Introduction
This work is devoted to decoding Bible prophecy. Today you can see many websites devoted to Bible prophecies. Everywhere you can read very promising titles "Everything you want to know about the "Revelation"", "Book of Daniel", lessons and presentations about these two books. That always made me feel uneasy: how ever people can claim that their work is correct without addressing to all prophets of the Bible.
So what is different about this work?
There ALL PROPHECIES RELATED TO THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS are presented in this work, therefore this work CAN BE fully trusted.Because the author of the work was the member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church for about 4 years, this was first addressed only to Adventist church members. A CD of this work was sent by mail to 56 major Adventist institutes of the USA and Canada on August , 2005. It was also presented to many Adventist pastors at the Alberta Camp meeting (Canada) in July, 2005. By e-mail it was sent to many English speaking Adventist churches worldwide, whose email addresses were available through internet research programs (autumn of 2005).
I was very surprised with the negative reactions brought out by my work. I had understood that for many Adventists unbiblical traditions of their church are more important than the truth of the Bible.
I know that the Holy Spirit directs me to bring this message to all His people. I'm not trying to achieve popularity, as some Adventists began to claim right away. I do not boast pride in my work, but I claim responsibility. I have to inform others, for I am just His servant. I receive no monetary consideration for my work. I have done that which was my duty to do - (Luke17:10). I am not going to organize a church. I do not have any desire to prove vs. revenge myself for the insults I have received. God is the Judge for those people. I left the Adventist church not wishing to listen to man's doctrines or a false prophet's interpretations any more, however I have nothing against the church's members, who are still our friends.It wasn't easy for me to realize, that ideas represented in this work, were given to me by the Holy Spirit. Revelation says: "And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life " (Rev 22:19). I was very cautious with the Scriptures, and only when I understood for certain, that ideas emerged in my consciousness, proceeded not from me, for "No prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation" (2Pet.1:20) I was ready to offer them to others.
I do not presently belong to any Christian denomination or affiliation, and everything which is submitted here, is absolutely independent research based only upon the Bible, historical materials and information from encyclopedias.
In the work there will be many cross-references to Adventist doctrines because their church is the one of few that teaches about the Second coming of Jesus and explains Bible prophecies. Therefore it was necessary to show mistakes of their doctrines, which are mostly based upon the writings of Ellen G. White (1827-1915), who they consider their prophet of God.
150 years ago Ellen White, ignoring the prophecy regarding the restoration of Jerusalem, the prophecy that knowledge about God had to reach all corners of the world and many other prophecies that had to be fulfilled before Jesus' Second coming, still had prophesied that Jesus would come shortly and all Bible prophecies already had been fulfilled in her time. So 150 years ago she taught that 6 seals were opened, the mark of the beast and the antichrist already were in place, etc. Adventists still teach the same things as she did, today.The Second coming of Jesus is very close, therefore, as never before, we need to know for certain, what the Bible says about what awaits us in the coming years.
Please, don't reach conclusions without reading to the end, because "He who answers a matter before he hears it, it is folly and shame to him" - (Prov.18:13).Detailed explanation of Bible prophecy presented in this work will not leave any doubt that we are just before the opening of the 6 th seal and no false prophet, no mark of the beast, not even 3 angels with their messages have happened yet.
Seeing my bad grammar (English is my second language) please don't make hasty conclusions: my bad English doesn't necessarily mean a bad education or lack of knowledge.
I like this old English saying: "A fool never changes his mind, but a wise man does" (similar to Prov.12:15 and 9:9). I hope that some of Adventists will.
The purpose of this message is to show the salvation and the Kingdom of Heaven are not exactly the same matters, as all churches preach. It is much more difficult to reach the Kingdom than to reach just salvation.
The given work is based on word by word translation of the Bible from Hebrew and Greek - see www.scripture4all.org
I purposely placed chapter 36."Summary" at top position of the Contents for those who want to see the short version of the work first
36.
Summary- p.24
The
prophecies, Jesus’ teachings about the Kingdom of Heaven, the meaning of the
feasts and its sacrifices, the structure of the Tabernacle, the meaning of
Jesus’ sacrifice – all pointed to the fact that Kingdom of Heaven is the
highest goal of salvation. And it is not the gift of God, but reward for the
labor of love.
Ellen
White - the prophet or a teacher?
– p.
1
This
work will demonstrate that E.White did not receive the vision from God about the
future, because her explanations of the prophecy is in a contradiction with the
Bible.
1. Time in
prophecies
– p.2
Prophetical
time – 360 days per year - has to be applied to every Bible prophecy.
2.
The principle of a parallelism in Bible prophecies
- p.2
The same
prophecy can say about different persons , or about different events.
3.
Satan on the empty earth during the 1000 years? –
p.3
Adventists
teach that Earth
during the 1000 years after the Second coming of Jesus will be empty, and only Satan
and his fallen angels will walk on it. However Bible says that after the Second
coming Satan will be cast
down into the pit, which according to the Bible is not a primary chaos, as
Adventists teach, but the place under the ground, which has been in existence
since the Flood till now.
An analysis of
the prophecy 2Pet.3:10 - p.3
Did Peter really said that Earth will be completely burned
out after the Second coming? No.
4. The Prophecy
about 1260 days of the power of the little horn
– p.4
A horn in
a prophecy symbolizes a person in power.
The little horn from Daniel’s vision is the papacy (always a one man -a pope-
had been in the authority). Its secular
power continued
from 606AD
to
1849AD - 1260 prophetical years.
5. Has GOD
Left Israel Forever?
– p.5
Christians
were included into the God's Israel through their faith in Jesus. They
had not replaced God's Israel, but were included into it. God's Israel - Israel
like Jacob, which is spiritual Israel (not Israel after flesh which is Israel
like Esau)- still exists. And according to the prophecies Israel will return to God
in the last days.
The
prophecy about the tree (Dan.4:10-16)
– p.5
When Jews
were in Babylonian slavery God had promised to them that in 7 times (2520
prophetical years) Jewish
kingdom ( without a king) will be restored. The
prophecy
had
fulfilled
in
1948, when
state of
Israel was created.
7.How to count years from BC to AD. Daniel's 70-weeks
prophecy - the Starting point –
p.6
The
starting point of the 70-weeks prophecy has to be counted from 446BC, not from
457BC. It is shown when seven weeks, 62 weeks and a half of the week of the
prophecy were
finished.
8.Now-
the
prophecy itself (Daniel 9:24-27)–
p.7
The
last
week
of
the
70 weeks
prophecy
was not finished
in 34AD, or
in 70AD, as many teach. It
will
finish
just
before
the
Second
coming
of
Christ.
The
last
half
of
the
last
week
- 3,5 years
is the time of the universal power
of the antichrist.
Antichrist will be active for 7 years,
but only last 3,5
years,
after
the occupation
of Jerusalem,
he
will receive
the complete
authority.
If Jesus was baptized in 31 AD, and Luke said that at that time Jesus was
"about thirty" , then...
When
Jesus was born? - p.7
9.The
prophecy about 2300 days
– p.8
After the
heavenly war the
Judgment was passed on Satan (in heaven) and on the little horn - Vatican (on
earth) in 1849AD. Satan and his angels were cast on the earth, and the Kingdom
of Heaven began to belong to the saints of the Most High. Thus after 2300 days
(2300 prophetical years) the Heavenly
sanctuary was cleansed. It took place in 1850 AD.
The prophecy is also about the last days. It tells that the temple in Jerusalem
will be constructed during the first 7 months of the 7-year's activity of the
antiChrist.
10.The
Opening of the Seals
– p.9
When
in 1850AD the
Kingdom of Heaven was cleansed after Satan and his angels, Jesus was elected as the
king and began to open the seals of the Book of Life. Today we are just before
the opening of the 6-th seal (planet -X), which will bring a global chaos and destructions.
After the global accident a man will appear who will be capable to stop the
disorder and anarchy, and he will be the antiChrist.
11.The
image and four beasts of Daniel's vision and the beast of "Revelation"
–
p.10
The 10
toes of the image from Daniel's prophecy are the 10 horns of the last beast of
"Revelation" - the beast, which will appear just before the Jesus'
coming. The
beast of "Revelation" is the union of countries.
12.
The Beasts of "Revelation"
- p.11
The woman
is true church of God; the dragon with 7 heads, 10 horns and 7 crowns on its
heads - Satan; the beast with 7 heads and 10 horns - NATO; 10 crowns on beast's horns - Security Council of United Nations; the beast with two horns
- the antichrist.
13.
The Whore of Babylon. Who is she?
-p.11
The Whore
sitting on the beast with 7 heads and 10 horns (NATO) is
Vatican -
Catholic church - the major church of Europe.
It will be
burnt as the out-of-date religious center of the world. The antichrist will sit
in Jerusalem - the new world religious center.
14.
The Trumpets of “Revelation”
– p.11
When
angels will blow into trumpets, they will not cause the destructions, but will
warn about that.
15.The 7-th trumpet
-
p.12
With the
sound of 7-th trumpet Jesus will come. The first harvesting - saints will be
taken to heaven. Second harvesting - the wicked will be destroyed.
7 bowls of
wrath will be poured out on the earth after the 1000 years.
16.Armageddon
– p.12
The 6-th
trumpet. Gog (Muslim countries) will go with the war against the antiChrist and
will win in the valley of Megiddo. 1260 days of the government of the antiChrist
will be finished. Then Gog will surround Jerusalem, and many Jews will be
killed. God will stop him, and Gog will kill himself. The Remnant are
those people, who will be left alive after the occupation of Jerusalem. They
will be the saints. In 1290 days from the first occupation of Jerusalem by the
antiChrist Jesus will come.
Identity
of Gog - p. 12
17.The two prophets
– p.13
These are
two prophets, not New and Old Testaments, as Adventists teach. They will
prophesy the last 3,5 years of antiChrist government.
18.After
the last battle
– p.13
During
The Second coming the alive and resurrected saints will be taken to heaven without
judgment. Then the judgment above the rest of living will be held: all the wicked,
who will receive the mark of the beast, will be eliminated. After that the righteous (the Remnant) will be left on earth. They will
cleanse the earth of the corpses. The Earth will be restored to its primary
beauty. From the 7-th trumpet to the end of the harvesting of the wicked - 1335
days.
19.New
or Restored Jerusalem?- p.13
Jerusalem
will be restored to its former greatness. The righteous who will be left on the
earth, will live more than hundred years like the Jews lived after the Exodus
when they had inherited the promised land ( the symbol of the restored
and the new earth). It will be the test: whether
or not people can be sinless without interactions of Satan and his angels.
However as
after
the Flood,
when
among the
sinless Noah’s family wickedness was aroused in a short time,
the wickedness among
children of the saved righteous
also will
arise shortly.
20.Second Resurrection-
p.14
The first
resurrection is for the saints, they will be taken to heaven without judgment
during the Second coming.
The second
resurrection will take place in 1000 years after the Second coming. It
will be for
"rest of people": for the wicked and for the righteous, who didn't reach the
Kingdom of Heaven. They all will go through the Judgment.
21.
Whether or not the
place for New Jerusalem will be prepared on our old planet?-
p.14
It
is Adventists' imagination.
The size doesn't match.
22.After
the 6-th bowl of wrath
–
p.15
After
the Second coming Satan will be imprisoned in the pit for the 1000 years.
Then he will be released. He again will gather for the war against
Jerusalem all unrighteous - unbelievers, haters of Jews (Gog). That will be the 6-th bowl
of wrath. Then God will pour upon them a rain of fire.
This will be
the pouring of the 7-th bowl of wrath and the Judgment above the living. The
righteous will be taken to heaven. The wicked will be left on the earth. The
rain of fire will create the lake of fire on the earth. After that the Judgment
above the resurrected will take place between the earth and heaven. The resurrected wicked will be
dumped on the old earth into the lake of fire. The old earth will be completely
consumed. God will create the New
earth, the
resurrected righteous will be taken onto there. And New Jerusalem with all saints will descent on the
new planet.
23.The
Judgment - p.15
The
judgment above
the alive
and
the dead.
The dead, who
will be resurrected first, are the saints, they will not be judged. During the
1000 years from the Kingdom of Heaven they
will judge the living, who will be left on the earth, and also angels and
the dead, who knew about God (those who did not know God, God Himself will judge).
24. Some of many
mistakes Adventists do in explaining of the prophecies - p.15
25.
The Order in "Revelation" - 15
Adventists
teach, that in "Revelation" there is no order, the Bible says that
there is one.
Time frame
of the last days-
p. 16
Graphical
presentation.
26.Who will be The BRIDE and who will be The GUESTS on the
WEDDING FEAST?
– pp.17,18,19
The bride
is the
saints, who
for the 1000 years in the Kingdom of Heaven will prepare
themselves for the priesthood on the new
Earth.
The
guests
are
the
righteous.
Jesus and the apostles taught clearly, that the salvation and Kingdom of Heaven
are not the same. Salvation is gift of God to all who believe in Him and keep
His commandments.
The Kingdom
of Heaven is award to the saved people for the perfection of their faith, which
comes through the hard work of love.
It is
impossible to enter the Kingdom without the faith in Jesus, therefore majority
of the Jews will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Those of them, who are the
true Israel- Israel like Jacob (ch.5), but had not accepted Jesus, will stay on
the earth after the Second coming.
The analysis of
the various doctrines
about what is
necessary for
salvation.
27. Is it important to know that not all saved people will
go to heaven???
– p.19
It is
very important, because we are the last generation before Jesus' coming.
Some of us
will be taken to the Kingdom of Heaven, others with tears of disappointment will
observe this event. While it is not late everyone can change something in his or
her life in order to come nearer to the Kingdom.
28.
Jesus - Michael, the great leader of angels
– p.20
Who was
Jesus before He came down to earth?
29. In the Beginning
– p.20
About the
conflict in the Kingdom of Heaven. How it began and how it will be finished.
30.Holy
Feasts
- p.21
All holy feasts and
religious rituals which God commanded Jewish people to observe, had symbolical
value and reflected the basic events on the earth and in heaven which should
come to pass in the future. The three most significant feasts
when all men had to appear before God, symbolized the God’s plan of salvation
of the people: Feast of
firstfruits - when saints will be taken to heaven, Feast of Weeks - when
the righteous will inherit the earth, and Feast of Tabernacles or gathering
fruits in the end of year - when saints and
the righteous will be united on the new earth.
31.
Sacrifices. When and why had they come to existence?
- p.21.
Sin
sacrifices had appeared only after the establishment of Leviticus priesthood. A
lamb never was sacrificed for a sin.
When
and
how
sacrifices were performed.
33. The
Meaning of Sacrifices on Holy Feasts -
p.22
The same
information which was coded in the meaning of the feasts (ch.30) was also coded
in the significance of the number and kind of the animals which were brought for
a sacrifice on those feasts.
34.Day
of Atonement-
p.23
The Day symbolized what had
occurred in heaven before Jesus' first coming, what had happened after His
resurrection, what’s happening today, what
will take place in His Second coming, and even what will occur in 1000 years
after the Second coming.
35.Passover
- p.23
The
salvation in ritual of Passover is secondary. The most important - Passover was
the ritual of the consecration of people into the priests for Kingdom of Heaven.
The
tabernacle symbolized the salvation. The structure inside of the tabernacle -
the sanctuary - symbolized the Kingdom of Heaven. In order to enter into the
sanctuary (Kingdom
of Heaven) priests (the elect) had to wash themselves with water from the laver
(symbol of water baptism which is repentance) and go through the curtain (to
receive the Holy Spirit).
37.
Seal of God and Mark of the Beast-
p.25
Today nobody
can say for sure what will be the mark of the beast, because the mark will appear only after the opening of the 6-th seal. We
do not know what antichrist's image will look like, we do know his name and number of his
name. However for sure it can not be Sunday worship, because the day of worship
can not be his image, his name, nor the number of his name. The mark of the
beast will not be a wrong day of worship of All Mighty but a worship of
another god - the antichrist.
38.The
Book of Life-
p.26
Is there
your name in the Book of Life, you will understand after reading this chapter.
39.How many years the Israelites were in Egypt?-
p.27
We need
to answer this and following questions to learn, whether or not the 7-th
millennium has come. It will help us to define, when will Jesus come.
In Egypt the Israelites were 215 Jewish years.
40.
How many years from the Exodus out of Egypt to 4-th year of Solomon's
reign?
- p.28
From the
Exodus to the 4-th year of Solomon -
591 Jewish years.
41.The application of
Jephthan
- p.28
Another
confirmation that from the Exodus to the 4-th year of Solomon -591 Jewish years.
42.Hystorical
evidences of when did the Exodus take place
– p.29
The Exodus
could take place in 1616 BC in the Hyksos government.
43.When
will Jesus return? - p.30
Jesus
will come in Sabbath millennium before the Jubilee year. Has the
Sabbath millennium already began? How long to the Jesus' coming?
44.What
happens when we die?-
p.31
A
man was created by God in His own image (spiritual image), i.e. man received the spiritual image -
the soul. When all creatures have flesh + breath of life (spirit of life,
or breath of spirit of life), humans besides that have soul (spirit). The wrong
teachings about the soul as flesh, the soul sleep theory were based on the
incorrect translations of the following words: spirit,
breath, soul,
Sheol, Hades, pit, abyss, gehenna, grave and others. After the death
of the body souls go either to heaven or hell.
The false belief that there is no
hell, or al least not yet, is rooted in incorrect translation also. Hell, as the
deep underground place, where the prison of fallen angels is, exists from the
time of Flood. After death souls of all unrepented sinners go there.
At the Second coming
the saints will be resurrected in spiritual bodies, as Jesus has; the righteous
will be resurrected 1000 years later, they will have perfect physical bodies as Adam and
Eve had.
45. To Understand God's
Plan - p.32
Why
had Jesus spend 30 years for growing up instead of just come down from
heaven and teach people? Why was it necessary for Jesus to be born from
woman?
Why
was He born not in Nazareth, where Mary and Joseph lived, but in
Bethlehem, where they came to for census just for a couple days?
Why wasn’t He thrown to wild beasts, wasn’t hung up, or beheaded?
Why it was necessary for Him to be crucified on wooden cross?
Why
He had to die in Jerusalem?
What is so unique about Jerusalem? Why had no one city in the world too
many military attacks, as this old city
had?
What
is unique about the promised land, if there is something unique?
Why
did God order to kill everyone, who lived on the promised land, when He
gave this land back into the hands of Israel?
Why
was there Flood?
Why
is there always Israeli-Arabian conflict in Near East?
Why
is the sacred place of the Jews considered as sacred place of Muslims?
Why
are the Jews the unique nation, which always was under oppressions
irrespective of the country where they lived?
46. To
Adventists: Food
for Thoughts -
p.33
Who needs
the wrong teachings?
47. The Last question - p.34
The proof the aliens from other galaxies are the ancient demons who have accepted modern shapes. They are ready to appear to people as our saviors in very soon future. They are the part of the last and greatest Satan's deception of humanity.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34
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