thank you for your reply, I totally agree with
everything you said in your response to me on 21st of Feb:
After sending my first letter I came across with
Luke 17:30-31 that seem to tie the Revealing of the Son of
Man and the "Abomination of Desolation" together.
Luke 17:30-31 says that:
17:30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son
of man is revealed.
17:31 In that day, he which shall be upon the
housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come
down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him
likewise not return back.
Luke
If you compare this to the Gospel of Matthew, the
similarity becomes clear:
24:15 When ye therefore shall see the abominationp
of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in
the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
…
24:17 Let him which is on the housetop not come
down to take any thing out of his house:
24:18 Neither let him which is in the field return
back to take his clothes.
Matt.
I think the Revealing of the Son of Man is not the
Second Coming of Christ but the Rapture since as you said,
the Jews are urged to flee Jerusalem when the Abomination
of Desolation happens i.e. it is surrounded by the armies
of the enemy like Jesus says according to Luke in the
Olivet Discourse (Luke 21:20). Please also see the
comparison of Ezekiel's prophecy on the Judgement of
Jerusalem (Ezek. 8-11) below.
You had a double link to my first letter in your
response, but this discovery can be read in my second
letter on 22nd of Jan here:
"The Possibility of a Pre-Trib-Pre-Wrath Rapture"
I also think we can have detailed information on
the order and timing of the events of the End Times end,
even on the so called Daniel's extra days of 1290 and 1335
days.
I've previously used a different email address,
here's my study on the prophecy of the "Seventieth Week of
Daniel" which I agree is divided into two parts, one
already fulfilled in the First Coming of Jesus Christ and
the second part yet to be fulfilled just before His Second
Coming, hopefully in not so distant future:
"Daniel's 70th Week of Years"
About the Ezekiel's prophecy on the Judgement or
destruction of Jerusalem, I think this vision lays out the
basic structure of the Judgement of the whole world in the
End Times end: first it has the "seat of the image of
jealousy" in Jerusalem's Temple area which has provoked
God into His Anger (Ezek. 8:3). This seat (or altar, Ezek.
8:5) can be seen as referred to in the New Testament as
the image of the beast (Rev. 13:14-15) and possibly also
the actions of the man of lawlessness "seating" himself in
the (New Testament Spiritual) Temple of God" and declaring
to be God Himself (2 These 2:4).
Then the Glory of God calls up six men and a Man
Clothed with Linen (apparently Old Testament description
of Jesus) and orders Him to go to the City and set a mark
upon the foreheads of those who "sigh and that cry for all
the abominations that be done in the midst thereof" (Ezek.
9:2-4, compare with the Hundred and Forty and Four
Thousand Sealed, Rev. 7:3) to save them (compare with the
Raptured) and to kill everyone else (Ezek. 9:5). This has
Ezekiel to plea for the saving of the Remnant of Israel
(Ezek. 9:8) that they would also be saved (compare with
Woman fleeing into the Wilderness, Rev. 12:6).
Next the Glory of God orders the Man Clothed with
Linen to spread coals of fire over the City from the
Temple's Altar to burn Jerusalem (Ezek. 10:2, compare with
Seven Angels pouring out fire over the whole earth from
the Golden Altar of the Prayers of the Saints in Heaven,
Rev. 8:2, 5). In Revelation the order to carry out the
Judgement is coming from God Himself through the Judgment
Book of the Earth, sealed with Seven Seals and from the
Lamb who receives the Book after being declared Worthy to
open and read it (Rev. 5:5, 7).
Ezekiel's vision ends in the departure of the Glory
of God from the midst of the City and settling down on a
hill east of Jerusalem (Ezek. 11:23), very possibly the
Mount of Olives (Zech 14:4). This is where I think
Danies's 70th Week is divided into two parts: Jesus was
Ascended to Heaven from the Mount of Olives in His First
Coming, but the mount did not split up (as Zecharias
prophesied, Zech. 14:4) at that time, but will
ultimately split when Christ Returns the Second Time. First
He will however Come in the Clouds to Gather up His Elect, a
pure virgin, to be with Him always (Matt. 24:31, 1 These.
4:16-17, Rea. 14:4).
Now if you think of what Lukes implies with the
Reavaling of the Son of Man and the Abomination of
Desolation (Luke. 17:30-31), this all becomes very clear: we
will be Raptured when it's not safe for us to be on the
earth anymore. I think this is described us otherwise in the
Book of Revelation as the "Hour of Temptation" (Re. 3:10).