Matthew 5:17-20
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets:
I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass,
one jot or one tittle shall in
no wise pass from the law,
till all be fulfilled
Whosoever therefore shall break one of these
least commandments,
and shall teach men so,
he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven:
but whosoever shall
do and teach them,
the same shall be called
great in the kingdom of heaven.
For I say unto you,
That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness
of the scribes and Pharisees,
ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
1 John 2:3-7
And hereby we do
know
that we know him,
if we keep his commandments.
He that saith, I know him,
and keepeth
not his commandments,
is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
But whoso keepeth his word,
in him verily
is the
love of God perfected:
hereby know we that we
are in him.
He that saith he abideth
in him ought himself also so to walk,
even as he walked.
Brethren, I write no
new commandment unto you,
but an old commandment
which ye had from the beginning.
The old commandment
IS THE WORD
which ye have
HEARD
from the BEGINNING
2 Timothy 3:16-17 (KJV)
all scripture is given by inspiration of God,
and is
profitable for doctrine,
for reproof, for correction,
for instruction in righteousness:
That the man of God
may be Perfect,
thoroughly Furnished
unto
all good works.
Psalm 119:89
For ever, O Lord,
thy
WORD is settled in heaven.
Deuteronomy 20:1-4
"When you go out
to battle against your enemies
and
see horses and chariots
and people more numerous
than you,
do not be afraid of them;
for the Lord-your God,
who brought you up
from the
land of Egypt, is with you.
When you are approaching the battle,
the priest shall
come near and speak to the people.
He shall say to them,
‘Hear, O Israel,
you are approaching the
battle
against your enemies
today
Do not be fainthearted
Do not be afraid, or panic,
or
tremble before them
for the
Lord YOUR God
IS the ONE
who goes WITH YOU
to fight FOR YOU
against your enemies,
To SAVE You
MESSIAH
As
He ROARS
against His foes,
another of
His
NAMES
is prominent:
The
WORD of GOD
This TITLE
CLEARLY IDENTIFIES
the
RIDER
on a
white horse
here as Jesus,
who came to
Earth
the first time as
GOD in the FLESH
but was rejected by the
world
(John 1:1–2, 10–11, 14).
MY GRACE
is
Sufficient for You,
for
My POWER
is
PERFECTED in weakness.”
Most gladly, therefore,
I WILL
rather boast
about my weaknesses,
so that the
Power of CHRIST
may
Dwell in Mew
Therefore I AM WELL
content with weaknesses,
with insults,
with distresses,
with
persecutions,
with
difficulties,
for
CHRISTS SAKE
for
WHEN I AM WEAK...
THEN,
I AM STRONG
The
Two Witnesses
Moses and Elijah,
The
Law and Prophets
will come back
physically to EARTH
from
God in
HEAVEN to Jerusalem
Israel
to
Preach and evangelize
with a
Renewed HOPE
to Restore
people back to God
The World will
Soon
experience again
Moses and Elijah
heralding the
Kingdom of God in
Christ
to
bring change on earth
This belief is expressed in
Shabbat
mey-eyn olam ha-ba
as a sampler of the
world to come
Daily song sang about Elijah herald
the
Messiah
as
Havdalah brings
the
Shabbat to a close.
The doors are left opened
for
Moses and Elijah
late in the
Pesach
Seder to
express hope
God’s Sovereignty
to be
established Soon on earth.
Elijah
is regarded as one of
Israel’s greatest
Prophets
He modified weather patterns
over Israel for years in a row,
RAISED
the dead,
Called down
FIRE
from heaven multiple times,
and
was taken off to Heaven
in a
CHARIOT by whirlwind,
skipping death.
In fact, at
Jesus’s transfiguration,
“there
appeared before them
Elijah and Moses,
who were talking with
Jesus
witnessed by disciples
in Mark 9:4.
God
Chose to show
Jesus’s
TRUE
NATURE
as the
Son of God
at the
transfiguration to
the two
Old Testament
PROPHETS
who
showed up
Moses,
widely regarded as one of the greatest
of the
Old Testament joined Elijah.
In addition, the
Jewish
Passover Meal
to this day features
place set for Elijah in hope of
his return.
Israel is waiting for
Moses and Elijah
to return
in bodily form as
transfiguration
to
Preach Salvation before
the
SECOND RETURN
of
Jesus
HIGHLY expected.
We await Jesus’s return
as the
MESSIAH
at the]
End of the Age
preceded by
Moses and Elijah’s
Return in
The
Great Tribulation
By
declaring MESSIAH
is close
urges all to pray for
Coming of Messiah
Believers to do things possible
to hasten
Coming of Messiah,
increase
Godly love
The Bible teaches
all individual human being
must live as if
all are
individually responsible
each day
to
bring about
Messianic Age
The words based on
prophet Habakkuk 2:3 says
Jesus if tarry continue to wait
for Him,
Moses and Elijah soon on earth
In one of his
visions,
the
prophet Daniel sees a “little horn”
that grows
out of a terrible beast (Daniel 7:8).
The emergence of the
little horn,
its unusual form,
and its
behavior cause
Daniel to wonder greatly
Fortunately for him and for us,
the
vision is explained
Before we examine the little horn, we’ll take
a quick look at the
whole of Daniel’s vision
The prophet sees four beasts
(Daniel 7:1–7)
representing four kingdoms
(verse 17).
The first three beasts represent
Babylon, Medo-Persia, and Greece
The fourth and final beast that Daniel
sees
is the Most Dreadful
—“terrifying and frightening
and
very powerful”
(Daniel 7:7).
This fourth beast has “bronze claws” (verse 19)
and “large iron teeth”
with which it annihilates its prey (verse 7).
Daniel sees
that the terrible beast has ten horns.
As he ponders
the
meaning of the horns,
a little horn begins to
GROW
from the
midst of the ten
This little Horn
is quite
unusual
As it emerges,
three
of the original horns
are
Plucked out
by
The Roots
Daniel sees that
the little horn
has “eyes like the eyes of a
human being
and a
mouth that spoke boastfully”
(Daniel 7:8)
That is the end of the little horn.
Daniel is troubled by the vision of the beast and the little horn,
and he asks specifically about it (Daniel 7:19).
An angel explains:
the beast’s ten horns are ten kings
who will arise from that kingdom (verse 24).
A horn in the
Bible
is often a symbol
of
strength and authority
(see Psalm 89:24 and 132:17).
The little,
boastful horn with a human mouth
and
eyes represents a specific king;
at his rise to power, three
of the original kings
will fall.
This evil king pictured as the little horn
“will speak against the
Most High and oppress his holy people”
Daniel 7:25
He will seek to change times and laws,
and he will exert oppressive power over God’s people
for three and a half years (verse 25)
The fourth beast that Daniel saw was the
Roman Empire,
the world kingdom that would arise after Greece.
The little horn that Daniel saw is a
world leader especially noted for his
blasphemies and the scope of his power.
The little horn emerges from the fourth beast,
a fact that suggests
that, in the end times, there
will be a “revival” of the old Roman Empire.
This restoration, whatever form it takes, will feature a coalition of ten world leaders. The Antichrist will make his move to the top at the expense of three of those leaders, and he will eventually wield global authority. A true tyrant, the Antichrist will seek to control every aspect of life (see Revelation 13:16–17)
The little horn of Daniel 7
is the same as the
first beast of Revelation 13.
The beast in Revelation also has ten horns.
And, like the
little horn of Daniel’s fourth beast,
John’s beast
“was given a mouth
to utter proud words and blasphemies. . . .
It opened its mouth to blaspheme God,
and to slander his name”
(Revelation 13:5–6).
In summary, the little horn that
Daniel sees is the Antichrist, a world leader
who rises to power
from within a league of ten future kings.
This little horn will blaspheme God
and
persecute God’s people during
the tribulation,
right up until the
second coming of the Lord Jesus.
At that time, the Antichrist’s
“power will be taken away
and completely destroyed forever
” (Daniel 7:26), and
Jesus will establish
His millennial kingdom.
The reign of the Antichrist is
limited:
forty-two months,
and no more
(Revelation 13:5).
The little horn will lose his war against God.
His boastful blasphemy
and wanton violence are only temporary.
The reign of Christ
is
eternal
In Revelation 19:11–20,
a final battle occurs at
Christ’s second coming
as the
conquering
Christ defeats
the forces
of the Antichrist.
We take this to be a
description of the
Battle of Armageddon
mentioned
in Revelation 16:
“I saw heaven standing open
and there before me was a white horse,
whose rider is
called
Faithful and True
With justice he judges
and wages war.
His eyes are like blazing fire,
and on his
head are many crowns.
He has a
Name written on him that
no one
knows but he himself
He is Dressed
in a
Robe dipped in Blood,
and his Name
is the
Word of God
The armies of heaven
were
following him,
riding on white horses
and
dressed in fine linen,
white and clean
Coming out of his mouth
is a
sharp sword
with which to strike down
the nations
‘He will rule them with
an
iron scepter
He
treads the winepress
of the fury
of the
wrath of
God Almighty
On his robe and on his thigh
he has this
Name Written:
KING OF KINGS
AND
LORD OF LORDS
“And I saw an angel standing
in the sun,
who cried in a loud voice
to all the
birds flying in midair,
‘Come, gather together
for the
great supper of God,
so that you may eat the
flesh of kings,
generals, and the mighty,
of
horses and their riders,
and the flesh of all people,
free and slave,
great and small.’
“Then I saw the beast and the
Kings of the Earth
and their
Armies
gathered together
to
wage war against
the
rider on the horse
and his army
But the beast was captured, and with it the
false prophet who had
performed the signs on its behalf.
With these
signs he had deluded
those who had
received the
mark of the beast
and
worshiped its image
The two
of them were thrown alive
into the
fiery lake of burning sulfur.
The rest were killed with the sword
coming out of the
mouth of the rider on the horse,
and all the
birds gorged themselves
on their flesh.”
The exact location of Armageddon is unclear because there is no mountain called Meggido. However, since Har can also mean “hill,” the most likely location is the hill country surrounding the plain of Meggido, some sixty miles north of Jerusalem.
Throughout history, armies have fought countless battles in that region: Egyptians, Assyrians, Greeks, Romans, and Crusaders fought in Megiddo, as well as the armies of Napoleon. Megiddo was the site of battles during World War I and the Arab-Israeli War of 1948 (Weintraub, P., “Rewriting Tel Megiddo’s Violent History,” Discover, Sep 30, 2015).
In the future, the plain of Megiddo and the nearby
plain of Esdraelon will also be the
focal point
for the
battle of Armageddon.
The plain of Megiddo,
or
Armageddon,
was famous for
two great victories in
Israel’s history:
1) Barak’s victory over the Canaanites (Judges 4:15)
and
2) Gideon’s victory over the Midianites (Judges 7).
Armageddon was also the
site of
two great tragedies:
1) the death of Saul and his sons (1 Samuel 31:8)
and
2) the death of King Josiah (2 Kings 23:29–30; 2 Chronicles 35:22)
2 Chronicles 20:15
and he said,
“Listen, all Judah
and
the inhabitants of
Jerusalem
and King Jehoshaphat:
thus
says the Lord to you,
‘Do not fear or be dismayed
because
of this great multitude,
for the
battle is not yours but God’s
Psalm 18:35
You have also given
me the
shield of Your salvation,
And
Your right hand upholds me;
And Your
gentleness makes me great.
1 Corinthians 15:57
but thanks be
to God,
who gives us the victory
through our
Lord Jesus Christ
2 Corinthians 2:14
But thanks be to God, who
always leads us
in triumph in Christ,
and manifests through us the
sweet aroma of the
knowledge of Him in every place.
Deuteronomy 20:1-4
"When you go out to
battle against your enemies and
see horses and chariots
and people more numerous than you,
do not be afraid of them; for the Lord-your God,
who brought you up
from the land of Egypt,
is with you.
When you are approaching the battle,
the priest shall
come near and speak to the people.
He shall say to them,
"Hear, O Israel,
you are approaching the battle against
your enemies today.
Do not be fainthearted.
Do not be afraid,
or panic, or tremble before them,.
for the Lord your God
is the one
who goes with
you,
to
fight for you
against your enemies,
to save you.’
2 Chronicles 20:15
and he said,
"Listen, all Judah
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and
King Jehoshaphat:
thus says the Lord to you,
‘Do not fear
or be
dismayed
because of this
great multitude,
For the Battle
is NOT
Yours but God’s!
Psalm 18:35
You have also given me the shield of
Your salvation,
And Your
right hand upholds me;
And Your
gentleness makes me great.
1 Corinthians 15:57
But thanks be to God,
who gives us the
victory through
our
Lord Jesus Christ
2 Corinthians 2:14
But thanks be to
God,
who always leads us in
triumph in Christ,
and manifests through us the
sweet aroma
of the
knowledge of Him in every place.
Genesis 50:20
Verse ConceptsAs for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive.
Judges 16:24
Verse ConceptsWhen the people saw him, they praised their god, for they said,
“Our god has given our enemy into our hands,
Even the destroyer of our country,
Who has slain many of us.”
Romans 8:28
Verse ConceptsAnd we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
2 Corinthians 4:7-12But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves; we are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;read more.
2 Corinthians 12:7-10
Because of the
surpassing greatness of the revelations,
for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself,
there was given me a thorn in the flesh,
a messenger of Satan to torment me—to keep me from exalting myself!
Concerning this I implored the
Lord three times
that it might leave me.
And He has said to me,
“My grace
is sufficient for you,
for power is perfected in weakness.”
Most gladly, therefore, I will
rather boast about my weaknesses,
so that the
power of Christ may dwell in me.
Therefore I am
well content with weaknesses,
with insults,
with distresses, with persecutions,
with difficulties, for
Christ’s sake;
for when I am weak,
then I am strong.
Isaiah 44:28-45“
It is I who says of Cyrus, ‘
He is
My shepherd!
And he will perform all
My desire.’
And he
declares of Jerusalem,
‘She will be built,’
And of the temple, ‘
Your
foundation will be laid.’
Thus says the
Lord to Cyrus
His anointed,
Whom I have taken
by the
RIGHT hand,
To subdue nations before him
And to loose the loins of kings;
To open doors before him
so that gates will not be shut:
“I will go before you and make
the rough places smooth;
I will shatter the doors of bronze and
cut through their iron bars.
Isaiah 41:25
I have aroused one from
the north,
and he has come;
From the
Rising of the Sun
he will
call on
My
NAME
And he will come upon rulers as upon mortar,
Even as the
Potter
TREADS CLAY
Isaiah 45:13
“I have aroused him
IN RIGHTEOUSNESS
And I will make
ALL his WAYS smooth;
He will
BUILD My CITY
and will let
My exiles go
FREE,
Ezekiel 33:27-29
Thus you shall say to them, ‘
Thus says the Lord God,
“As I live, surely those who are in the waste places
will fall by the
sword,
and whoever is in the open field
I will give to the beasts to be devoured,
and those who
are in the strongholds and
in the
caves will die of pestilence
I will make the
land a desolation and a waste,
and the
Mountains of ISRAEL
will be desolate
so that no
one will pass through
Then THEY will KNOW
that
I AM the Lord,
Acts 2:36
Therefore let all
the
HOUSE of ISRAEL
KNOW
for
CERTAIN that God has
made Him both
Lord and Christ
this
Jesus
whom you crucified.”
Acts 3:17-18
And now, brethren,
I know that you acted
in ignorance,
just as your rulers did also.
But the things
which
God announced beforehand
by the
Mouth of all the Prophets,
that
His Christ would
Suffer,
He Has thus Fulfilled