-Mark
16:15.Was
this scripture fulfilled in the days of the original disciples?
-2Peter
3:7 How can I figure out this scripture?
The Earth is for learning
the lesson of 'you reap what you have sown',
hopefully coming to the conclusion
that without love in the world, it's finished.
2Peter 3:7 "But the heavens
and the Earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved
unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of unGodly men."
Notice the verse says things
are kept 'in store', that is, kept in readiness, kept in preparation and
that what is kept in store is reserved for a reason and a season; reason
being, against these happenings, that is, they may not be needed to happen
and that because of unGodly men changing, thanks to the growing in Christ
of others who do pray and
meditate:.Ephesians
4:15; 1Peter 2:2; 2Peter
3:18.
When they do change, the
things kept in store need not be used. And that's better for them, because
they are on their way to a reward, instead
on heading toward the solution for those
who just can't make themselves be of a mind toward change from their
unGodly ways, which are ways of hurt toward self and toward others. That's
the timeline they have chosen. There are other and better
timelines.
That's why life on Earth
is a 'pressure cooker',
drilling
one's mental capacities
to analyze just
what it is that is causing things in life that we may not like and also
things we do like. We learn. We change.
-2Peter
3:8 Does this mean God's plan is a 7000 year plan? If to God."one
day is a like a thousand years". One year
has 13, 4 week periods.(we
call months), equaling
364 days. So 364,000 years referred to here.(364
x 1000= 364,000).
But the scripture also tells
us."and.(about
the word 'and').a
thousand years as one day". So one day with
God is like 364,000 years, yet with one year equivalent
to one day, is it then 364,000 years times one thousand days.(of
the 'day for a year', year for a day' principle.-.364,000
x 1000= 364,000,000), which brings
us to 364 million years?).Hmm!
What it's emphasizing here
is that with God, time is only needed
for the experiences of humanity, otherwise
it is non existent.
Creator's plan is a plan
encompassing
all physical ages and into eternity.
Comprised with.Barnes
Notes.on."last
days": The last days refer to the final dispensation
or, in this dispensation under which the affairs of the world will be wound
up. Phrases similar to this occur frequently in the Scriptures. They do
not imply that the world was soon coming to an end, but that the 'last
days' was the last dispensation, the last period of the world. There had
been the patriarchal
period, the period under the law, the
prophets, time
of the Messiah and together these were the times which lead to the
closing of humanity's time on the Earth:.1Corinthians
2:9.
God is in no hurry to complete
His plan for man, but complete
it He will:.Romans
9:28 "For he will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness.(what
is 'righteousness'?), because a
short work will the Lord make upon the Earth."
Isaiah
2:2 "And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain
of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains and
shall be exalted above the hills and all nations shall flow unto it.".Micah
4:1 also mentions this time of peace, at last. And.Isaiah
9:7 "Of the increase of his government and peace there shall
be no end upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom, to order it and
to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for
ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this."
The phrase "the last days"
appears in many scriptures. What
is its full meaning?
What
about the 'day for a year' principle?
Eternity is the invisible
realm
of the Infinite One,
a realm transcending
both space and time,
a
kingdom within that all can enter who have faith:.Hebrews
11:6.
The Creator
is
eternity.(what
does that mean?). In eternity there is no time as there is for us of the
human experience, no past, no future, just the present where all
is instant. With eternity everything happens with no time lag. Eternity
just is and always is. There are those
1)
2)
beyond the physical who inhabit eternity:.Isaiah
57:15.
"You are scientific proof
of life after death.(and/or
continuance of life, that is, never
dying in the physical).because
your body is constantly renewing itself."....Deepak
Chopra.
It is in this invisible realm
where all formative potential
resides, where all 'matter
of course' things of faith come from, that we often mistakenly call
'miracles' because we are so far from faith. Hey, most do not even know
the meanings of the words
faith and belief and the differences between them.
With the Infinite One, time
is not as.we.perceive
it to be:
Psalms 90:4. This is
because Creator-God lives in the eternity that is Him and really, so
do we. It's just that we are in a physical stage of existence now for
learning
things as we grow
up in the
God family.
Peter
is saying here that Creator-God is eternal and looks at the passing of
time not as we humans do. God lives
in eternal life, something we don't fully comprehend
from the physical point
of view:.1Corinthians
13:12.
The second part of your question
should be answered by the answer to the first part.
-Malachi
4:5 When is this."great
and dreadful time"?
Jerusalem became 'a
furnace of fire' and the age of Judaism came to a close in 'the great
and dreadful day of the Lord'.
When the 'second
Elijah'.(Emmanuel).came,
He.(Emmanuel).predicted
the destruction of Jerusalem. He was sad about this:.Matthew
23:37.
Matthew
24:15 What is the."abomination
that causes desolation"?
The.Four
Fold Gospel.notes
on 'abomination that caused desolation':."Matthew
uses the term."holy
place".to designate
the holy territory round about the Holy City.(Jerusalem
in 70 A.D.).and
that the combined expression of Matthew and Mark
signifies the investiture.(taking
over).of the
city by the Roman
armies and is equivalent to the plainer statement made by Luke.(who
was Luke? and what was it he said on this?.Luke
21:20).
"The Roman armies were fittingly
called the abomination of desolation.(Luke
21:20).because,
being heathen
armies, they were an abomination
to the Jews back then.(Acts
10:28).and
because they brought desolation upon the country. The sight of them, therefore,
became the appointed sign for
Christians
to quit the city."
In the book of Daniel, Daniel
also talks about an abomination:.Daniel
11:31 "And arms shall stand on his part and they shall pollute the
sanctuary of strength and shall take away the daily sacrifice and they
shall place the abomination that makes desolate."
In this section of Daniel's
prophecies which is generally interpreted as referring to the
fearful calamities that were to fall on the Jews in the time of
Antiochus
Epiphanes, long before the
70 A.D. destruction, it is understood that historically, Antiochus
Epiphanes caused an altar to be erected on the altar of burnt offering,
on which sacrifices were offered to Jupiter Olympus.(the
supreme
God of the heathen
Greeks and Romans:.Acts
19:35). This was the abomination of the desolation of Jerusalem, the
forerunner
of the destruction of Jerusalem by Roman
armies in 70 A.D.
The same language
is employed in.Daniel
9:27.
See.Matthew
24:13-31; Luke 21:20-22.
The abomination standing
in the holy place.(Matthew
24:15;
Mark 13:14).probably.refers
to the image crowned standards which the Romans set up at the east gate
of the temple in 70 A.D. and to which they paid idolatrous honors.
The Roman army paid great
attention to and had adoration for all that the mighty empire of Rome meant
to them. To many of them, there were no other Gods but the might of Rome.
The ensigns.(marks
of worship.like
banners, badges, flags, etc.).of
Roman domination were an 'abomination' to the Jews, the."abomination
of desolation". These standards, rising over
the site of the temple were a sign that the holy place had fallen under
the idolatrous Romans. And such as it should be. Why?