End Time Events

The Bible foretells a second, different kind of famine when the “night”—final terrible darkness—will have come and, the Bible says, “no man can work” (John 9:4). This includes the Church’s Work of (1) announcing God’s coming kingdom and (2) warning the world’s greatest nations before special punishment comes!The prophet Amos recorded a stunning prophecy. He wrote, “The days come, says the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD ” (8:11). How do the masses react? “They shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it” (vs. 12). This will be a shocking moment for frantic millions who can no longer hear what God has been declaring through His Church. The verse implies these vast millions will have grown accustomed to hearing God’s Word. Do not miss this! These Personals will not continue forever!Once God’s open door to His Church is closed, the famine of hearing God’s Word will suddenly settle over all nations. The fulfillment of Matthew 24:14 and Ezekiel 33:7-9 will be finished! May God help you heed NOW!The same day God’s Work ends, His people are taken from harm’s way and gathered for flight to a designated Place of Safety.Jesus’ admonition is: “Watch you therefore, and pray always, that you may be accounted worthy to ESCAPE all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man” (Luke 21:36). The phrase “all these things” means all end-time events—those just before Christ’s Return. Remember, Jesus said, “As a snare shall it [these things] come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth” (vs. 35). But God’s purpose is that some be spared—that they ESCAPE—global calamity.The arrival of this critical moment is something that will only be known to those in God’s one, undivided Church. His people will plainly understand. Luke 17:30-37 introduces what the Church is awaiting, and how it escapes. No rapture is coming!Daniel prefixes the 1,335-day period with “blessed is he that waits” (12:12). This is the specific time for which the Church has patiently waited to be “taken” to safety (Matt. 24:13; 10:22; Luke 21:19; Rev. 14:12). Realize you can escape what lies ahead. You need not fear—if you do exactly what God instructs.

We are now ready to examine two prophecies occurring in and around Jerusalem. The next two events are closely related. Follow carefully. The first, the abomination of desolation, is introduced in Daniel. Notice: “From the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days” (Dan. 12:11). So then, 45 days after the Church is taken, at 1,290 days before Jesus returns, this “abomination” appears.

Here is Jesus’ first clue about this: “When you shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is [near]” (Luke 21:20). If something is near, it has not happened yet. The armies in fact carry this out 30 days later.

Jesus reveals in Matthew the related event to look for beside armies around Jerusalem. Let’s read: “When you therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, whoso reads, let him understand” (24:15). Mark adds this: “When you shall see the abomination of desolation…standing where it ought not [meaning, in the holy place]” (13:14). This involves some kind of “standing” abomination “desolating the holy place.”

Now, what exactly is this holy place? The context makes plain that it is not figurative, but refers to a literal place—a religious site. Recognize, however, that this place cannot be a pagan religious site. It must be a location that God considers, or once considered, holy, with something foreign and blasphemous put there. History and other scriptures outside the gospels reveal this will be a statue placed inside an at least partially rebuilt Temple in Jerusalem.

Understand. For the twice-daily sacrifices (morning and evening)—outlined in the Old Testament (Ex. 29:39-42; Num. 28:4-6)—to stop, they must first be restarted. There must come at least a temporary restoration of these Old Covenant sacrifices in Jerusalem at the Temple Mount under the direction of a restored priesthood. While a full temple is not needed, something must be built.

When Jerusalem is surrounded by armies, and the False Prophet and Beast put an idolatrous statue at the site of the re-established sacrifices, the abomination will officially “stand in the holy place”!

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