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Are We On The Cusp Of Great Tribulation

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Hello, everybody, and welcome to today's episode of Walk With Me. I am your host, JJ. We are back. Thank you so much for walking with us today and engaging with this podcast. Thank you for liking and sharing. And uh love each and every one of you. Thank you so much for squisit creations and true bars lyricists for your help. True bars is doing did the uh intro and the outro and still trying to convince um true bars. I'm sorry, Squisite Creations to do more tumblers. I know she's been very busy, but uh she's still a sponsor, and we still working on some other sponsors. Thank big thank you for iHeartRadio uh for helping us post and and keep everything going. Thank you all so much. Thank you all so much. Uh big shout out to each and every one of you new listeners. If you're joining us today, this is our first time. We are currently in I'm in the middle of answering some questions about what the end time is. Um, and that brings up a very important point. I absolutely do love biblical questions. Biblical debates, not so much, but biblical questions, yes. Um, because people sometimes people just debate, just to debate, and you you're you're debating theology rather than calling out sin and or or trying to get to heaven. If you if this is what you're here for, you are in the right place. You're here to just um squabble that this is not the podcast for you. I'm sorry to say it that way. I do welcome everybody, I thank everybody for being here, and I love everybody, uh, but there is some some sort of thing that's going on lately where you know you people just want to debate. And I I get that. You've been taught a certain way, and then the Bible says a certain thing, and then you're trying to figure out which way to go. I'm here for that. If you do have biblical questions or anything like that, please feel free. Drop me a line at walk with me bible study at gmail, walk with me bible study at gmail. Um, I am really trying to get better at checking my YouTube page, uh, which is JJ the Apostolic on YouTube. Um, and I will be going back maybe once a week or so and checking to make sure if there's any questions or something like that, because this is where a lot of the best studies come from, is when people ask questions. Um, and I do love questions, but that also means that brings me to another very important part of uh the rule of this podcast. For the sake of time, we always um I may give you one or two verses, but I need you to do this rule read a verse or two above, a verse or two below, or preferably the whole chapter because context is key. And the reason why I say this is because a lot of times we do this. We take a verse and we take it out of context and we twist it to what we want it to say, and then when we read it in context, it doesn't really make sense. It it sort of seems like a like a hot dog in the middle of the street. It makes no sense if it doesn't belong there. So the context is key for everything when it comes to the Bible because God does not just throw random things out there. I mean, he will with prophecies, but uh a lot of the times, even the prophecies will come in context uh with what he's talking about, and this is what we're talking about today. So, uh that being said, we're gonna get into today's lesson. We're still working on end times because we got I had a bunch of questions, and one in one question in particular uh was in regards to this whole rapture craze that social media pushed a couple months ago. So, yes, I am still answering those questions, but that's okay. Um, if you have like simple questions, go ahead and send them to me. There is no such thing as a good question or a bad question, but that being said, I don't want to end up spending the rest of my time yapping about questions. But I love each and every one of you. Um, but we are going to focus now because I I want to get through this one before the end of the year. Um we're we're talking about just a brief recap. This is your first or second episode uh of this, recapping the end times, and we're pointing out how the book of Daniel and the book of Revelation are sister books when it comes to end times and what it's talking about. And and a lot of things that Daniel will talk about, Daniel is talking about them in the to in the future, whereas Revelation is John seeing it as it had already happened. And again, this is it kind of show it kind of points out the the timeless aspect of God, how God can be out of time, outside of what our perception of time is. Uh, and John will will talk about things that are happened in the past. Well, in from his perspective, it happened in the past, but then it goes to the future, where Daniel's perspective is almost primarily to the future. All right, so today we are going to talk about Daniel chapter 12. Because Daniel chapter 12 really gets into the nuts and bolts of some things that are going to happen, that are going to happen, all right. These things haven't happened yet, so they are going to. Uh, before we get started, I want to draw your attention though to Matthew 24, 21. Okay, because even though we we make up terms, we make up terms like rapture and and tribulation and the great tribulation, and and we we make up things that are not exactly denoted in the Bible, there are a lot of terms that refer to um things in the Bible, right? And we do it just for brevity's sake. The word Bible isn't even in the Bible, so we call it the word of God in the Bible. So just so we are clear on that, I got a couple questions on that, and it was just kind of a little funny that we that somebody said that. Um, so Matthew 24, 21, for then shall a great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, know, nor ever shall be. Now, we're gonna talk about what that great tribulation is. Now, there are a lot of couple schools of thought. I of this school of thought where there's going is jump going to be divided into two sections. You're gonna have the tribulation and then the great tribulation. Now, I don't don't ask me when it starts, because I'm of the impression that it's going to start um when the rapture happens. Some people think the rap is the rapture uh is gonna happen, um, it's going to take place in the middle and start the great tribulation rather than the regular tribulation. So we're gonna get into that, but I don't want to get too far ahead on myself. All right, so in uh Daniel chapter 12, verse 1, there's going to be a promise of Jews at that time thy people shall be delivered. Now he's now at that time he's only talking about the Jews at that time, because the book of Daniel was to be remaining a secret book until verse 9. Um, and at that the time is that um only during the last um hundred years has this prophecy been understood as clear and um as as definitive as it has been. Like sometimes, like for instance, a lot of times people thought, oh well, the tribulation is here because of World War II. Um maybe, but some things just wasn't quite fitting. Uh oh, this is the great Armageddon when they talk about World War I. Yeah, but some things just didn't quite fit. But just now, in the last hundred years, a lot of things are really starting to fall into place. And again, I'm this is not a prediction channel. I am not gonna say November 15, 2026 is gonna be rapture. No, I have no idea because no one knows when that's going to be, but we are given signs. So, what are those signs? One, verse four talks about an increase in travel and speed in travel. That reads, and I'm gonna read from the New Living Translation. I I do like the King, I actually my favorite is the uh King James Version, but I do for illustrative purposes, like to read from the New Living Translation. It's not a word-for-word translation, but it's more of an ideological translation. But you, Daniel, shall keep this prophecy a secret, sealed up in the book to the time of the end where many will rush here and there, and knowledge will increase. Now that generally talks about um an ability to travel. Would it shock you to know that 400 million passengers are just on air route in the annual setting? 455, 485 million passengers. So people are gonna be in a rush to get where they're going. People are gonna have, I gotta be over here for breakfast and a meeting in another city at lunch, and and and then it talks about in the same verse, knowledge is going to be increasing, increasing, and it's gonna be increasing at a ratio that is um exponential to the population explosion. In other words, people are not gonna get smart because it's more people, people are gonna get smarter because a lot of the knowledge is going to be increased and it may lead to population fluctuation. Now, that's gonna be another certain time. Now, um, the the other thing, verse 10, and here's where we really want to get down to verse 10. Many will be purified, cleansed, and refined by these trials, but the wicked will continue in their wickedness, and none of them will understand. Only those who are wise will know what it means. This specifically speaks to um knowledge increasing, but it also talks about wickedness. The wicked people shall do more wicked and not understand where that they're being wicked. Let's get it straight. There's always been sin. Ever since uh Eve and Adam ate that apple, Eve was deceived, but Adam was not. So I just want to kill that right there. Adam was not deceived, he chose to do it. There was they're in life for sin. So ever since then, there's been sin. God came and he wiped everybody out with the flood, didn't remove the sin from the world because as soon as they came out, there was sin again. So um, and and never, even from then until a few years ago, there's never been um a corruption or perversion as bad as it's been in the current time, and I hate to say it, but things that were kind of in the dark were really brought out and um really promoted since for the last five or six years, and this is a clear contrast between light and darkness, it's gonna be a contrast between delusion and understanding, it's gonna be a contrast between wickedness and righteousness. So um these verses here in Daniel chapter 12 gives us a very clear sign that we are on the verge of beginning this end time. So, what I want you to do is is read uh verse 7. Daniel 12, verse 7. And we're gonna pretty much stay in Daniel 7 today. The man dressed in linen who was standing above the river, raised both his hands towards heaven and took a solemn oath by the one who lives forever. Remember, I'm still reading from the New Living Translation, says it will go on for a time, times, and half a time. When the shattering of the holy people has finally come to an end, all these things will have happened. So we're talking about a time, times, and a half. Now, what does that mean? Now, generally speaking, when it comes to um talking about a time, they're talking about a measure of time, and the most um the most accurate measure of time has generally been the year revolution around the sun. So when you talk about a time, you're talking about a year. All right, so a year, and remember our jubilees are built on that, the dispensations are built on that. So a year is a time. You have a time, you have times, which is two, and then a half a time. So you have one plus two plus a half, you have three and a half. So now this is this is three and one half years or forty-two months. Now, what is so specific about 42 months? In Revelation 11 and 3, we find mentioned 1260 days, which is the last half of the tribulation period, which closes with the Battle of Armageddon. This is so somewhere in the now we have to backtrack the counting because the battle of Armageddon uh occurs after 1260 days. Before that, um it and that was also three and a half period, three and a half years, and that should bring us to the uh delineation between tribulation and great tribulation. Now, I have seen where it says an extra 30 days is entered, and that extra 30 days could easily refer to the length of the battle because the battle of Armageddon may last a full month because Jesus is going to appear, and then all the resistance is going to cease. So it may be that that that difference between 1260 and 1290 that you've read, uh, it could be that that battle is going to last for 30 days, and then Jesus comes and and you know, pretty much wipes everything up. Now, some have thought that it was a period of grace, but I kind of doubt it. Um, because it would be kind of weird to have 30 days of grace. Now, I'm not saying it's impossible. Again, I'm um I'm just a guy with the Bible. So, and I'm not your pastor. You probably want to ask your pastor, but when people say it's a 30-day grace period, I'm not really I'm not really liking that explanation because it just doesn't seem to go with um the way the the flow of the the prophecy went. Now in verse 12 though, it does mention 1335. So in verse 12, as for you, I'm sorry, and blessed who wait and remain to the end of the 1335 days. Now, again, I'm still reading from New Living Translation. I prefer King James, but I do like New Living Translation now. So that extra 45 days, uh, from 1290 in verse 11 to uh 1335 in verse 12, it I I believe that it has the is a time necessary that Jesus is going to take to establish his kingdom following the Battle of Armageddon. So, at any rate, if you can survive to that time and that time has come to pass, and you reach that 1335 days after the start of the tribulation, you're blessed with God. And the reason why I say that is because we have reason to believe, and we're gonna be doing some numbers here eventually, that from the start of the tribulation to the end of the tribulation, you only have about a one in four chance of survival. And I hate that that sounds that sounds crazy. One in four, and I've heard people say it's as high as maybe one in seven, which means if you know fractions, that means a little smaller odds of survival. So now when we talk about bringing that into revelation, you gotta figure out what that word means. Revelation from the Latin revelation, which means to reveal or unveil. Now, that title was first given to the book, um, this book Revelation, and what they call the Latin Vulgate. The Greek title for this same book is called Apocalypse, and that's taken from uh Greek word apocalypsis, which means revelation is the revealing of something previously hidden, which is removing a veil from a statue or a picture. So we've been talking about Daniel, and I want to go ahead and slide into Revelation now because I just want to keep it flowing. Now, remember that the writer was given this book to John. So Jesus Christ is the true author of Revelation, instructed the apostle John to write everything that he saw. So, and this is John, the beloved disciple and son of Zebedee, which had previously written the gospels and three of the letters to the churches, first, second, and third, John. Right now, it's believed that this book was some written sometime around 95, 96 AD. Um, and there was a huge uh persecution of the Christian church of the Domitians. Uh, and by this time, John was the only apostle who was still living, and he was really, really old. Um, and he had been banished to this island called the Isle of Patmos. And Patmos was a very small rocky island, and it was about 20 miles off the coast of Asia near the Asian Sea. If you get a globe or a map, a Google map and see exactly where it is. Now, this island is about eight miles long, and its widest point is about six miles. So, um, so here John is pretty much in prison. He's shut off in the rest of the world, he can't get back, but he entered the communion with God and was commanded to write this down. Now, this command to write was repeated a lot of times in the book of Revelation. What you see, write in the book, uh, Revelation 1 and 11. Write the things that which you have seen, Revelation 1 and 19. Write, blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, Revelation 14, 13. Write, blessed are they which are called, Revelation 19, 9. So, so John, John had a little bit of an issue where, and Jesus was very, very clear on write this down, write this down, write this down. He kept saying, write this down, and John kept writing it down. So in Revelation 2 and 3, though, first thing John had to do was write the church, write a letter to each one of the seven churches. Now, not only was he commanded to write, and I just want to hold on for a second right here, because not only was he commanded to write, um, God told him exactly how to word it. And this kind of lets us know that while he was writing to specific churches in that day, the good thing about Revelation and the bit the way it was. The way Jesus worded it is that um this day, these days, we don't have to go to a church in Philadelphia to read the letter that John wrote. Because this these are churches or types of churches that um that we that are actually in the world today, like the Laodicean church and the Philadelphian church, and and a lot of a lot of different types of church, a lot of different churches fit into um one of these seven types of churches. And it's it's amazing that we're back to that number seven. There are seven types of churches, and each one Jesus had something to say to them. Each one, hey man, listen, I I like your I like the way you worship, I like the way you do your Bible study, but you know what? You could do something better, you could be better at this, or you could do better at that, or you know what, you guys are lukewarm, and I really don't like lukewarm. I wish you was either on fire for God or just out in the world because I could work with that, but you just kind of lukewarm to the point where you feel like you stay, but you're not, and I'm talking about the layout church here, but this is the thing that John was being instructed to write by Jesus Christ. Now, in in Revelation 1:10, it states, I was in the spirit on the Lord's day. Now, some people think that the Lord's day means the first day of the week, but that's not what I don't I don't think that's what John was saying. I think he was talking about the day of the Lord, which is not Sunday. He was actually talking about um the day that the Lord returned and includes both the uh tribulation and the millennium. So, and and this is why it's very important to not just take a verse out of um, take a verse and read it and say, Okay, this is what that one verse means, and then um make a whole doctrine of it. And we'll talk about that because we're getting closer to running out of time already. Wow, it's just crazy. Um, but yes, he was not talking about Sunday because John was caught up in the spirit, and when you're in the spirit, a lot of times we have we've seen uh with great prophets in the past, you kind of lose track of time. Like I've seen people talking in tongues for hours, hours, and then get up like nothing happened. Like they're they're not stored, they're not that they're not forced, that they just get up like nothing happened. I mean, of course, their lives are immediately irreversibly changed, but you don't if you spend 20 minutes yelling at a football game, and I know I'm off on a tangent here, spend 20 minutes yelling at a football game, your voice is forced the next day. I have seen people worship it in speaking tongues at the top of their lungs, and the next day, voice just as fine, and and that lets you know there's a spiritual component there. So a when we talk about Revelation, we talk about Daniel. I wanted to make sure we wrapped up Daniel, but we're gonna come back today, okay? But when we talk about Revelation, it is a book purely of prophecy. Blessed he that read it, and they understand the words of this prophecy, Revelation 1 and 3. In the days of their prophecy of Revelation 11:6. For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy, Revelation 19:10. Blessed is he that keep the sayings of this prophecy of this book, Revelation 22, 7. Now remember what I kept saying, which we're giving these scriptures uh do for the sake of time, but I I implore you to make notes and go back and read to these chapters. Uh seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book, Revelation 22, 10. Where's the prophecies of this book? 2218, 2219, on and on and on. It tells us the same way that Jesus kept saying to John, write this down, write this down, write this down. He's also saying, This book is a prophecy. This book is a prophecy. This book is a prophecy. Okay, and it's important that we understand that because a lot of times uh prophecy would be an imagery that we may not understand, at least not until it happens. So, and and we're gonna next week we're gonna talk about what's what's called some of these interpretations that we're talking about, and you're gonna really get into some nitty-gritty on what these prophecies really mean. But I I wanted to, I know we just dropped a lot of scripture here, so I really want to end it here, but I want you walkers to go back, pause, and that's why we have a YouTube channel, that's why we uh these these podcasts are archived, even on the social media site. Go back, take these notes down, and go back and read the Bible with take notes, take notes, leave because I I don't want um some of the hardest thing in the world watching people um kind of follow people who didn't know what they were talking about, but they knew less. They say the blind leading the blind, they both fall into dead. And this happened, this will happen, this will continue to happen, and I don't want any uh anything like that to happen to any of you. I I don't care if you agree with me or not, I don't want it to happen to any of you. So I'm I'm just begging you to take notes, read your Bible, um, and hey, ask questions. Ask questions. And if I don't know the answer, I'll tell you I don't know. I'm not saying I know everything, uh, but I will tell you. Um, you know what? You know what? Let me let me pray about it and see if I uh can find out an answer or something. You can email those questions or comments to walk with me at Bible Study at Gmail. Walk with me at Bible Study at Gmail. Um we've reached the end of our time. I know we've covered a lot, but I want just want to make sure that you guys are aware that I believe that we have not started the Great Tribulation yet, but we are right on the cusp of it. That's my opinion, based on some things that I'm seeing. And you see those things so much more as you see that they approach you. Um we gotta get we gotta get serious about this living for God. Okay. I love each and every one of you. Thank you all so much for liking, sharing, commenting. Um, if you're on the social media site, uh Facebook, uh yeah, I do try to make sure I comment on those. But I love each and every one of you. See y'all next week. Bye-bye. And God bless you.