Persistence is an absolute necessity for the person who wants to succeed. I once read, “That by persistence, the snail reached the Ark.” History is filled with examples of people who were told they could never achieve their dreams but who achieved them anyway.
Billy Graham was informed by one of his Bible School professors that he would never make a preacher. Billy just kept on preaching. I’m sure that Bill Gates was probably told somewhere along the way that his idea called a computer would never work, but he just kept on dreaming and persisting.
So dear discouraged friend, just keep on working toward your dream. The fact that it is a dream means you have already seen it. You see it in your mind before you see it in your world. It’s just a matter of time till you see it in real time, if you just keep walking toward it. The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step, then the second, then the third and so forth. If you stop. It’s over. If you keep going, no matter how tough, you will make it.
As a preacher myself who posts free sermons online, I see a lot of good advice from others who preach. I heard a preacher once deliver a great sermon. At the core of what he shared was this, “You can’t fail, if you don’t quit.” I encourage you not to quit. You may have the towel in your hand ready to toss it. Stop! Don’t do it. Take a shower, use the towel to dry off. Get a good night’s rest. Tomorrow is another day.
Each day is a new opportunity. At the dawn of each new morning, yesterday lies in the past. It is behind you. What is vital is what is before you. You have the power to determine what is before you to a large degree. Your future is shaped by the choices you make today.
Persistence means you are making the right decisions over and over again. When you miss it, admit it. Make it right. Learn to say, “I’m sorry!” Learn to learn from your stumbles, blow ups and mistakes. I share a lot of truths I have learned through my free online bible study offered on sermon seedbed. You have your own list of lessons learned, just be sure to remember those lessons. They can help add to your persistence.
If today is not going well, make the decision to ride it out. It’s like jumping from a plane, once you have made the jump, you have to go with it till you land. Some days are like that. Do the best you can till you get your feet back under you. Once you survive today, then you can plan for a better tomorrow. Hope is so powerful. Hope is the gasoline that gives you the power to run the motor of persistence all the way to your dream.
Dear friend, “Do not”, let me say it again, “Do not give up!” You can succeed. You can fulfill your envisioned future. Before you do it, you have to first decide to do it. Once you decide to do it, you keep doing it until your faith becomes sight.
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“But his delight is in the Law of The Lord and on it he meditates day and night” (Psalms1:2)
What do you meditate on?
What do you really like?
What do you delight in?
What really gets you excited?
The spaces indicate a pause. Pause to really consider what is it that is really important to you. You do not need much time. If it is important to you then you have been thinking about it already. We do think on, wish for, dream about, study, plan or even meditate on what is important to us. The real question is did you say God’s Law? Are you preoccupied with doing what God desires you to do.
We call ourselves Christians. We say we are Disciples of Christ. We claim Jesus Christ as our lord and master. Yet are we consumed day and night thinking about what he would have us do?
Have you prayed the Lord’s Prayer recently. Have you said to God; Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. What has been your prayer recently? Do you pray for health, wealth, happiness, peace or what is your prayer.
Not many of us pray that we can be obedient to your word or that your will be done. Not many of us pray every day that we might decrease so that God might increase. But what ever we pray continuously about is what we meditate on.
Maybe we do not meditate on His Law day and night, but is His Law hidden within our hearts? It is important that His Law is a lamp unto our feet, guiding our path in righteousness. The truth is when His Law is hidden it does not always show itself when we need it. The only way we can be assured that we follow God’s Law and His Will is to meditate on it day and night.
Obedience is better than sacrifice. But being a Christian is more than just being obedient to the Law of God. We must have a intimate, personal relationship with God. To have a relationship with anyone is to know that person. One way to know God is to meditate on God.
Meditate on the great things He has done. Meditate on His love, mercy, grace, patience, faithfulness,etc.
Meditate even of His justice and judgment. “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.”
Then Meditate more about the benefits of having a relationship with God. Meditate on being a child of God, called, chosen, sanctified and separated.
If you ever choose to fast seeking a closer (intimate, personal relationship with God), that is an especially important time to retreat into a wilderness, ignoring all the cares of the world and meditating on God and His Law. As Jesus said, we should “seek first His Kingdom and His Righteousness…” That makes meditating on God and (God’s Law) a first priority in our lives. Not only during a fast. But, especially during a fast. The fast is a wilderness experience where its soul purpose is to focus or meditate on God, the object of our fast and prayer.
Finally, Meditate on His Will for your lives. Know that God has a plan for you. A plan to prosper you not to harm you. His plan for you is not found in fulfilling your own selfish desires. The Lord’s plan may not call for us accomplishing all that we want to accomplish. His plan for you is all about kingdom building. His plan for our lives is that His Will to be done on earth as it is in heaven. The gifts, abilities and talents God gives us are for us to share with our brothers and sisters. Our Gifts are to make disciples for Christ, baptizing them in the name of the Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit, and teach them to obey everything that Jesus commanded us. The head is to lead, the arm is for lifting, the eyes are for seeing, ears for hearing and feet for walking. No part greater than another. No part only serving its selfish desires. But all make a united body doing the Will of its Master.
Who is your master?
What do you meditate on Day and Night?
That is your God!
“Lord, may the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable to you..” (Psalms 19:14)
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People will often ask why so many prophecies are dual? It is: because making them dual causes a more profound understanding of either the message to be retained or the lesson to be learned. In addition, it is easier to anticipate the fulfillment of a prophecy during our time when you see an example of it in history.
Detailed prophecy generally has to be absorbed by a prophet and then passed on to its intended audience. The Prophet Ezekiel ate a book of prophecy (Ezekiel 2:8-Ezekiel 3:3). The Prophet John ate a book of prophecy (Revelation 10:1-11). The books were sweet in their mouths. But John’s book turned to bitterness when it reached the stomach. This exemplifies the fact that learning what will happen before it happens is fascinating and generally beneficial; however, there are negatives. Most likely, what a true prophet has to say will almost never be politically correct. A true prophet will not always have pleasant things to predict, unlike a fortune teller who will predict just about anything to keep her clients happy.
Prophecies can show us the ultimate in rewards that are gained after endurance, overcoming, and faithfulness. This perspective is, for the greater part, timeless. Even though prophecy by its meaning is predictive, prophecy without the relevant imperatives of character-building is like a play without a moral or a story without a point.
Judas is the one who betrayed Jesus for money (Matthew 26:15-16). It would have been better for Judas if he had never been born (Mark 14:21). Afterwards, Judas took a dive off of a high place with a fastener around his neck, exploding at the bottom with his bowels gushing out (Matthew 27:3-5, Acts 1:16-18). So, one twelfth of the disciples of Christ were replaced. Matthias replaced unfaithful Judas (Acts 1:25-26). By the same token, one twelfth of the potential 144,000 of Revelation chapter 7 will be replaced. The tribe of Dan (that could have had a population of 12,000) will be omitted. To make up the difference, Joseph will be added, resulting in Joseph and his son occupying two tribal positions instead of one (Revelation 7:4-8). One of the meanings of the word “Joseph” is “addition”.
Herod killed James and captured Peter because it pleased the members of the standard religion, consisting of, at that time, the non-Messianic Jews (Acts 12:1-3). Just as faithful Christians were threatened with death by the standard religion during the first century, and a different form of the standard religion during the dark ages, faithful Christians will be threatened with death by the standard religion at the end of man’s rule (John 16:2, Revelation 17:6). God’s people are told to come out of Babylon (Revelation 18:4). One sign of false prophets and false teachers is their willingness to try to make merchandise of God’s people (II Peter 2:1-3). Zechariah looked forward to a time during which there would be the absence of the Canaanite (Zechariah 14:21). The Hebrew for Canaanite is from “Chenaanee”, meaning merchant. Canaanite is simply a word for merchant just as Caldean is a word for astrologer. John wrote of a time in which merchants will weep and mourn (Revelation 18:11) all because Babylon will have been ruined (Revelation 18:2).
Sodom is symbolic of extreme wickedness (Genesis 13:13). Egypt, which had enslaved Israel (Exodus 1:13-14), is a type of sin. Old Jerusalem at the end of the age of man’s rule will be a combination of Sodom and Egypt, extreme wickedness and enslaving sin (Revelation 11:8). Just as Egypt is a type of sin, Pharaoh is a type of Satan. Pharaoh did not want to let the people of God escape from Egypt, the land of sin. By the same token Satan does not want to let the people of God escape from sin during the end time. Satan will have great wrath, knowing that his time is short (Revelation 12:12). And just as Moses and Aaron were two witnesses to truth as the Children of Israel were led out of Egypt, so also there will be two witnesses at the end time. There will be two witnesses prophesying three and a half years (forty-two months) (Revelation chapter 11). Just as Moses and Aaron were instrumental in seeing to it that the Children of Israel escaped from Egypt, the two witnesses will be instrumental in seeing to it that the people of God escape from sin and from Babylon.
Just as Paul was overcoming (fighting a good fight), finishing the course (enduring to the end), and keeping the faith (II Timothy 4:7), the final headquarters team ruling with Jesus will have been overcoming (I John 5:4-5, Revelation 2:26), enduring to the end (Matthew 10:22, James 1:12) and remaining faithful (Revelation 2:10, Revelation 17:14). The faithful individuals will have been mindful of a future reward and have embraced the promises (Hebrews 11:13-14). Both Isaiah and Paul remind us of a future time of ultimate rewards, which cannot be totally understood by the mind of man, a time so magnificent that eye has not seen and ear has not heard what God has prepared for those who love him and wait for him (Isaiah 64:4, I Corinthians 2:9).
While many will claim that the original creation of the planet happened 6000 years ago (an absurdity of mammoth proportions), it is a fact that humans were created about 6000 years ago. We have the genealogy all the way back to Adam. It is just under 6000 years into the past. The time is a rough estimate because, although Genesis and other books of the Bible provide us with genealogies and how old a man was when his son was born, there is the problem of factoring in fractions of years.
For example, Abraham was reported as being 100 years old when his son Isaac was born to him (Genesis 21:5). However, what does it really mean that Abraham was 100 years old? It means he was past his one-hundredth birthday. How far was he past it? We don’t really know. He may have been 100 years and 1 month old. He may have been 100 years and 5 months old. He may have been 100 years and 11 months old. The same is true of many who are listed in the genealogies. And this is the reason the time of the creation of Adam cannot be pinpointed with great accuracy. But we do know it was just under 6000 years ago.
To reconcile the fact of the age of the universe (about 13.5 billion years) and the age of man (around 6000 years) go to Gap Theories. Many Bible scholars would estimate it to be just under 6000 years because of the theory of the Sabbath of millenniums. Just as the re-creation took six days and the seventh was the day God rested, leaving us an example that we should also rest on the seventh day – so also there is six 1000 periods of time that Satan does his dirty work But the seventh 1000 year period will be a forced rest period for Satan (Revelation 20:2,3,7). Satan will be put into the abyss for 1000 years and then released. He will be forced to rest during that last 1000 years.
Just as the prophet Elijah pointed people to the real God during the time of Jezebel and King Ahab, there will be a modern day Elijah to point people to the real God in today’s world, extinguishing the influence of the end-time Jezebel.
For some more information about the prophet Elijah, go to Four Elijahs.
“All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be fit, thoroughly furnished unto all good works” (2 Timothy 3:16-17).
Wily Elder
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Bible study Small groups are essential part of christian church . Today, almost every church has its small groups. However, it is not at all a newly found concept. Jesus himself had his own small group of 12 people And although he had much larger community of followers, he invested majority of time and efforts in the lives of these few people.
Leading small groups can be one of the most rewardingexperience of your christian life. You can really impact your group members. Small group setting provides safer and much intimate environment for Christian fellowship and friendship. Today, we are going to discuss principles to effectively leading small group bible study. You may be leading students, married couples, men, women, teenagers, youth, or any age group, these principles remain the same. So, here are some of the suggestions for leading a group.
Know your audience. You must know your group members. Introduce new comers.
Select the topic. According to your group, you can select the bible passage. Try to maintain the continuity.
Prepare your notes in question – answer format. You must have possible answers ready in your mind. Use other resources like Bible dictionary , if you need to. Keeping notes is one of the most useful practice you can have, it can be helpful in future as well.
Adopt your own style. Don’t imitate anybody’s style, have your own style of leading.
Ask questions, if the group do not understand, rephrase the question, don’t try to explain everything.
Remember, you are bible study leader, not a preacher. Your goal is to let others talk and share!
Encourage the quiet one, their silence do not mean non-participation. Also, try to manage the dominant members.
If you don’t know the answer of any particular question, honestly admit it. Find the answers and share it next time. Remember, we are all here to learn.
Keep the eye contact. Don’t just concentrate on few members. Occasionally, ask questions to individual.
If the discussion goes side tracked by some question, bring the group back to the main idea. (Use your judgment, if there is an important issue, continue the discussion.)
Appreciate good answers . Everyone likes appreciation.
Be creative, visualize the picture in the passage. Use contemporary examples. Use maps, whiteboards, games, etc.
Don’t go overtime! 25-30 minutes of bible study is perfect. Sometimes, the faces of the members can tell you that its time to wrap up!!! If there is some important theological discussion going on, you can conclude bible study, but continue the discussion, so that those who need to leave can go.
Have conclusion in mind. Spend good amount of time in applying the word. Challenge your group.
I hope that these practical suggestions can help you to effectively lead your bible study group .
SCIENTIFIC PROOF THAT (GOD THE HOLY) SPIRIT EXISTS BY SIMON RICHARD LEE ABOUT THE BOOK Scientific Proof that (God the Holy) Spirit Exists is a brilliant mixture of both religious and scientific writing. It is developed in three parts, in a clear and discursive way.
In the first part, a fascinating theory about Spiritual Energy is provided. The starting point is that Spiritual Energy =mc2, just like physical energy. Its ‘sevenfold nature’ in the Bible and other Holy Books, occurs in trees, fountains and cubes. The Sevenfold ‘Holy’ Spirit of God exactly occupies the ‘extra seven dimensions of the Universe’ of the latest “string theories” of science.
He produces at least eight equally fascinating scientific theories about Spirit, comprising overall his (natural) science of the Holy Spirit.
These theories may all be verified in 2009 if the new Large Hadron Accelerator at CERN, Geneva detects that there are more than three dimensions of space.
In the second part, Simon Lee makes his own very special translation of some chapters of the Holy Books, commenting on them in a stimulating and personal way.
In the third part the problems related to the cashless system are explained.
The very last part of the book handles a new theory of – and cures for – all mental illnesses. In his fresh but rigorous style, the author proposes two new non chemical therapies.
This book is a journey into different worlds, where (natural) science and religion meet and walk side by side.
AUTHOR’s COMMENTS: – “This book is a complete self contained system”
“This revolutionary, challenging online book is powerful, very powerful reading, about life at this start of the 21st Century – with science, natural science, science and technology and the overall philosophy of science – “scientifici” – having this century seemed to very much overshadow – even disenfranchise – the bible, other Holy Books, religion, faith and spirituality. It is then about society, religion and spirituality, and so comes under the ‘religion & spirituality’ shopping category.
Kids talk about God existing or not, and what ‘They’ are like, while atheists demand scientific proof of God’s existence. In this hell raiser of a year of 2009 of an ever looming Second Great Depression, if it is not already here; the eyes of truth say that the Book of Revelation is quite right. As discussed in my own book, 7th Heaven will only come, once God (or is it US?) finally decides it is time to actually abolish ‘the root of all evil’ – money itself, and we all turn to live in a new heavenly society where everything is free – within reason. Indeed heavenly – 7th Heaven!
This radical new ‘the eyes of truth’ approach will definitely appeal to atheists and atheism as it is a spiritual, christian based employment of christianity and its history, and my own extensive but rather ‘alternative’ bible studys and studies.
These will be of particular appeal to USA Christians – the USA Body of Christ – Jesus – that is more deeply far-thinking about science and technology in relation to religion and faith – perhaps than people elsewhere. It used to be that books were the lingua franca but we are at the end of a first decade where they have fallen foul of computers and this Internet bug!
Evolutionary theory can easily be disproved. Nothing caused the incredibly complex constituents of cells to evolve to be that way – they must have been created spontaneously – this ‘principle of irreducible complexity’ is normally cited along with ‘intelligent design’ and the ‘anthropic principle’ as 3 main ways to prove God exists.
My own book goes further. My own book goes the whole hog of metaphysics, and ’system analyses’ the Mind and Holy Spirit of God in a ’scientifici’ way that will appeal even to ’scientifici’.
It argues that the Book of Revelation up to chapter 11 as well as the books of Daniel and 2 Esdras (the so-called Apocalyptic books of the Bible) are all precisely about modern science of the last two centuries. We find ourselves in a ‘Heaven666′ world as in those books, which my own book explores in great depth.
A ‘Heaven overshadowed by 666′ or ‘Heaven 666′ world. Where since 11th September 2001, Heaven seems remote compared to Big Brother of George Orwell’s ‘1984′ – dwarfed by a ‘666′ extent of control that has crept up on everybody with nobody excluded, in the name of ‘Security’ and ‘the War on Terrorism’ – backed by massive ‘Technology’.
My own book ends with tackling the serious modern plagues of domination by money or rather now the total lack of enough, over complex lives with too many choices to stay sane, and so mental illness. It offers tangible solutions to all of these. So overall its aim is to be a ‘the eyes of truth’ – at all costs – book.”
Simon Richard Lee OA, BA, MA, KCC (King’s College, Cambridge, England) Chartered Computing and Instrument Engineer – CEng MIEE MIET MInstMC
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Simon Richard Lee has also written some extremely moving spiritual poetry (also in hardback), his three inspirational memoirs, and a short career history; as well as editing and producing her book of inspirational memoirs for QT Saunders, a friend. Preview in full or order these books to download or in paperback (poetry also in hardback).
Would you like to know God’s will for your life? How do you discern God’s will for very important decisions of our life, such as marriage and career? Here are some of the simple bible based steps to find God’s will and purpose for your life. It provides practical steps in discovering God’s will for your life.
We must make Jesus our Lord and be genuinely willing to seek him. (Romans 12:1-2, Mat 6:33) This is the first step. There is no other alternative! We should be willing to respond as God would in any given situation. (Psalm 25:10) We should be ready to learn. (Psalm 25:9) We must spend time in his words daily. This is the most simple and powerful, yet most forgotten fact. Study the bible, not just read it. We should listen to God in prayer (Prov 8:34), not just giving a list of things, we need. So often, we are so much focused on what we need, that we miss what God wants from us!
We should completely rely on God and his plans for our life. (Prov 3:5-6) Someone has said, “How can you make God laugh?”, “Tell him your plans!” It is not to say, that you should not make any plans at all, but to seek his ways first. We should have clean and pure heart. (Psalm 66:18, 1 John 1:9) We should expect him to reply. God wants to speak to us, so listen for him. We should fear the Lord, this means hating evil and living God’s way. (Prov 8:13, Prov 9:10), it is harder to do what we hate. Fasting can also immensely help. It helps us to focus our thoughts on God. (Mat 6: 16-18)
All of above, are the fundamental principles for seeking God’ will for your life. But how about a specific decisions, like career, marriage, finances etc? There are three steps in finding God’s will for a specific decisions.
1) Word of God 2) Circumstances 3) Peace of Mind
You can verify your decision with confirmation of word of God, the circumstances and the inner peace that you may get. Now, I am not saying that God is going to show you, the name of the person you are going to marry, or the name of the company you are going to work with. But, if you sincerely seek his will, he will surely give you assurance about your decisions.
“…he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army. And the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they shall forecast devices against him” (Daniel 11:25). The king of the south will have a great and mighty army. However this great and mighty army will not be successful against the Antichrist. Why? Because they broadcast or “…forecast devices against him” Is this a peacetime propaganda being used against the king of the South? It certainly appears to win out over the great and mighty army of the king of the South.
We know that the Antichrist will come into power through flatteries (Daniel 11:32) more so than by the waging of war. He will use peace (not war) and destroy many just as the historical Antichrist, Antiochus, did (Daniel 8:25).
This last world dictator will have ten kings of ten nations as his power base (Daniel 7:24, Revelation 17:12).
“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” (Daniel 11:31).
What is this abomination that makes desolate?
“As such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries. But the people that do know their God shall be strong and do exploits. And they that comprehend shall instruct many. Yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days” (Daniel 11:32-33).
The Antichrist will even corrupt some of the people who were previously involved in the true worship of God. But those who continue to know God will be strong and do exploits.
What will the attitude of this Antichrist be?
“…the king will do according to his will. And he shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished. For that that is determined shall be done” (Daniel 11:36).
“…that day will not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped. So that he, as God, sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God” (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4). Notice the Antichrist will actually be in the temple of God where he obviously does not belong.
“Neither will he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god. For he shall magnify himself above all” (Daniel 11:37). He will exalt himself and become a self-made god or idol. He will not regard “…the desire of women…” There is speculation that he may be celibate or homosexual (or both).
“But in his estate will he honor the god of forces. And a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honor with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things” (Daniel 11:38). At first glance this may appear as out of character for the Antichrist who will set himself up as a god. However, in his lust for power, he may be willing to embrace the idolatry of this world’s power cabal. They worship their idols in private and appear as levelheaded businessmen and businesswomen in public. In public they shun idolatry. In private they practice idolatry.
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places]” (Ephesians 6:12).
“Thus shall he perform in the most strong holds with a wierd god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall slice up the land for gain” (Daniel 11:39). The Antichrist will practice idolatry at its deepest level to maintain his power base.
Daniel 11:40 shows a confrontation between the king of the north and the king of the south. The king of the south is ultimately defeated, resulting in the Antichrist moving into the countries that are close to Jerusalem (Daniel 11:40-43).
Is this talking about a future event?
Yes.
“When you therefore will see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (who ever reads, let him understand). Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains” (Matthew 24:15). These are the words of Christ. Make no mistake. Christ is talking about a future event. We may refer to a Greek king who was like a pre-type of the Antichrist. For more about this historical Antichrist see Antiochus Epiphanes – Pre-Type of the Antichrist. However, the main event is in the future, as is the end time Antichrist, the vile person spoken of by Daniel.
What is the abomination?
In Daniel 11:31 the word “abomination” means what in the original Hebrew?
shikootz – # 8251 – an abomination, Something that is abominable, used of impure things, of flesh of victims, especially of idols.
In Matthew 24:15 the word “abomination” means what in the Greek?
bdelugma – # 946 – abomination, detestable thing; literally anything that must not be brought before God because it arouses His wrath; of everything connected with idolatry.
In Matthew 24:15 what does the phrase “abomination of desolation” mean?
bdelugma tes epeymoseos – is probably the detestable thing causing desolation of the holy place; some interpret it as denoting the Antichrist.
Note that some interpret it as denoting the Antichrist, the Beast. In other words, there is the belief that the abomination of desolation may be the Antichrist himself! The Antichrist will set himself up as an idol. Apparently the pre-type Antichrist, Antiochus, set up an idol in the temple of God. The idol was a statue of Zeus. However, he had the face of the statue sanded down and reshaped so that the face looked like him (Antiochus).
In Daniel what does “desolate” mean?
shawmeyme – # 08074 – to be desolate, to be appalled, to be stunned, to be stupefied, to be awestruck, to be put to silence, to be devastated, to be ravaged, to be astounded/to be astonished.
So, it could be referred to as the detestable thing that creates astonishment. It will be the ultimate abomination. It will be the last gasp of an insult to God from the Antichrist who is pretending to be God. People will be stunned by this detestable thing.
The Antichrist will throw his weight around for only three and a half years. The nations of this world will have to be destroyed and rebuilt under the government of Christ, the kingdom of God. The corruption will be totally wiped out before Christ begins to start the fabulous 1000 years of peace. The Antichrist and the ten nations that existed as his power base will be destroyed.
“…in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever” (Daniel 2:44).
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