II Thessalonians 2:5-12 (New King James Version)
⁵ Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?
⁶ And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time.
⁷ For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.
⁸ And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.
⁹ The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,
¹⁰ and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
¹¹ And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie,
¹² that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

If you read the NKJV, the translators capitalize the pronouns in verse seven clearly leading all to believe “the restrainer” is the Lord.

But is that accurate?

The King James version was based upon the highly-reliable Textus Receptus manuscripts.  The New King James, however, was not a modern English update of the KJV.  Critical changes to Scripture were made.  Although the 1982 preface to the New King James states the intent is only to take the Elizabethan language¹ and make it understandable in modern English, the translators failed to mention that changes would be made according to the Septuagint and even Jerome’s Latin Vulgate!

Other translations are noticeably different.

II Thessalonians 2:5-12 (New American Standard Bible)
⁵ Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these things?
⁶ And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed.
⁷ For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way.
⁸ Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming;
⁹ that is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders,
¹⁰ and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved.
¹¹ For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false,
¹² in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness.

So who is “the Restrainer”?  Does this help us understand who anti-Christ will be?  What is the “strong delusion”?

Often, it is assumptions that lead to biased and incorrect exegesis of Scripture.  Such is frequently an error of the Western mindset.  A Buddhist saw tells us—

If you wish to know the truth, hold no opinions.²

Daniel’s 70 Weeks

A similar confusion of pronouns can be found in an even more important passage; Daniel’s “70 Weeks”—the Prophecy of Daniel 9:24-27.

Sadly, there are no English translations that show this Prophecy in its clarity.

Daniel 9:24-27 (New International Version)
²⁴ “Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
²⁵ “Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’  It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble.
²⁶ After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing.  The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary.  The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed.
²⁷ He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’  In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering.  And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.”

In one of the most important passages of Scripture are mixed two seminal yet diametrically-opposed figures; the Anointed Messiah and the Destroyer—the anti-Messiah (although not equal in power).

The key to interpretation is found in the final verse.  The one who puts an end to the sacrifice and offering must be evil, mustn’t he?  The “covenant” must be a future, 7-year covenant, mustn’t it?

In Scripture, there are only two Covenants—the first is the Covenant between YHWH and His People given by Moses.  It was a Covenant His People could not keep [Acts 15:7-11], one that was only meant to hold them and point them toward a new Covenant [Galatians 3:19-24].  This New Covenant was radically different from the old—rather than written on tablets of stone and impossible to keep, this One would be written on the hearts of God’s People and they would keep it out of love for Him! [Jeremiah 31:31-34]

In this light a literal reading of the Prophecy produces a radically different interpretation.

Daniel 9:24-27 (Young’s Literal Translation)
²⁴ ‘Seventy weeks are determined for thy people, and for thy holy city, to shut up the transgression, and to seal up sins, and to cover iniquity, and to bring in righteousness age-during, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the holy of holies.
²⁵ And thou dost know, and dost consider wisely, from the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem till Messiah the Leader [is] seven weeks, and sixty and two weeks: the broad place hath been built again, and the rampart, even in the distress of the times.
²⁶ And after the sixty and two weeks, cut off is Messiah, and the city and the holy place are not his, the Leader who hath come doth destroy the people; and its end [is] with a flood, and till the end [is] war, determined [are] desolations.
²⁷ And he hath strengthened a covenant with many — one week, and [in] the midst of the week he causeth sacrifice and present to cease, and by the wing of abominations he is making desolate, even till the consummation, and that which is determined is poured on the desolate one.’

There are flip-flopping contrasts floating between verses 26 and 27; first Messiah arrives at the appointed time but is “cut off”.  Then, anti-Messiah comes (from the anti-Messiah people) and will destroy the Sanctuary and make desolate with a “flood” (flooding waters often are a Biblical metaphor for many people).  Contrasting again, Messiah will re-affirm the Old Covenant but only for a single “week” (7 years).  Halfway through, He will cause the sacrifice to become obsolete and impossible to continue both physically and spiritually.

John 2:13-22 (Modern English Version)
¹³ The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
¹⁴ In the temple He found those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the moneychangers sitting there.
¹⁵ When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen.  He poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables.
¹⁶ He said to those who sold doves, “Take these things away!  Do not make My Father’s house a house of merchandise!”
¹⁷ His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”
¹⁸ Then the Jews said to Him, “What sign do You show us, seeing that You do these things?”
¹⁹ Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
²⁰ Then the Jews said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?”
²¹ But He was speaking concerning the temple of His body.
²² Therefore, when He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this to them.  And they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken.

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Matthew 23:37-24:2 (Modern English Version)
³⁷ “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you, how often I would have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not!”
³⁸ “Look, your house is left to you desolate.”
³⁹ “For I tell you, you shall not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’”

Chapter 24

¹ Jesus departed from the temple and was leaving when His disciples came to show Him the temple buildings.
² Jesus answered them, “Do you not see all these things?  Truly I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another that shall not be thrown down.”

Most bizarre of all, both Messiah and anti-Messiah work together to fulfill the Prophetic Divine Will!

It was intended for Messiah to re-affirm the Old Covenant with His 7-year ministry (beginning at His Baptism by John).

Halfway through His Ministry, traitorous Jewish leaders intent on killing anyone who threatened their power, seditiously worked with real power in Judea to have the Anointed One murdered without just cause (“not for Himself”).

A short time later, the people of the coming anti-Christ devastated Jerusalem and leveled the Temple down to its last foundation stone—Romans.

Gessius Florus loved money and hated Jews.  As Roman procurator, he ruled Judea, caring little for their religious sensibilities.  When tax revenues were low, he seized silver from the temple.  As the uproar against him grew, in A.D. 66, he sent troops into Jerusalem who massacred 3,600 citizens.  Florus’s action touched off an explosive rebellion—the First Jewish Revolt—that had been sizzling for some time.

Launching the Revolt

The Jewish Revolt began—and met its bitter end—at Masada, a hunk of rock overlooking the Dead Sea.  The Romans had built a virtually impregnable fortress there.  Yet the atrocities of Florus inspired some crazy Zealots to attack Masada.  Amazingly, they won, slaughtering the Roman army there.

In Jerusalem, the temple captain signified solidarity with the revolt by stopping the daily sacrifices to Caesar.  Soon all Jerusalem was in an uproar, expelling or killing the Roman troops.  Then all Judea was in revolt; then Galilee.

Cestius Callus, the Roman governor of the region, marched from Syria with twenty thousand soldiers.  He besieged Jerusalem for six months, yet failed.  He left six thousand dead Roman soldiers, not to mention weaponry that the Jewish defenders picked up and used.

Emperor Nero then sent Vespasian, a decorated general, to quell the Judean rebellion.  Vespasian put down the opposition in Galilee, then in Transjordan, then in Idumea.  He circled in on Jerusalem.  But before the coup de grace, Nero died.  Vespasian became embroiled in a leadership struggle that concluded with the eastern armies calling for him to be emperor.  One of his first imperial acts was to appoint his son Titus to conduct the Jewish War.

Crushing the Revolt

By now, Jerusalem was isolated from the rest of the nation, and factions within the city fought over strategies of defense.  As the siege wore on, people began dying from starvation and plague.  The high priest’s wife, who once basked in luxury, scavenged for crumbs in the streets.

Meanwhile the Romans employed new war machines to hurl boulders against the city walls.  Battering rams assaulted the fortifications.  Jewish defenders fought all day and struggled to rebuild the walls at night.  Eventually the Romans broke through the outer wall, then the second wall, and finally the third wall.  Still the Jews fought, scurrying to the temple as their last line of defense.

That was the end for the valiant Jewish defenders and for the temple.  Historian Josephus claimed that Titus wanted to preserve the temple, but his soldiers were so angry at their resilient opponents that they burned it.  The remaining Jews were slaughtered or sold as slaves.

The Zealot band that took Masada held it for at least three more years.  When the Romans finally built their siege ramp and invaded the mountain fortress, they found the defenders dead—they had committed suicide to avoid being captured by foreigners.

Results of the Revolt

The Jewish Revolt marked the end of the Jewish state until modern times.  The destruction of the temple also signified a change in the Jews’ worship…³

Confirmed

Understanding the Romans as the people of the anti-Christ is the key to unlocking the proper understanding of these passages.  The Romans would later become “Holy Romans”, mutating just as Daniel predicted into a Beast very different from the three previous Beasts (empires) given to both Daniel and Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar.

Daniel 7:1-8 (Modern English Version)
¹ In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his mind while on his bed.  Then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.
² Daniel spoke and said: I saw in my vision by night the four winds of the heaven striving upon the Mediterranean Sea.
³ Four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse from one another.
⁴ The first was like a lion and had eagle’s wings.  I watched until its wings were plucked and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand on the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it.
⁵ Another beast appeared, a second, like a bear, and it raised itself up on one side, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth.  And they said to it, “Arise, devour much flesh.”
⁶ After this I looked and there was another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a fowl.  The beast also had four heads.  And dominion was given to it.
⁷ After this I saw in the visions at night a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and exceedingly strong.  And it had great iron teeth.  It devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the rest with its feet.  And it was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.
⁸ I considered the horns, when there came up among them another little horn before whom three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots.  And there, in this horn, were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.

This Fourth and Final Beast was unlike the previous three because she would control in secret.  This way, she would spread tendrils across civilization.

Now, instead of enforcing her will by posting soldiers on every street corner, she would co-opt the soldiers and officials of each nation she conquered and they would do her will in secret!

Daniel’s vision was in perfect harmony with the dream he interpreted for King Nebuchadnezzar in Chapter 2 of a great statue which had a head of gold (Babylon), a torso of silver (Medo/Persia), loins of brass (Greece), legs and feet of iron (Rome).

Notice how the teeth of the Final Beast were the same material as the legs in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream: iron.

But this new “Holy Roman Empire” knew she had been predicted in Scripture and went about wiping off her bloody fingerprints, leaving only faded clues behind.

The 1517 Reformation initiated by Martin Luther gave new light which explained that the entire office of the Papacy was anti-Christ.

The theme became very popular in the late Middle Ages among the Fraticelli, Wycliffites, and Hussites, who identified the popes with the Antichrist soon to be overthrown.  Luther was unwittingly in line with these sectaries, with one significant difference, however.

Whereas they identified particular popes, because of their evil lives, with Antichrist, Luther held that every pope was Antichrist even though personally exemplary, because Antichrist is collective: an institution, the papacy, a system which corrupts the truth of Christ.

That was why Luther could repeatedly address Leo X in terms of personal respect only a week or so after blasting him as Antichrist.⁴

The Jesuit-run Counter-Reformation began immediately upon Luther’s break.  Unable to destroy the movement by the brute force of the Inquisition’s burning pyres and instruments of torture, they embarked upon a new strategy to compromise and discredit Scripture.

Again, the keepers of Truth became an underground minority.

Despite their creation by Freemason William Miller, Seventh Day Adventists remained as the sole keeper of the torch of Luther.

Adventist scholar Uriah Smith confirmed these interpretations for us in the 19^th century.

Commenting on the prophecy that the little horn should “wear out the saints of the Most High,” Barnes, in his Notes on Dan.7:25, says: “Can any one doubt that this is true of the papacy?  The Inquisition, the persecutions of the Waldenses, the ravages of the Duke of Alva, the fires of Smithfield, the tortures of Goa, — indeed, the whole history of the papacy, may be appealed to in proof that this is applicable to that power.  If anything could have worn out the saints of the Most High, — could have cut them off from the earth so that evangelical religion would have become extinct, — it would have been the persecutions of the papal power.  In year 1208 a crusade was proclaimed by Pope Innocent III against the Waldenses and Albigenses, in which a million men perished.  From the beginning of the order of Jesuits in the year 1540 to 1580, nine hundred thousand were destroyed.  One hundred and fifty thousand perished by the Inquisition in thirty years.  In the Low Countries fifty thousand persons were hanged, beheaded, burned, or buried alive, for the crime of heresy, within the space of thirty-eight years from the edict of Charles V against the Protestants to the peace of Chateau Cambresis in 1559.  Eighteen thousand suffered by the hand of the executioner in the space of five years and a half, during the administration of the Duke of Alva.  Indeed, the slightest acquaintance with the history of the papacy will convince any one that what is here said of ‘making war with the saints’ ([Daniel 7] verse 21), and ‘wearing out the saints of the Most High’ (verse 25), is strictly applicable to that power, and will accurately describe its history.”  (See Buck’s Theological Dictionary, art., Persecutions: Oswald’s Kingdom, etc., pp.107-133; Dowling’s History of Romanism; Fox’s Book of Martyrs: Charlotte Elizabeth’s Martyrology; The Wars of the Huguenots; The Great Red Dragon, by Anthony Gavin, formerly one of the Roman Catholic priests of Saragossa, Spain; Histories of the Reformation, etc.) …

“The prince of the covenant” unquestionably refers to Jesus Christ, “the Messiah the Prince,” who was to “confirm the covenant” one week with his people. Dan. 9:25-27.  The prophet, having taken us down to the death of Tiberius, now mentions incidentally an event to transpire in his reign, so important that it should not be passed over; namely, the cutting off of the Prince of the covenant, or in other words, the death of our Lord Jesus Christ.  According to the prophecy, this took place in the reign of Tiberius.  Luke informs us (3:1-3) that in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, John the Baptist commenced his ministry.  The reign of Tiberius is to be reckoned, according to Prideaux, Dr. Hales, Lardner, and others, from his elevation to the throne to reign jointly with Augustus, his step-father, in August, A.D. 12.  His fifteenth year would therefore be from August, A.D. 26, to August, A.D. 27.  Christ was six months younger than John, and is supposed to have commenced his ministry six months later, both, according to the law of the priesthood, entering upon their work when they were thirty years of age.  If John commenced in the spring, in the latter portion of Tiberius’s fifteenth year, it would bring the commencement of Christ’s ministry in the autumn of A.D. 27; and right here the best authorities place the baptism of Christ, it being the exact point where the 483 years from B.C. 457, which were to extend to the Messiah the Prince, terminated; and Christ went forth proclaiming that the time was fulfilled.  From this point we go forward three years and a half to find the date of the crucifixion; for Christ attended but four Passovers, and was crucified at the last one.  Three and a half years from the autumn of A.D. 27 bring us to the spring of A.D. 31.  The death of Tiberius is placed but six years later, in A.D. 37.⁵

Who Is The Restrainer?

Now with the proper understanding we can return to our original question.

It was well understood be even “Church Fathers” like Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, (c. 155 – 240 AD)—better known to us as “Tertullian”.

Dealing with the eschatological section of Paul’s first Epistle to the Thessalonians, Tertullian asks: ‘What archangel’s voice, what trump of God, is now heard, except it be forsooth in the entertainments of the heretics?  ‘He also points out that in the second Epistle to the Thessalonians Paul bids them not be troubled by false prophets, who teach that the day of the Lord is at hand.  For that day shall not come, unless there first comes a falling away, and the appearance of Antichrist.  The Antichrist cannot, however, come until he who now hinders shall be taken out of the way.  The ‘one who now hinders’ is the Roman Empire.  ‘What obstacle is there but the Roman state, the falling away of which, by being scattered |^p210 into ten kingdoms, shall introduce Antichrist upon (its own ruins.)’⁶

The anti-Christ office of the Papacy could not materialize unless the military office of the Roman Empire first disappeared.

Learning Against Learning

So if the early Church knew Rome was the 4^th and Final Beast, and Protestants knew the Papacy was the anti-Christ, why isn’t it common knowledge today?

With Rome so clearly depicted as the 4th and final Beast of both Daniel and Revelation, Jesuits needed to disconnect Christians from that interpretation and they used Preterism and Futurism to do it.

Preterism is the idea that most of prophecy has already taken place.  It was concocted by a Jesuit.

Preterism was first advanced in 1604 by Jesuit Luis de Alcasar to destroy the Reformed Protestant teaching that the papacy was Mystery Babylon, the Great Whore and the historical Antichrist. …

Preterism wasn’t accepted by large groups of Protestants and an alternative interpretation of the End Times was put forth.

Futurism is more appealing in that it acknowledges that much of prophecy is yet future but it distracts from the 4th Beast and paints the anti-Christ as a man who suddenly appears just before the Tribulation and who stands alone, apart from any organization or system.

It, too, was fabricated by a Jesuit.

Francisco Ribera (1537-1591) of Salamanca, Spain, published a 500 page commentary on the grand points of Babylon and Antichrist, the object being to set aside the Protestant teaching that the Papacy is the Antichrist.  In his commentary, he assigned the first chapters of Revelation to the first century.  The rest he restricted to a literal three and a half years a the end of time.  He taught that the Jewish temple would be rebuilt by a single individual antichrist who would abolish the Christian religion, deny Christ, pretend to be God, and conquer the world.⁸ …

Ribera’s commentary laid the foundation for the greater structure of Futurism, which would be built upon and expanded by those who followed.  Ribera’s teaching was further popularized by Robert Bellarmine (1544-0621), an Italian cardinal and the most renowned of all Jesuit controversialists.¹⁰

After accepting the Jesuits’ Futurist System (and the Preterist System…) millenarian Protestants no longer saw Rome as a present but only a distant future threat.¹¹  We should also mention Irving’s system saw no hope of victory over the present forces of evil except “by the brightness of his coming” in the second advent. With no hope, why try to conquer all things for Christ? ~ Death of the Church Victorious, Ovid Need^{557 7}

Perhaps such a complete accomplishment seems impossible—no organization on Earth could so thoroughly control the understanding of almost all Christendom … could it?

“Unless those days were shortened, no one would be saved.  But for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.  Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ,’ or ‘There He is,’ do not believe it.  For false christs and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.  Listen, I have told you beforehand.” ~ Matthew 24:22-25 (Modern English Version)

UPDATE 29 March 2017, 01:31 PM, EST

The dichotomy and contrast between the old Mosaic Covenant and new Covenant in Messiah Jesus Christ can clearly be seen in this passage from Jeremiah where even physically circumcised Jews are called “uncircumsized”—

Jeremiah 9:25-26, (Modern English Version)
²⁵ The days are surely coming, says the Lord, that I will punish all who are circumcised and yet uncircumcised—
²⁶ Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and all who dwell in the wilderness who clip the hair on their temples; for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised of heart.

The meaning is clear: true Faith in YHWH (through His Son) is a radical change of the heart.  Righteousness is kept from within, not by memorization, legalism or rote.

1.  Perhaps “Shakespearian” would be better as King James I gave his Bible to Francis Bacon to edit and Francis Bacon was a Gnostic (the Freemason of his day) who was probably William Shakespeare.
2. Kindness: A Treasury of Buddhist Wisdom for Children and Parents, translated by Sarah Conover, Eastern Washington University Press (2001), p. 32
3.  A.D. 70 Titus Destroys Jerusalem, Christianity Today, Issue 28: 100 Most Important Events in Church History, 1990
4.  Here I Stand: The Life of Martin Luther, Roland H. Bainton, Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, New York (1950), p. 111
5.  Daniel and the Revelation, Uriah Smith, Review and Herald (1897), pp. 156-157, 269-270
6.  The Theology of Tertullian, R.E. Roberts, Epworth Press, London (1924), p. 161 [digital] 7.  Illuminati Unmasked, Johnny Cirucci, CreateSpace (2015), pp. 185-186, 187

Jewish Patriot Emanuel Josephson, writing in 1968, brilliantly put it all together from banking to the Bolsheviks and from Secret Societies to the Society of Loyola. Most astutely, Josephson described how Jewish bankers were used as an end-around by their crafty Vatican masters to allow the appearance of piety while still cashing in on currency manipulation. …

Rome’s successor, the Holy Roman Empire, dissimulated its interest in money and its power. This was in accord with its professed tenets of Nazarene, theistic Communism. …

Thus theistic, Nazarene Communism, and the “modern” religion that goes by the name of Communism and is supposedly atheist, both are basically super-capitalist and both mask their avid grab for money and wealth.

Title to all wealth was vested in the Church and in its champion “knights,” who at the same time assumed the role of so-called “protectors,” much like the present-day “labor leaders” of their vassals whom they mercilessly enslaved and looted.

Both Churchmen and lay knights used the despised Jews for the conduct of their usurious financial operations, in order to avoid “sinning” and the death penalty that it involved.  The Jews proved very useful and handy for that purpose.

Scapegoating Jews has been such a successful agenda that those who portend to speak against governmental tyranny are crying out for a “Final Solution”.  Rockstar-turned-2^nd Amendment defender Ted Nugent recently published this post on Facebook:

I recently had an exchange with an internet personality who came forward to me as someone who promoted and appreciated my work.  Our correspondence was eye-opening as I was exposed to the depth of this rationale—

I don’t know how familiar you are with ancient (Gnostic) cosmogony or the Nag Hammadi material (being a Christian it *should* be right up your alley): John Lash’s Metahistory site is a good place to start. Being ostensibly Abrahamic, Jews and Jesuits (and a couple of others) both spring from the same diabolical root, which I believe to be extraterrestrial/extradimensional—and the Gnostic warnings about the pernicious mind-parasitism of the ‘Archons’ matches the MO of Jew and Jesuit alike. On the Jews: there are very few ‘racial’ Jews.  Of the 13 million total, up to 90% are Eastern European Kazarians who converted from paganism in the 8th century—for an easier life.  I believe ‘true’ (shem-itic) racial Jews are not truly human, as they gave up at least part of their spiritual (soul) development WAY BACK, in favour of material acquisition (this [Faustian] surrendering allowing the demonic intrusion of alien control). Their ages-old assault on the (true) Aryan race—Iran (‘Land of the Aryans’), Yizidis, the so-called ‘Islamic Invasion’ of Europe (see Barbar Spectre), etc.—their cold, non-human Palestinian genocide, the targeting of Palestinian infants, etc., are symptomatic of an alien psychopathic psychology. The misogynistic nature of monotheism also strongly suggests that there is a greater, more metaphysical game in play than mere political manipulations (?) There are still many, many pieces to this puzzle that I confess I don’t have and, like climbing the Masonic pyramid, each step brings new revelations that overturn the preconceptions that seemed so ‘sensible’ lower down (I’m sure you know that feeling).

I have to admit that I found this rather shocking as this gentleman had posted one of my interviews on his site and the page was very professionally done.  How could he have fallen to such wild speculation culminating in such naked prejudice? I smelled the Jesuits yet again. Of course modern Israel is a Luciferian fabrication created by, for and through them for the express purpose of throwing Bible-believing Christians off the track of understanding Rome as the 4^th and Final Beast.  With a rebirth of Israel, Christians were now given the Jesuit-fabricated doctrines of Dispensationalism, Zionism and the Pre-Tribulation Rapture. Not only did I cover this in my book but I went into more detail in a recent day-long presentation at Calvary Chapel, Lima, Ohio (Pastor Mike Spaulding and his family remain a blessing me and mine). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sopHA3ICZZs Yes, many “non-Jews” were needed to be convinced they were Jews in order to populate this new Luciferian fabrication called “Israel” but instead of understanding and compassion, this information has been warped into justification for action. With the extreme and outrageous dehumanizing of “Jews” the next Holocaust is clearly on the horizon.  How we are to test for bloodline purity is something I assume the next Joseph Mengele will tell us.  At least one puff-piece from the UK Guardian was forced to admit that Mengele and his Nazi comrades escaped Europe to hide in an old Argentinian Jesuit mission, but the rest of the story is “more fiction than fact.” I’m sure we can absolutely rely on newspapers to tell us the complete and total truth, why wouldn’t they? Normally, I’d write off someone espousing such an extreme and disconcerting view but I took the time to respond and asked this gentleman if he minded me posting our exchange and he said he didn’t mind—

I’m always wary of getting too far with what I know to be the Truth as it’s quite clear from my research that the Jesuit-controlled Papacy rules the world from behind all her secret societies. If that’s true, I expect to be fully monitored and controlled and, if necessary, harassed and stopped. That’s where my “misogynist monotheistic” Faith comes in.  There is nothing I can possibly do to protect myself from an entity that controls all of the world’s intelligence agencies, banks, armies and governments.  But I can appeal to the Being who has the power to wipe them all out with a single thought based upon my relationship with His Son.  My theory is; as long as I make Jesus Christ the ultimate Authority in my life, and discipline myself from what the Bible has told me “sin” is, I can have immunity to be a legitimate Truth seeker—to poke the very Dragon, himself. To date, this theory appears to be a valid one. “Gnosticism” in its purest form is “salvation through secret knowledge” but what it has devolved into is simply “raw power by manipulating knowledge.”  As a result, gnostics (Jesuits at the top controlling the secret societies) have created a system of manipulation that reigns supreme but is built upon keeping the world’s populace asleep and oblivious to its machinations.  It works flawlessly but is also a house of cards. You have several rationalizations for your view—

* “Jews” have sold their souls * “Jews” are manipulated by extradimensional beings * “Jews” are assaulting the Aryan race * “Jews” aren’t true “Jews”

Each premise of yours is next to impossible to prove or disprove so zetetic examination is impossible.  Without zetetic examination, one can not subject this world view to the Scientific Method; observations leading to an hypothesis proven by experiments where variables are isolated and observations are found to repeat. Therefore, stripping each premise away you’re left with one thing: ugly, primordial racism.  There is no reason or rationale to prejudice, just nonsensical hatred. What stands behind my world view is volumes of names, places and dates and I am very confident in them as a result. This has been fascinating for me and because I respect the work I’ve seen from your site I’ve invested time and effort in writing back to you.  If you don’t mind, I’m going to keep you anonymous and blog this.

I immediately got a response which told me they were okay with me posting this and that my attempts to dissuade them from this very near and real future catastrophe were of no use. The Whore of Babylon, the Dragon of Rome, is closing in on her victims (any who oppose her will be close behind).

Well, according to Daniel 9, there are one or two minor events that need to occur before Christ returns like the appearance of the anti-Christ, his 7-year covenant with Israel, the Tribulation and the Abomination of Desolation.

Hey…I’m only human.

Have you put serious thought into the idea that Christ’s Return in immanent?

An accounting for how we live our lives is guaranteed.

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.”

“For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My Sake will find it.”

“For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?  Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?”

“For the Son of Man is going to come in the Glory of His Father with His angels, and will then repay every man according to his deeds.” ~ Matthew 16:24-27, NASB (capitalization added to correct disrespect)

As I continue to try and alert the Body of Christ to the real dangers attacking them, I’m finding that the majority of “Christian” ministries aren’t interested in truly feeding the Flock.

Status quo is lucrative and safe.  Real Truth is neither.

However, it states very clearly in Ezekiel 33; a watchman who sees danger and keeps his mouth shut to it, is personally responsible for the harm he or she does.

But let’s talk about some of these events that are supposed to occur before the Return of Christ; particularly the desecration of the Temple—the Abomination of Desolation.

What is truly disconcerting is how many Christian leaders are telling their flocks that they have no need to prepare for difficult times ahead.  They misquote I Thessalonians 5:9 “the Church is not appointed to Wrath” as proof that Christians will not endure the Tribulation.

This is a heretical misuse of what Paul is saying.  Simply examining just the second half of the verse explains why and more context destroys using it in such a manner completely.

…let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.  For G-d has not destined us for Wrath, but for obtaining Salvation through our L-rd Jesus Christ, who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him. ~ I Thessalonians 5:8-9, NASB (capitalization and abbreviation added for clarity and to correct disrespect)

Clearly, Paul considers the Wrath of G-d to mean the damnation of the soul.

Trial and tribulation are a guaranteed part of Christian living.  Any “Christian” who isn’t enduring tribulation should fear for their very Salvation.

His disciples said to Him, “See, now You are speaking plainly, and using no figure of speech!  Now we are sure that You know all things, and have no need that anyone should question You.  By this we believe that You came forth from G-d.”

Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe?  Indeed the hour is coming, yes, has now come, that you will be scattered, each to his own, and will leave Me alone.  And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.  These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world!” ~ John 16:29-33 NKJV, (abbreviation added for respect)

I have warned you repeatedly to prepare.

The Rapture Isn’t Coming For You, But These Things Are

Prior to the complete fabrication of the “pre-Tribulation Rapture” in 1830 by John Nelson Darby, all of Christendom’s greatest minds were teaching that the Body of Christ will endure the anti-Christ and his Tribulation.

Cyrus Scofield was a convicted felon abandoned his Catholic wife in order to immortalize Darby’s heresy seemingly clear of Jesuit influence (which I uncover in my book).  His Scofield study Bible is responsible for several grievous heresies in Christendom such as;

1. The pre-Tribulation Rapture.
2. Dispensationalism; YHWH only deals with Believers or Israel separately.
3. “Magog” identified as Russia; to include incredibly bankrupt argument that descendents of Rosh sound like “Russia”.
4. Misplaced fixation on the secular prosperity of Israel; how can the Prodigal Son come home if you keep sending him money?

Although one would think giving too much help to political Israel isn’t in the same class as sowing dangerous disinformation in the Body of Christ but it has spawned heretics like John Hagee¹ who claims that Israel is without condemnation because Yeshua never claimed to be their Meshiach.

Hagee actually seeks out charlatans like Benny Hinn to encourage them as they fleece the Flock.

ABOMINABLE

Christians know that a key event will occur to signal the end of our era; the Abomination of Desolation.

“Therefore when you see the Abomination of Desolation which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the Holy Place (let the reader understand), then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains.  Whoever is on the housetop must not go down to get the things out that are in his house.  Whoever is in the field must not turn back to get his cloak.  But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!  But pray that your flight will not be in the winter, or on a Sabbath.  For then there will be a great Tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will.  Unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the Elect those days will be cut short.” ~ Matthew 24:15-22, NASB (capitalization added for clarity of unique events or groupings)

The Abomination of Desolation has to do with a desecration of “the Holy Place”: the Temple.

This is confirmed by Daniel in regards to what happened to the first Temple.  It was desecrated by the Greek Emperor Antiochus IV (Epiphanes)—

Forces from him will arise, desecrate the sanctuary fortress, and do away with the regular sacrifice.  And they will set up the Abomination of Desolation. ~ Daniel 11:31

Around 168 BC, Antiochus Epiphanes responded to a Jewish revolt in brutal fashion; he slew the High Priest, Jason, murdered tens of thousands of Jews—men, women and children—and erected an image of Zeus that looked like him inside the Temple.  Some accounts say he also slew pigs inside the Temple to further subjugate the Israelites.

As a result, Christians have been waiting for countless generations to see a third Temple erected in Jerusalem to fulfill this prophecy.

But what if we’re looking in the wrong direction?

In Revelation 13, a beast rises up out of the sea and is given all power and authority by the Dragon (satan).

Another beast rises up out of the earth and the beast of the sea gives the beast of the earth authority to slay anyone who doesn’t worship the beast of the sea nor take his mark.

The beast of the sea receives a deadly head wound but miraculously (magically?) comes back to life.

The beast of the earth creates an image of the beast of the sea and brings it to life.  How is that possible?

The word “image” is εἰκών (eikṓn), Strong’s NT 1504:

(from 1503 /eíkō, “be like”) – properly, “mirror-like representation,” referring to what is very close in resemblance

Did the beast of the earth create a clone of the beast of the sea?

Does the beats of the earth have advanced technology and a terrible military that he wields on behalf of the beast of the sea?

The Temple, itself, is nothing more than a type of the Son of G-d—through it, mankind is made righteous and able to stand in His Perfect Presence.

Jesus answered them, “Destroy this Temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”  The Jews then said, “It took forty-six years to build this Temple, and will You raise it up in three days?”  But He was speaking of the Temple of His Body.” ~ John 2:19-21 NASB, (capitalization added for clarity and respect)

Cloning is a demonic fact of our existence.  Arrogant, unscrupulous “scientists” do it regularly now.

The Book of Genesis repeatedly states that the organisms created by YHWH reproduce “after their own kind”.  What happens when this Divine process is abrogated?  What life force animates such a being?

We receive an inclination by what happened in Korea, two years ago.  A cloned cow attacked its creator, Professor Park Se-pill of Jeju National University.  It broke 5 of his ribs and cracked his spine.

Is it possible that the Abomination of Desolation will be an attempt to clone the Body of Jesus Christ and animate it with satan, himself?

Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the Apostasy comes first, and the Man of Lawlessness is revealed, the Son of Destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the Temple of G-d, displaying himself as being G-d. ~ II Thessalonians 2:3-4, NASB (capitalization added for precision, abbreviation added for respect)

There are relics that could very well have traces of Christ’s DNA.  One of them is the Shroud of Turin.  Although hotly contested as to its legitimacy, many sincere Christians and even secular scientists believe the image of the shroud was imparted to it in a manner that changed its molecular density and made it three-dimensional.

Today, the Shroud is controlled by Rome.

The Lance of Longinus—also known as the Spear of Destiny—is supposedly what the Roman soldier used to insure Christ was dead by thrusting into His Side.  Legend states that any who wield the spear can not be defeated.  Many speculate that it, too, is held by the Vatican.

TWO BEASTS REVEALED?

Revelation 13:1-4 tells us that a beast rises out of the sea with 10 horns and 7 heads.

The sea is often used in Scripture to speak of people, so this beast rises in popularity to represent a great many people around the world.

Of its seven heads, one had receives a terrible wound but is healed and comes back to life.

Is Rome this beast and is Jorge Mario Bergoglio—now “Pope Francis”—this final head?

Bergoglio, himself, has stated shortly after taking office that he’ll be “dead in two or three years.”

This coincides perfectly with the astounding astronomical signs I mentioned in my previous column.

The second beast that empowers the first rises up out of the earth.  If it’s not rising up out of the people, what is it rising up from?

In Genesis 6 we read of creatures that are not created “after their own kind” but result from an aberrant joining of man and angel.  The offspring are the נְפִילִים (naphal) or “fallen ones” but the Greek Septuagint translates them γίγαντεσ, gigantes which means “earth born”.

During Barack Obama’s Middle East Apology Tour in 2009 (where he went to great lengths to apologize for America), while visiting Egypt, some remarked how similar he looked to Egyptian Pharaohs like Akhenaten.  As researchers began to dig deeper, they started to ask, “Is Barack Obama a clone of an Egyptian Pharaoh?”

Revelation 13:7 tells us of the beast that rises from the sea;

And it was given unto him to make war with the Saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all tribes, and tongues, and nations.

As Foxe’s Book of Martyrs can attest, no power has tortured and murdered Christians like that of Rome.

But my book attests that, truly, Rome is the authority that rules the world from behind the scenes.  The banks in London, slave labor in China and military might of America—all are controlled by the Jesuits.

Through the CIA, the Jesuits have unleashed the Sword of Muhammad—a sword they created—and now wield it against Christians all throughout the Middle East, enacting a literal genocide upon them.

While Western Christians sit back fat, dumb and lazy, waiting for the third Temple to arise and/or the Rapture to come take them, are the two beasts of Revelation 13 already upon us?

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I submit to you that unprecedented levels of evil are being witnessed to around the world, caught by modern technology, reported on via the fringe of local and alternative media but not receiving the coverage it deserves because of this reason: it is the buildup of evil presaging the Return of the King of kings.

When He came to the other side into the country of the Gadarenes, two men who were demon-possessed met Him as they were coming out of the tombs. They were so extremely violent that no one could pass by that way. And they cried out, saying, “What business do we have with each other, Son of G-d? Have You come here to torment us before the Time?” ~ Matthew 8:28-29

Perhaps that “Time” is nigh at hand.

“MADNESS” IN THE FAST LANE

In May of 2008 Swedish twins Ursula and Sabina Eriksson were noticed by the ever-watchful eyes of the U.K. Police State making their way down the meridian of the M6 motorway. Perplexed as to why the two would be in such a precarious position between two very fast-moving arteries of traffic in the middle of the day, dutiful surveillance camera overseers quickly dispatched uniformed patrol-persons to the scene. Upon seeing the representatives of authority, the two sisters did something astounding: they threw themselves into traffic…repeatedly. As the sisters were being confronted by the police, they spit and writhed and cursed, breaking free and running again into traffic until Ursula was struck by a tractor-trailer and Sabina crushed the hood and windshield of a speeding car with her body and head. Officers broke their shock only to find that, in spite of her crushed legs, Ursula was still alive. After some 15 minutes of unconsciousness, Sabina awoke and immediately rushed into traffic again. After six officers restrained her, she screamed in anger calling out for help to the police (although it was the police who were restraining her).

While Ursula recovered from what should’ve killed her instantly, Sabina was released from the hospital only a day later. She was charged with striking a police officer and the judge deemed that she had served her term in the custody of State healthcare. Although she was much more calm in police custody, officers only drew a blank stare when the asked her if she was concerned for the welfare of her sister.

Sabina then wandered the streets of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire with nothing more than a clear plastic bag filled with all she had and wearing her sister’s yellow/green raincoat. She came upon Glenn Hollinshead and Peter Molloy who were out walking Hollinshead’s dog. She seemed nice enough but admitted she needed a place to stay. Out of an apparent gesture of Samaritan good will, Hollinshead took her in for the night though Molloy was troubled by her seemingly drug-induced paranoia and schizophrenia (while in the hospital, neither narcotics nor alcohol were found in Ericksson’s bloodstream). The next day, Hollinshead was stabbed to death by Sabina for his trouble—five times with a kitchen knife.

Psychologists claimed that Sabina was being influenced and even controlled by the influence of her sister and that she suffered from rare forms of dementia (though, at her trial, she was lucid and refused to comment on the motivations behind her behavior).

There is, in fact, a Biblical precedent for the odd relationship between the two sisters where two are not of their own mind yet one seems the dominant, driving force; and it is the one I have previously mentioned—the exorcism at the Gerasene cemetery. The account in Matthew 8 lists two men involved yet the accounts in Mark 5 and Luke 8 list only one. Is that because one was dominant and the other orbited around him, just as seemed the case with the Ericksson sisters? Gadara was a Decapolis of some import and, therefore, a citizen could be considered either a “Gadarene” specifically or a “Gerasene” more broadly. Here again, Matthew uses the one term, Mark and Luke use the other.

In August of 2010 the BBC aired a documentary entitled Madness in the Fast Lane chronicling these events but at no point did anyone in the documentary look to a spiritual explanation for the bizarre behavior of the twins.

It is interesting to note that one news source stated that Sabina Ericksson turned to Christianity while serving her time in prison as a means to cope with what had happened to her.

Good move.

“MADNESS” BECOMING MORE AND MORE PREVALENT

At least Sabina Ericksson was given the time to change the destination of her eternal soul. The man whom Miami police caught naked and hunched over, chewing on the face of his victim wasn’t so lucky. Although he wasn’t disturbed in his activity by the first shot, several more ended his life.

It is not known what the spiritual disposition was of the woman who gouged out the eyes of her 5 year old son but reports claimed she appeared to be in shock after recovering from the narcotic-induced “ritual” she was in. Such a heinous crime south of the border accented another similar “cult” atrocity regarding the ritualistic sacrifice of two 10 year old little boys and a 55 year old woman as an offering to “Santa Muerte” or “Saint Death”.

Apparently, a second chance was given to an Arizona man who traveled all the way to Wisconsin to “score” with a girl he met online. After getting intimate with his long-distance lover, she and her roommate then attacked him, stabbing and slashing him some 300 times. Extensive pagan and satanic literature were confiscated from the apartment after the man was able to make an escape.

In South Africa, a teenage girl was burned alive while one of the teen boys conducting the ritual cut another girl’s hand and forced it to bleed onto a Bible. The girl later died from her injuries.

In a testimony to the death of manhood, a Japanese man had elective emasculation conducted on himself and then sold his gentiles as food for 100,000 yen.

But, perhaps, it is the abuse, torture and murder of children and infants that gives the devil his greatest joy and articles abound of insane levels of barbarism towards that end. In 2005, the bodies of three killed fetuses were found wrapped in plastic next to various Catholic icons in a cardboard box at the Bogota, Columbia international airport. It was surmised that they were destined for a “ritual” to be conducted somewhere in the United States.

A husband and wife team of “doctors” were aborting unborn babies and feeding them to their dogs to hide the fact that they were conducting “gender selection” abortions in India. Fortunately for them, they were of influence and not hassled extensively by the police. Too bad they weren’t conducting abortions in the state of Kansas while it was under the tender care of governor-ette Kathleen Sebelius. She has a special place in her heart for those who can pull a fully formed baby out of the womb, hold the child in their hands and then ruthlessly murder her. That’s why she was chosen by Barack Hussein Obama in a sick practical joke on the American people to be their “Health and Human Services” Secretary. Fortunately, 9 Republican senators joined the mass of Democrats to confirm her and make her reign of terror that much more powerful.

Not having his own dogs to feed, one Kansas “abortion doctor” (a phrase about as oxymoronic as “compassionate Communist”) simply ate the fetuses himself. Why not? This was during the Golden Age of Slaughter Sebelius.

Coming in a very close second in the Planned Parenthood Hall of Fame is Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortionist who forced girls who were having second thoughts to go through with the grisly procedure by physically abusing them, then pulling out fully-formed babies and shoving a pair of scissors into their little spines as he held them.

The problem these incarcerated individuals have accrued is that they are not members of the elite. Were they, they would be able to conduct their atrocities quietly and with impunity.

THE EATERS OF CHILDREN

As I have chronicled in a previous two-part series, there is a cabal of elites composed of bankers, billionaires and intelligence agency bureaucrats that run the affairs of men and they mask themselves under the cloak of “democracy” and “national security” but their make-up and agenda are so sinister that I call the lot of them “Luciferians”. Either directly or indirectly they serve the agenda of satan (and I have been aghast to learn how many of them willingly and directly serve the Author of Lies).

The Luciferians, like their master, are the complete opposite Jesus Christ and those who worship Him (though, unlike the book of Mormon, the Bible clearly states that the devil is not the equal of the L-rd of lords). Whereas Christians are marked by the extreme Love of Christ and deep compassion for the innocent and the vulnerable, Luciferians are marked by vile hatred of the vulnerable and the dependent. They take great pleasure in using children as tortured sexual play-things:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ByOVSGWIQE

—and when they’re done torturing them, the kill them…and eat them. Yes, the bodies of little babies ground into fine powder is a great medicinal breakthrough for those in the upper-strata who can afford them. But it’s much more fun to break out the little bodies, roasted and wrapped in special golden foil as appetizers at those special Luciferian shindigs.

As I’ve told you before, the lifestyles of the über-rich are radically different from anything that you could imagine. They are controlled, mind, body and soul by the forces of evil.

What they are doing, involuntarily and purposely, is literally opening the gates of Hell. Every little baby slaughtered on the altar of Moloch cracks that interdimensional portal open that much more. We are fast approaching the time where these evil forces will have ultimate power over the entire Earth. Every new breakthrough in technology brings us closer to a completely controlled authoritarian Police State, ripe for the iron-fisted rule of a single, fascist dictator. The emissaries of satan are getting bolder with each passing day.

Whose side will you be on when the Man of Perdition appears? —Unless he already has.

ARE THE TRUMPETS SOUNDING?

Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. ~ I Corinthians 15:51-52

Weird and unusual sounds are being reported and posted all over the internet. Some are fabricated YouTube hoaxes but others are being reported on by news agencies after receiving hundreds of calls from distraught citizens. Misinterpreted natural phenomena? The product of some new governmental PSYOP weapon treasonously used on the domestic populace?

Or something altogether different and monumental?

A powerful prophecy can be found in the Book of Micah that states, when the Assyrian appears, a coalition of nations will be used by Almighty G-d against him. Is it possible that the United States can be so radically altered from the satanic suicide strategy its “leaders” have placed it on to be one of them?

Where will you be when that time comes? There can be no doubt that the forces aligned against the average citizen are overwhelmingly powerful and crushingly malignant. There will be no escaping The Machine unless you have some outside help. I can tell you where mine is…how about you?

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1) Throughout my walk as a Christian I have been frequently disturbed by how others, who call themselves “Christian” have so little respect for the Name of G-d. In the Time of Jesus Christ, Jews had such fear and reverence for the Name of G-d that they dared not speak it, instead calling Him only, “Ha Shem”, “The Name”. In fact, one of the most common Names of G-d, “YHWH” (known as “the Tetragrammaton”) is actually ineffable. There is no way to easily speak these 4 Hebrew consonants. Later, vowels were added for convenience but the names “Jehovah” and “Yahweh” are found nowhere in the Bible.
How often have you heard a Christian say the words “Oh my God!”? It is a vain (meaningless) usage of His Name and qualifies as blasphemy.
So, in an effort to draw the attention of Christians to this issue, I have taken the tradition of Orthodox Judaism which hyphenates the Name of G-d out of respect for that Name.

“Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.” ~ Jesus Christ, quoted in Matthew 24:34

Did Jesus give a false prophecy?

In the beginning of this chapter Jesus Christ explains the parameters and world events that are to take place before His Return; wars, earthquakes, famines, false christs and the complete destruction of the Temple — “Not one stone shall be left upon another.” (Matthew 24:2)

But the Temple wouldn’t just be destroyed, it would be desecrated in the Holy of Holies, per the Prophet Daniel:

Daniel 9:24-27
24 “Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.”
25 “So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress.”
26 “Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.”
27 “And he [the “prince” of verse 26: the anti-Christ] will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate.”

We could spend volumes, alone, on this amazing prophecy in the Book of Daniel known as “Daniel’s 70 Weeks” but what is immediately obvious is that, even here, Scripture does not follow an “ordered”, Western encyclopedic chronology but more of an Eastern poetic jumping around in time.

So can we then deduce that portions of the Prophecy are exact and portions of the prophecy are utilizing a rhetorical linguistic device?

What is a “generation”? The Greek term geneá [Strong’s NT:1074] and can be extrapolated to mean a literal generation, a nation or an era.

Perhaps it is meant to mean both.

Certainly, given that the nation of Israel was miraculously brought back to life in 1948 with a Declaration of Independence by Israel’s first Prime Minister David ben Gurion, the clock is still running on the “generation” that represents the Hebrews. However, there are some other aspects of this prophecy that are astoundingly specific.

Many scholars date the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ in the year 32 AD, utilizing some historical documents such as the Elephantine papyri.

According to the Roman-commissioned Jewish historian Josephus, the Temple was destroyed by Roman soldiers during the siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD against General Titus’ orders. Tradition has it that the heat of the fires that consumed the Temple melted the decorative gold into cracks between the stones. As a result, soldiers and looters literally took apart the structure leaving “not one stone upon another”.

Deuteronomy 2:14 sets a “generation” at exactly 38 years.